“Things are going to have to get much worse before enough Americans are motivated to get out to the polls and make a difference.”
A. Enough ill-informed are insufficiently unhappy with the status quo that an actual uprising of the informed, and sufficiently unhappy could simply be portrayed as domestic terrorism, and put down by increasingly militarized local “police” forces without much of a squall.
B. We may well be beyond the point where a revolution at the polls is possible. Again, so many ill-informed are insufficiently unhappy with the status quo that a massive showing at the polls by the informed, and sufficiently unhappy could simply be painted as voter fraud, offset by actual voter fraud, and summarily buried with the aid of a complicit media.
A late response to your posting, but it is certainly food for thought. I wonder if the Declaration of Independence would have been supported in 1776 had it been put to a vote of all residents of the 13 colonies of at least 18 years of age, including women. The Declaration was made by a group of representatives who spoke on behalf of a limited group of landholding, while males 21 years of age or over. The vote of women alone (many of whom would have opposed war out of the protective mother instinct) might have been fatal to any hope of armed resistance to Britain. A modern day revolution may have to proceed without the benefit of majority support in the population.