but, based on my experience, a lot of people just think that government sucks and politics is a disgusting, dirty, boring "hobby" that they'd just as soon not deal with, especially with so many other entertaining things to do- or just so busy trudging through another day of life until they die that they don't pay enough attention to what's going on in the world outside of their enclave. The irony is that, while many people I know complain about how much their life sucks in terms of their lack of healthcare, low wages, high cost of living, etc., they don't seem to make the connection between being politically active (unless maybe voting for President every 4 years) and the quality of their lives (or lack thereof). I always try to encourage people to get involved politically and get out to vote every election even if I don't agree with them politically but it seems hard to motivate people much, especially when they're being bombarded with media coverage that seems to dis-incentivize people's engagement in politics and negatively broad brushes politicians as all being roughly the same amount of corrupt and out to make everybody's lives worse (except theirs). For instance, there were too many people I knew personally whom were equally turned off by both Clinton and Trump this past election and considered them to be about equally negative despite obvious differences. Some of them held their nose and voted for Hillary and some just didn't vote for either.
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