They will not, the system is working as intended, for those in power who want it that way, it has worked just fine for that demographic for the last five thousand years.
They want stupid and emotional people more than they want smart and rational people, this was the design goal after WW2, which was the last time they fiddled with the dial in a major way. WW2 scared the establishment so much, only thing that scares them more is WW3.
Mostly they were thinking about how to feed the war machine, dumb > intelligent when it comes to a numbers game, train your soldiers and feed them to the meat grinder of war. They only need a few intelligent but they needed far more dumb and that is what we have.
However the religious types like dumb people too, because they are easier to manipulate, the more followers they have the more power they have.
The whole abortion thing is nothing to do with female body rights and everything to do with creating an endless supply of dumb pliable soldiers or cult followers, it is a lovely lesson in psychotic control, the game isn't the game you think it is, you are simply fresh meat for the grinder, especially your children and their children's children etc. It is all connected, deprivation leads to desperation leads to easier to control, coerce and manipulate, same deal for dumb or lack of knowledge. It is a theme, a consistent one.
Crime would all but disappear, if the system was actually setup for helping to maintain equivalence rather than promoting unevenness, so it is the perfect tool to create jobs, a massive policing force of all sorts of kinds, an overly complex legal system with bizarre and byzantine laws that need to be interpreted in order to have judgement is not too dissimilar to a religious legal system and many times slower because procedures have procedures and everyone has technically broken some law or the other, they just don't know it, yet, endlessly wrangling over the meaning of words and intent, making it an opaque process to all but the few who can put up with the exceptions and special rules to somehow extract fair justice as it were.
The only paradigm shifting event that has upset the balance of this formulae from times of yore is the fact we now are in perhaps what could be called the fourth industrial revolution.
The need for pliant and dumb workers, worshipers and soldiers is diminishing fast because we have invented something even dumber than humans, mindless robots, they do the same work or close enough for no pay, no time off and never make a mistake, if they break they are replaced for minimal cost. Many people feel like they are a cog in a machine, many people feel like most of the work they do is senseless but they do it because they have bills to pay and options are limited, in theory the masses are free, but in reality the masses are slaves that are paid wages and given the illusion their vote means something.
In a way, the American Dream is actually a Skinner Box, some people are aware of the game, most are not, those that are aware are either part of it or they simply can not do anything about it if they feel that way, everyone that has tried has basically died an early death or forced into an early retirement.
Bit ironic that both extremes of the "left" and "right" basically want the same thing, which is to burn the system of hubris to the ground and remake it from scratch, what few real centrists are left with a voice that is still heard are basically being drowned out, the system is warped and broken, it can be fixed, but it won't be.
Apparently those are the rules and the reality.
Set your expectations/hope as appropriate.
Have a great day.