Unfortunately, this has led to polarization and dogmatism, because the people who are too lazy to think for themselves are also unlikely to acknowledge their ignorance. Look at most political topics and you’ll find a lot of people on the extremes, and very few voices in the center. I’m not trying to say that this represents the population as a whole, because I think most of the moderate voices have stopped wasting their time. Unfortunately, what you are left with are people who become dogmatic in their beliefs because they were unwilling to think and instead just believed what they were told, trying to claim that they are experts on something they know nothing about.