Absolutely. Willful ignorance is the style of the day, for all generations in the US. The only point at which I'd differ a bit with your description here is that they can be driven by fear. The Republicans use the fear method far too much, promising "horrendous" things that will happen if you vote for their opponent. He will take your guns away. He will appoint "death panels" to decide who has to commit suicide. He will raise taxes (as if they never did the same.) He will turn your children into Muslims and enforce Shariya law on them. And so forth, and so on. They have become the masters of the negative campaign, never showing any concrete plans or promises, just threatening what is bound to happen if they are not elected.

And then, once they are in office, they continue to use fear. Homeland Security is terminology drawn straight from NAZI Germany, where it was used in the same way to terrify the population into cooperation for fear of the faceless enemy who would otherwise infiltrate and destroy them. And we see people peacefully lining up to submit to every outrage that the government wants to force upon them in the name of Homeland Security, from strip searches to phone taps to having their personal mail and phone calls monitored (all without warrants or cause.)

On second thought, "morons and ignoramuses" may be too generous. "Sheep and lemmings" is more appropriate, I suspect.