” On the other hand, supposedly for many civil wars relatively small minorities were involved, so who knows.”
The American Revolution only had a small percentage of enthusiastic support among most people.
You say that the ones who really care are small in number, and that is true. People who DON’T care never change anything. People who do care do and can.
It’s not entirely about numbers.
That’s my understanding as well. Still, the people that choose not to vote in presidential elections have outnumbered the turnout for either party for 100+ years. Voting is a pretty low bar, it doesn’t take that much effort. Seems like more would simply deign to do it if things were actually that dire. I think leading up to the civil war turnout was like 80%, but it was way different then so I’m not sure if it’s a good way to compare. We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout since 1908, if I recall. Most of the time since it has been way less than that.
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