Americans are exceptionally anxious about their political system, according to new international polling from Gallup, a situation that sets the country apart from other rich and powerful nations.
About one-third of Americans rated politics and government as the top issue facing their nation, behind only Taiwan — which faces the prospect of an invasion from China — and on par with Slovenia, Spain and South Korea.
The United States also stands out for the anxiety its younger residents have over economic issues, with younger Americans more likely than young adults in many of the other 107 surveyed countries to say affordability and other pocketbook issues are worrying them
Election participation in US is on similar level to European countries. The turnout is even similar to countries with mandatory voting. Americans do vote, that’s no the problem. The problem is that the system is archaic, was shitty to begin it and over time was abused and rigged beyond repair. The problem is that propaganda replaced education long time ago.
I’m my opinion the last time to fix it and save the country was after the civil war. If people recognized back then that system incapable of protecting basic human rights is useless and reformed it properly USA would be a totally different country right now. They didn’t and since then it’s collapse was just a matter of time.
The problem is that one side has a higher turnout than the other.
Take Texas for example. There are ~1.5 million more registered Democrats than Republicans.