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I would wager that some American demographics are a lot more selfish than others... I digress, because it doesn't change two facts:
Media has long manufactured consent (even lying in doing so 🤯, see: Iraq) for various attrocities committed by the united states government, regardless of popular support.
And second, the gutting of social security by bypassing budget approvals (infraction of sep. of powers) and kidnapping of students based on ideology and without due process (just authortarianism) are part of the same issue currently afflicting the US. If for some reason individuals drive a cudgel between these issues, they're more than either ignorant to or complicit with the issue they whatabout over.
But on that, given your anecdote is taken from a livestream chat, you may be underestimating just how much astroturfing takes place. We've known part of the playbook is to completely overwhelm our media intake, desaturating perceived potency of headlines and happenings. I would go as far to take wedging issues like that to be another tactic... as we've seen that strategy successfully work to drive flimsy democrats to 180 on LGBT rights.
If you assume the worst of the people you will need to work with, you won't get to influence them enough to understand the nature of the issue at hand