Lots of people are busy with their lives and don’t have time to connect all the dots
Keep them busy. Keep them entertained. Keep them afraid. Keep them ignorant. Profit.
Lots of people might also think that it’s perfectly normal in a democracy that you can buy your personal congressman, a supreme court judge or even a presidential candidate. This has a long tradition especially in the US and is probably kinda normalized by now for some strange reason. I think it can’t be wrong to emphasize that this is neither normal nor desirable in a functioning democracy.