It s hard to blame people for not turning out with this kind of electoral degradation. We ve just never had anything to get excited about. America has forgotten about hardship, and war, and anything else that would make us feel like our votes counted for something. Oh, we think we ve had hardship, we refer to the 60s as a tough time, and the recession in the 1980s. By comparison to the dust bowl, or the Civil War, the last 40-years have been picnic for most of America.
Leader turn out is the problem.
We want to be presented with a choice and be done with it for another four years. This kind of passive political attitude has a tendency of getting people killed by the millions.