They are motivated to vote rat.
Then there are the teacher's, Prison, and health care worker's unions, that have a strangle hold on the state legislature, and then add the latino infiltration of the legislature, and it becomes a high and steep mountain to climb.
Given the numbers of the current participants, it is undoable.
However, there are more than 50% registered people who simply don't vote.
Granted, some are waiting for a more (fill in the blank) candidate, but mostly they are disinterested, demotivated, and generally accepting of the SQ.
Barring a strong, attention grabbing, eloquent speaking, point making fighter, willing to draw political blood, no change is on the horizon.
Trial lawyers and such ought not be left out of the mix considering they benefit most from generating lots of clients thru rampant implementation of new laws sending more and more to prisons.
The sublayers that support them are at best unwitting but willing coops.. For the buck. Your buck.
Obladi Oblada .. :-)