Doing door to door political canvassing for progressive candidates shows the same general trend. People are angry and want something different but few, for a variety of reasons, get engaged. The one positive is a few more people in the current and upcoming cycle seem motivated to vote, “even if for a lump of dirt”, rather than retain many of our current conservative elected representatives. Prior elections, including 2016, seemed to have more unmotivated and disengaged voters and they would respond openly that they simply “don’t care” and won’t vote. I can’t verify the root cause but that was my “unofficial” statistic in a very progressive county of a red state.

Maybe they simply cannot take any time off as mentioned here but I have heard many other excuses.

Can we save our democratic experiment of a nation at the polls and via activism … maybe. Will it still be too late because Mother Nature is pretty disgusted with us humans … almost certainly.