Most people of the population at any given time are passive. Go along to get along. One of the big reasons why there should NEVER be a universal franchise. It is the death of the Republic.
There is a reason the Iii%ers are named the Iii%.
It's worse than that. Anyone advocating effective, time proven, VIOENCE as a response to illegal/unConstitutional/despotic government is automatically either censored or written off as a kook/extremist.
When the Founders got tired of the King's crap, they didn't sit around and hope that the next election would fix things.