[ek_hornbeck]

That is easy to forget—most people are busy just living their lives and just don’t care about public policy stuff unless it is in their face and affects them personally and directly.

Exactly - that's why so many people either don't bother to vote or vote for the incumbent when things are going OK, and then vote against the incumbent (regardless of party) during a recession. Ideology or specific issues have little if anything to do with it.

[frank ballenger]

Apathetic, lazy and uninformed people——

But WE all have to live under socialism in 2021 if they don’t help us save America’s free republic in 2020. Irresponsible.

True story: A news report said:
A teenage girl urging her peer to go with her to the feminist hate-Trump demonstration in DC in January, 2017: I told her you’ve got to get active. This time it really is a Nazi being inaugurated. We have to march.”