Specifically, 80–90% of Americans underestimate the prevalence of support for major climate change mitigation policies and climate concern. While 66–80% Americans support these policies, Americans estimate the prevalence to only be between 37–43% on average. Thus, supporters of climate policies outnumber opponents two to one, while Americans falsely perceive nearly the opposite to be true.
100%. that nothing will meaningfully change is obvious to anyone paying even the slightest attention, the causes are less so because we're inundated constantly with the lie that this is democracy.
the ambient but powerful sense that something is deeply wrong and can't easily be fixed extends to other issues. and if one is stuck in the framework that America is at least supposed to be a democracy, then there must be something nefarious misleading the demos. If you're a liberal, the people have been duped by Russian, Chinese, and/or Republican disinformation. If you're a conservative, the masses have been corrupted by wokeism, groomers, cultural Marxists, etc.