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In , Robert and Helen Lynd’s 1929 sociological study of Muncie, Indiana, the husband-and-wife team concluded that new leisure activities, forms of entertainment, and America’s increased emphasis on consumption had taken its toll on America’s democracy. These authors determined that the American public was largely uninformed and uninterested in political matters, preferring entertainment and consumer comforts to politics as a public focus. Democracy (requiring an informed public to succeed) was being undermined by American apathy and stupidity.