People care to such a small extent that most don’t even bother to vote. Good luck running a healthy democracy like that.
The reality is, most people are very focused on their own problems. Complaining is free, but doing something about it is not.
The reality is, most people are very focused on their own problems. Complaining is free, but doing something about it is not.
That isn't supported by the facts:
> Approximately 240 million people were eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election and roughly 66.1% of them submitted ballots, totaling about 158 million.
In any case, it's true that the US has lower levels of voter turnout than other Western democracies, but it's unclear how to partition the reasons (less engagement/less caring? less notion of civil duty? less ability to get to the polls, including unfriendly work laws and voter suppression?)
The bottom line is that "most" eligible voters in the US DO care about something... but I'd suggest that the problem is that people care way too much about specific things that don't matter very much. If all the calories go into the hot button issues, then everything else is starved of oxygen. Our problem is perhaps one of too much emotional engagement.
That’s better than I thought.
And yeah, the deliberate voter suppression in the US isn't going to help either. A lot less people are going to stand in line for multiple hours, compared to the "five-minute stop on my drive to work" stuff Europe is used to - not to mention the whole hassle with voter registration and voter roll purging.
The laws and regulations already in place are there for a reason. Not something that could be easily changed with a new administration.
The system is made by generations to persist, whatever happens.