That entirely ignores the exceptional voter suppression we have in this country. Not every non-voter did so out of apathy. A fuck ton of people don’t vote because we make it as hard as possible, especially for Black people in the south. That’s if we haven’t taken their right to vote away already.

If people took authoritarian threats seriously, they would crawl through broken glass to vote against it. They don't.

Not if their vote was insufficient to make any difference, e.g. due to gerrymandering, similarity between candidates or even the simple fact that there's no reason to suspect that others will do the same (one vote changes nothing).

I'm not denying that many citizens are in fact apathetic, since for decades now it really didn't make a difference which party won so they have disconnected from the process and are simply not informed enough to even know what's really going on. But

I deny that they are doing so primarily out of self interest, which is what @whstancil.bsky.social said previously, or to what @oneoneder.bsky.social added, that they have higher indifference towards authoritatianism than the actual voters.

Apathy is not the same as helplessness.