The Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States of America in 2008 seems to have not known Africa was a continent and seemed largely ignorant and apathetic towards having information about political topics, especially international ones. And she got a lot of support and defense for that position from people with anti-intellectual sentiments. “People” is of course a large and varied group. So when you say “people”, yes there are many people who are ignorant (and/or in self-denial, because it would be emotionally terrifying to their ego-identity to notice what’s actually happening in the world and that they are supporting it) and disinterested in US foreign policy, including many candidates and people in elected office. And there are far too many people who don’t know or care and/or who subscribe to comforting/inciting backwards notions offered by the corporate media. (I define “too many” as enough to possibly elect people such as Palin or Trump or Bachmann). And, there are others who are interested. Demographics and how systems of ideas and emotions permeate them are complex. In general, I think there’s far too much ignorance, apathy, and denial out there, greatly aided by the corporate media’s intentional narratives and omission of information. Similarly for policy, it’s too complicated and nearly meaningless to make blanket statements about what’s more important. Everything on the planet is linked in some way. Foreign policy involves the entire planet so it is more significant, but the level of influence is greater on domestic issues because of jurisdiction. For example, international trade treaties are massively significant, especially if they involve surrendering national rights to set environmental policies that affect international corporations (e.g. TPP), as are wars. But our government has more direct control over what happens here in the USA. I also think that there’s yet another sphere of politics which the media ignores because it is the tool of one faction, and that is international mega-corporations and the mega-rich versus ordinary people and their influence on governments and laws (and domination of the economy via wealth and property accumulation), in which the corporations have been increasing their domination for a long time. That last sphere seems more important that the national or international level, and less important that the level of environmental/ecosystem destruction and species extinction.