I don't think that's completely fair. I think most of what makes people apathetic and disheartened is the fact they see a situation where there isn't really anything they can do...and they are more or less right. It's not that they don't care about the political system as much as there is no good choices even if they were to suddenly get very active in it. There is only so much people can be crushed under the heals of the elite and the system designed to work against them until they just don't give a damn anymore and they quit caring. At best they can only get off their couches and drive our highly overrated, run down, inefficient road system to choice the very slightly lesser of two evils (or maybe three or four evils if they are lucky). Only the most resolute among the populace can continually ponder on against a battle that has become a lost cause, or at least that's how most people see it. It's not fair to say they don't care as much as they don't think caring will be able to fix anything. When they do care it's pretty much for purely selfish reasons anymore.
We don't have a built in revolt every four years, we have a system that has been corrupted to the point we can at best just exchange one group of people with another that aren't that different.
nicely done imadickaslob.
