yeah – supporting the status quo by not voting is definitely a thing.
lack of participation here also has to do with things like: the electoral college ( ex. people feel like their vote doesn’t count ), active disenfranchisement ( ex. felons often can’t vote ), barriers in getting registered and getting to the polls ( ex. voter purges, limited ballot access, election day isn’t a holiday. )
i just read that oregon ( with universal mail-in voting ) has had a record breaking 80+% voter participation rate. that’s way beyond the us average 50-60% rate. so there’s clearly barriers to voting in other states.
unfortunately, none of that really changes – like @Mindysan33 and others say – that so many people still voted for trump even after everything we’ve seen in the last four years.
