Whats worse, having 63 million people vote for a Nazi, or having 100+ million people who dont care enough to do anything about it?
Most Americans pay zero attention to politics or even the news and only tune in once every four years to pick a president. They have been conditioned not to talk about politics, not to care about politics, and interpret everything everybody says as being hyperbolic and reactionary.
I don't even begin to know how to fix this problem. I actually remember a commercial when I was a little kid that played on Nickelodeon during election season that always made me want to vote when I got older. But when I turned 18, I didn't, because voting was confusing and inconvenient.
What actually made me vote for the first time was how much I hated our governor in the 2014 midterms. I didn't even know who the people on the ballot were and just voted for Democrats and Independents at random.
I didn't get properly and enthusiastically activated until 2016. I did it because the prospect of a fascist Nazi president was the scariest thing in the world to me and I wanted to be part of history and elect the first female president.
But hardly anyone else I talked to in-person felt that way. Everyone else was "over it" and just wanted it to be over because they hated them both and politics don't matter.
As I have been many times before, it made me ashamed of my fellow Americans. But I was no different not that long ago. The things that motivated me, apparently, were not enough for everyone else.
