Bill Moyers: U.S. Democracy "May Be Running Out of Luck" | Amanpour and Company 

How would anyone even know? Nothing coming from the Democratic politicians convey any truth.

@@Rob-zr3wb magats don't speak

@@Rob-zr3wb You forgot to take your meds!!!

LoL you're the pudding!!

@@AlaricTheArcane kkk granny

And ordinary people who do so are simply invisible in social media.

@@patricialongo5746 I’m an ordinary person.

@@susanwilliams1594 it's rare for anyone to see my comments. I have never gotten a thumb.

@@susanwilliams1594 I'm invisible unless I replied to a comment. Really.

First time I saw the flag in person it was used to threaten me while in my twenties. I moved to GA and I was surprised ppl in mass still lived backwoods.

God bless Bill Moyers.🙏🇺🇸❤️

More like buried treasure since despite years of warning few Americans listen to him which is why we've reached this point.

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One economic calamity from civil disaster nowadays....

I'd even add it's way overdue!

"Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence. .... "Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. . . . If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy." " Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)

True. It's here.

So true- we already have no true rule of law in this country. It’s a society which punishes petty crime but never white collar crime at least not for a long time.

Yes Trump will.

Put it that way. Like I said throughout the video. That "side" is the old Confederacy. They were the conservatives of that era. They are still triggered 162 years later....

Exactly 💯

He's forgotten He did it the first time

IMHO unless everyone who is claiming the election was stolen is challenged on their social media/tv/radio to dispute their claims, the division of the US might only to continue.

Thanks for coming back Bill! We really need you right now desperately!

Bill Moyers is a living legend! I enjoyed his programs on PBS and he always made sure all sides could be heard. He even had Republicans who were upset with their party on his show.

today the usa gets tuckums

@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 ugh

The rainbow warrior cult of the rabid woke democrats, the human traffic of the Red Bull of British Empire, the Union Jack off boot black. Obama, the strange love of devil’s shoe shine boy, pushing the Oscar Wilde west crossfire dope, to inner city 🌈💀💀💀💀💀 toll Count 🧛🏻‍♂️ downer cope.

@Ash Hegde You're wrong.

Agree with Bill Moyer’s. For one! Fox News is not news!!!!. It’s pure evil propaganda for the individuals who’s only intention is to destroy America. A White power movement on tv 24 hrs a day lying to America. It must be legally attacked. Lies are destroying our country!!!!

@Ash Hegde Russian bot

@Ash Hegde That's because you are a part of the infection that's took hold in the fringe of the US.

@Ash Hegde Please provide us with a full response rather than this soundbite. Provide proof of your opinion, because there is a lot of proof for you to look for - please make sure it's unbiased proof, please.

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the irony

They could at least re-run the show.

Bill Moyers & Belew talk like they just want to pack up and move to UGANDA or YEMEN, but some unexplained force prevents them from doing that, but it's actually NOT unexplained, it's called "racism". They simply cannot back up ANYTHING they claim to believe in, because ITS ALL FAKE

@@kfleming78 soo..I checked out your channel. Cool song, People are fake. That doesn't make Bill Moyers fake though. There's an old saying. People say what they are. Diaper Don does it all the time

@@kfleming78 Did you just watch the same video? Moyers stated he is NOT a pessimist, so why would he leave America?

Bill Moyers like Ralph Nader or Chris Hedges are National Treasures that should be elevated boices just like suppressed Chomsky and Snowden

Bill Moyers lives in a cartoon world where he is full of "love" and "truth", and all the smart people that can debate and discuss issues outside of an echo chamber are full of "hate" & "lies". Eventually his virtue reality batteries are going to run out.

@@kfleming78 There is a Ken Fleming who is a Kentucky State Representative Ken Fleming (R)

@@julianabernathy5413 yes - i know there is, but im pretty sure he's just a cuckservative. I'm an actual right winger - not a conservative

The rainbow warrior cult of the rabid woke democrats, the human traffic of the Red Bull of British Empire, the Union Jack off boot black. Obama, the strange love of devil’s shoe shine boy, pushing the Oscar Wilde west crossfire dope, to inner city 🌈💀💀💀💀💀 toll Count 🧛🏻‍♂️ downer cope.

@Ash Hegde, You are either much too young, not paying attention or just deiberately ignorant. I remember what an excellent speech writer Mr. Moyers was during the Kennedy Administration. His Bill Moyers Journal TV show was superb at uncovering the outrages of government corruption. The last Moyers documentary I saw was how ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Committee) has permeated and corrupted American Government at federal, state and local levels. Too bad you find learning how your government ACTUALLY works "boring."

Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

I share Your sentiments. Thank You.

That's not feeling vindictive... it's merely wanting accountability and the rule of law to apply to the most powerful in the country as to the rest of us.

@@SusanKay- I do not doubt your words. I am hoping to see it take plàce before I pass.

@Zohar Zisapel I think you need to review your understanding. Not certain you can support your statement. Any connection between the two is minuscule at best.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Only from my dad

I certainly do remember, and hope to see it again, and think it is time for new parties to enter our politics. Trumpism in my mind is a terrorist organization/ideology. We need to have Civics in all schools, mandatory, starting in elementary school. Adult voters are simply ignorant now.

Maybe some did when Eisenhower was President. 1952-1960.

@@davidpomeroy8165 My thoughts exactly!

Remember when democrats had a brain

One of my favourites. Amazing quote after the 4 minute mark on the reality of slavery, the schools, the press, politics and the pulpit.

Notice, this is a smoke screen by the government to prevent a actual Coup. Both political parties are corrupt. Congress members are worried that a revolution could happen do to polarization. But they also feed the polarization every chance they get, when cameras are on them. Both sides. Every year they promise to break up the tech monopolies, yet nothing ever happens, instead tech monopoly stocks rise, & A.I driven social polarization continues, to increase Ad revenue. Congress "Debates" have become the outrage content for tech monopolies to recommend & herd more American people into fringe political insanity, to increase Ad revenue... Congress & Big Tech has clearly become the number 1 enemy of the American people. Congress is a corrupt organization, & is parasitic to our system, a clear national security threat that must be dealt with.

I only discovered him recently, when I watched his interview with Joseph Campbell. I was so sad that it took me so long. Wonderful, both of them.

@@catchingthemoon The interview with Joe Campbell is amazing on several levels. Two very intelligent men having a deep, wide ranging discussion on mythology philosophy, within a context of today's modern society, so fascinating.

Find the Moyers report "Moyers on Democracy".

@@TRUTHorSTFU not at all what I had meant... I was confused about her name and deleted my comment when I realized my mistake. What are you talking about? Troll?

@@totonow6955 You are clueless that you're clueless! SAD.

Agreed.

Citizens United played a big part of money corrupting politics.

Agreed. There's a lot of talk of saving democracy in America but democracy wasn't working very well for the majority, which is what Trump exploited. Democrats have to talk more openly about getting the $$ out of politics and fixing democracy not just protecting what was the status quo.

@@CS-tj1jz Chomsky put it best in the must see documentary Requiem For The American Dream, when he said (I'm paraphrasing) the current system is an attack on the 'residue' of democracy.

And she’s from the university of Chicago which primarily started all this crap back in the 70s and 80s

Thank you! Get your neighbors and friends together and DEMAND that these laws are enforced!

Our founding fathers were insurrectionists.

@@erikthueson2691 What a lousy defense. The difference being that the Fathers were seeking liberty, freedom, democracy. The GOP insurrectionists were seeking FASCISM. Only a brainwashed dupe would believe otherwise.

Who would enact and enforce that, the SCOTUS? the Senate? The select commitee? The DOJ? Where is the lever to apply that power? What forces will be marshalled against its spplication? And who will prove the stronger, that's what I wonder.

@@photonjones5908 If the Dems would just grow a spine & use the bold action they claim is necessary to protect democracy, here's what needs to be done: 1) The overwhelming majority of the Majority Party in Congress (there will always be a couple of gullible or greedy holdouts) must certify that the GOP is now a Domestic Terrorist Organization bent on destroying democracy & worthy of immediate expulsion from American politics, elections & governing. 2) The Executive Branch must confirm this is true & issue an Executive Order immediately barring the "participation" of anything GOP. 3) If any case immediately comes up before the SCOTUS, Justice Thomas & the 3 Justices seated by the 45th must recuse themselves. 4) The first bill passed by what remains of Congress should be HR1

From Canada We must not let Trumpism get into our Country Good luck Bill and Kathleen

I have already thought of moving to Canada but a dictatorship in the USA might rescind my pension. I feel trapped. Thank you for your concern and well wishes. I also fear for Canada in the future having a dictatorship on its southern border if that comes to pass.

Who needs to forget? Republicans are ignoring it, and manipulating voting systems state by state

Chile..Cuidado...CIA...9/11/73...Nunca Olvides

What do you mean by NEVER FORGET?

yeah our hell gift on The Epiphany... demonic enough for you?

We'll also never forget how the DNC literally cheated Bernie Sanders and got away with it. Both parties are a shitshow of corruption.

That is one of the most amazing interviews I have ever watched and continue to watch.

@@catchingthemoon Bill has an incredibly rich track record. Genius level journalism.

Believe it! This is sadly only appetizer

you mean kgbputin? and/or rbbbmurky And rasputin ?

Exactly!

-.- when trump won 2016.. the amount of people protested trump tower was way more then jan. 6. Jan 6 is just another false flag event to increase the police state.. And the dem deserve so much worst for holding out the stim check and unemployment boost.

What are we going to do about this? Just sit back and comment or take to the streets and show our officials that we want the maximum punishments for the insurgents! Minimum 20 years! Or just shoot them to the moon!

@@andyc3012 Somewhere in the world there's a tree dedicated to providing the oxygen that you waste. Find it and apologize.

Gotta have rules: if we don't, what matters?

Oh stop it. Everyday was Trump is a peace of shit day from 2015 till 2020.. Bullshit hit piece everyday.. Remeber what happen when Trump won? The streets of NYC got flood for days... business got shut down... it was worst then Jan.6

Funny how not one person in the woke mob is for Trump. Funny how all the rioting, burning and looting was all done by liberal democrats hhhhmmmmmmmm

@@jmazz1127 After centuries of Lynchings, I think they got mad. Hmmmmmm

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. You're nothing buy a foolish hypocrite. People like you just love to see the flaws in others, but you constantly fail to see the flaws in yourself. Grow up and start holding the feet of ALL politicians to the fire.

@@nightoftheworld _"doesn’t seem like something Jesus would say at all"_ Jesus was a fictional character in a fairy tale, MAGAdumdum. Grow up.

@@JesusSaysMAGAtrashMAGAfilth Bernie voter actually. And it doesn’t matter if he was fictional or not, the story of his ministry was and is very real and it’s ethical constellations helped guide modern democratic society into existence. Jesus was a radical feminist of his day, who broke the chains of his father and took it upon himself to absorb the suffering this world to bring others into the fullness of life. You would rather be an antagonist and create pain it seems.. uncool

the eIect0raI crap came fr0m racism! s0 there are quite bit m0re pr0bIems than we want to admit n0w isn't there?

It's not the only problem, but we desperately need one vote = one person.

I agree that religious and civic history can be better taught. But doing so should not result in the stupid iconoclasm we see today. There are thousands of interpretations of Christianity both today and historically. That is one of the best aspects of Christianity, it is how we gained Freedom of and freedom from religion. It was expressed by John Locke who worked with the Huguenots, and then adopted by Thomas Jefferson. Out of the tragedy of the Huguenots arose many of our most basic civil liberties. But today because Jefferson own slaves, his statue is torn down, the iconoclasts seem not to understand that he was historically one of the greatest defender of freedom from and freedom to practice religion and tolerance as well as a secular liberal legal tradition. I grew up in the United Church of Christ which is one of the more progressive denominations. Bill Moyers is a member. The Church was a leader in the interfaith movement which I always thought was a very positive movement. Perhaps the shadow side of that tolerance was that of not confronting other churches as some became more and more profane. And they called the UCC profane and heretical for being tolerant and accepting. What I have found is that many of the more radical church‘s don’t read the Bible or understand church history at all, or the many interpretations. Yes, there are dark chapters of Christian history. But some of the deeper lessons come out of erased triumphs such as Rev. Robert Rauschenbush who ended child labor, Rev. Paul Tillich and other Germans who stood up against the Nazi, Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights movement, not to mention things like the abolitionists. In 1900 most mainline churches were progressive and accepted science. Literalist fundamentalism was a reactionary movement of the 1920‘s expressed then most notably in the Scopes Monkey Trial. They darker chapters should be taught for the sake of greater discernment. But there is also an appreciation which is also sorely lacking by the general population as well.

@@matthewkopp2391 Very well spoken and I agree with you. Unfortunately, with so many interpretations along the the many different bible versions, commentaries, study bibles, etc , it leaves room for misinterpretation. Basically, Christianity becomes " a God of your own understanding" as spoken by Bill W. (AA). creating an interpretation of God to meet your wants and needs. Thank you for your research.

Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

That flag in the capitol was a road too far...

Remember when taking a knee during the Star Spangled Banner was considered horribly treacherous though it was non-violently raising awareness to call for legal reforms. Now wearing it as a cape or using it as a weapon to beat police…eh that’s OK. I have a lot of respect for Republicans who have kept their oaths and stood up to MAGA cult populism.

@@SusanKay- Agreed.

@@cipherklosenuf9242 there are some brave honest decent people who once called themselves republicans. And possibly still do, needing a better term which is lacking.

@@SusanKay- it was a shot across the bow of our ship of state. Once considered a declaration of was, making them enemy combatants.

But of course they wont.

@Ash Hegde Private Property has nothing to do with Democracy. They had all kinds of private property in Nazi Germany. Some Socialist states do not encourage private property. Personally I think private property is good within limits because it encourages thrift and discipline but can also lead to monopolies and must therefore be monitored.

@@charlesbeaudry3263, By saying "they won't", you show your true colors as a brainwashed sceptic. A bill was introduced to form a Jan. 6 committee of bipartisan FORMER house members, who have no dogs in the fight. Of course the repubs turned it down. The Senate Repubs voted to NOT EVEN DISCUSS Jan 6. Speaker Pilosi tried to form a bi-partisan investigative committee and McCarthy tried to send his impeachment-vet pitbulls to sandbag and sabatoge it. If you've been paying attention lately, you've seen several interviews with Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill), who said that the committee is very bi-partisan. However, if Speaker Pilosi hadn't put Kinziger and Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) on the select committee it would be totally Democrats and may not have existed at all. In interviews, Kinzinger not only spoke about how it feels to be one in 200 Republicans to stand up to the insurrectionists and their corporate, government, and possibly foreign sponsors.

All true American people and politicians need to hear and heed this. Save America!

Too busy fundraising off 1/6.

Alter they want to flat out obilerate it. They see Democarcy as Commuism! The right is crazy!0

you may like Mike Malloy here is recent one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z3T2ueL64ss.html

True. I'm 72. Been watching this slow moving catastrophe as well. Glad I'll be dead soon

And the regimentation autocracy requires! They think mask or vaccination mandates are overreaching!

You are so right. Conservative Christianity has lost its way and is drowning in idolatry and darkness. Conservative Christianity is very, very far from Goodness, Light and Truth. There is nothing anyone can do for them but you can do something for yourself: stay away from Evangelicals, never lose sight of what you know is true. Live in the Light.

Where were you when Obama was President? Under a rock? 🤭🤪🤣

@@Browne7100 Whether or not they support the insurrection there are 74 million who support the man who tried to overthrow the government and make himself dictator. You need to take a ride down through the Deep South and observe the rank ignorance, gullibility, resentment, superstition and White Supremacy that passes itself off as "Christianity". Watch a video from Pastor Greg Locke. His type of "Christianity" saturates the South from Texas to Kentucky to Virginia/West Virginia to the Carolinas to Florida. Southern Evangelicalism is a sickness.

@@grantsmythe8625 let’s remember that intellectuals will lose ground if people in the middle and south of our nation believe they are being looked down upon.

Many people who call themselves “evangelical” are really Leviticans, not Christians.

Americans are still stranded in Afghanistan. Assuming you don’t know that of course.

@@Rob-zr3wb Debunked, MAGAloser. Try again. And grow up.

@@Rob-zr3wb You forgot to take your meds!!!

And thanks to the Pentagon, military, US Intel., politicians etc for saying one thing publicly, and something quite different privately for the last 20 years.

Cowards will not hold that sonuvabitch accountable!

You are. We have the best politicians money can buy on both sides. Adjusted for inflation, of course.

When you speak of evolving past the majority vote, are you referring to the Parliamentary system? Duverger pointed out three-quarters of a century ago that a first-past-the-post system, which the U.S. has, will overwhelmingly tend to create a two-party system. (India may be an exception, as there is a plethora of parties, but it is parliamentary.) Nietzsche pointed out that even a five-party system had the problem of Procrusteanism, that then therefore five opinions will be socially acceptable, but anything that deviates from those five will be unacceptable. Even given that, two parties are especially problematic, especially because game theory shows that they will tend to be as close as possible to get votes. Still, I'd like to know if there is anything I missed. How exactly do you think your system has evolved past the majority vote?

@@deadman746 Well, I don't see things as complicated as you. But the Anglo-Saxon model of majority vote (which means that if a party wins in a certain area (constituency or state) that that party automatically gets all the electoral votes of that area: you can loose with 49% vs 51% then those 49% are votes which don't make a difference in determining the electoral votes of that area) was the first way of democracy. So, the whole world copied it. But, as time went by, the proportional system was invented (where those 49% gave you the right of having 49% of the electoral votes of that area and the 51% gave you the right to 51% of the electoral votes) and the continent Europe changed their constitutions to allow this new idea to take place. So, Europe was once ruled by the same majority vote as the Anglo-Saxon world, but as soon as there was invented the proportional system, we changed to the proportional system. And, given the difficulties USA-democracy (and English democracy) experiences with a fascist leader like Trump, the benefits of the proportional system (with multiple parties and coalition governments) are becomming more and more clear. I hope you can understand my explanation a bit, 'cause talking about subjects as these is a lot harder than having a normal conversation in English...

“The Anglo-Saxon world” you reference is global, therefore, you are under its hegemony. The sun still doesn’t set on The British Empire. English is the world’s most taught second-language for functional reasons hardly different from unpretentious “loyalists” storming the US Capital Building or New York liberals tolerating mass incarceration and the opioid crisis. The angst has always been how to have one’s cake and eat it too.

@@artman2119 LMAO!!! Yeah, I'm truly under its hegemony! LMAO!!! English replaced French, which replaced Latin and English will be replaced by Chinese or by some other language. So what? The sun doesn't set on the French empire, on the Spanish empire, on the Dutch empire and on the Portugese empire. There are way more people that talk Spanish than there are that talk English. I know this will be a shock for you, but there are way, way more people that doesn't talk English as that talk English. What I miss is how 'exceptional' the Anglo-Saxon culture is. That would make whole your explanation completely ludicrous! LMAO!!! :))))))))

So the win matters more than how you play the game? is that what you are saying? Doing that means we are no different than them. I'm not saying you're wrong, but if we do that, then they are no longer cheating... they have changed the rules by which the game is played, and that is the win they really wanted! I think this is why democracy doesn't seem to endure. They are ruled by a mob after all.

Yes I think we are all glad we voted for a president who destroyed the oil and gas industry and created massive inflation, created a border crisis with record amounts of drugs that are killing our citizens, a disaster with stranding civilians in Afghanistan, botched COVID response and record number of murders in 2021. All of this was accomplished in less than a year, I’m looking forward to the next 3 years of similar accomplishments to come. All our praise to President Geriatric. Let’s go Brandon!

@@Rob-zr3wb nothing happens that quickly in this country, you are seeing the results of mango mussolini

@@Rob-zr3wb You forgot to take your meds!!!

@@greenhometony your response is “nothing happens that quickly?” He did act quickly and the negative consequences followed accordingly. This is fact not opinion.

@@Rob-zr3wb - are the nurses in your ward aware that you are using their workstations to access the Internet?

Can't do that. Both parties are corrupt. They won't turn on the Republicons. Too many bribes, extort ion, threats, perks, backstabbing, insider trading, etc etc that would mess up their partying.

Very TRUE

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I worry about this part everyday.

@@debbiefinney1630 Me too. There's a significant chance it will happen, and throughout history when it does, things can go very badly very quickly.

The last thing we should do is give them what they want. While they may be earning their stripes in hell, I would be relieved if they could be an example of the rewards of their perfidy before others choose to follow them

TRUMP CANNOT WIN - IF AMERICANS WHO BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY - GO AND VOTE ! REMEMBER TRUMP AND HIS * FASCIST FRIENDS ARE IN THE MINORITY ! BUT IT IS CRUCIAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY THAT DEMOCRATS WIN IN THE 2022 MIDTERMS AND IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. PLEASE VOTE DEMOCRAT UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT - DO NOT ALLOW ANY REPUBLICANS TO WIN ANY SEATS BECAUSE THEY HAVE PROVEN THEMSELVES TO SHOW THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO TRUMP AND NOT TO THE DEMOCRATIC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE OTHER THING WHICH IS HUGELY IMPORTANT IS TO JOIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARDS - SUCH AS SCHOOL BOARDS etc AS THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE DOING TO GAIN CONTROL OF KEY LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. TRUMP AND HIS * FASCIST CULT SUPPORTERS ARE IN THE MINORITY - WHICH IS WHY THEY LOST THE 2020 ELECTION. EVERY PERSON ELIGIBLE TO VOTE MUST VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR EVERY SEAT / EVERY OFFICE WHICH IS UP FOR ELECTION - "THE LINCOLN PROJECT" AND OTHERS ARE WORKING TO BOTH WARN AND TO MOTIVATE VOTERS AT THIS TIME AND TO MAKE CLEAR THAT THE OUTCOME OF EVERY ELECTION BOTH LOCAL AND NATIONAL CAN HELP PRESERVE OR HELP DESTROY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY - THE VOTERS DECIDE ! ( DEFINITION OF * FASCISM = THE CULT OF THE LEADER )

@@mauracassidy1762 it is quite possible that lots of Democrats will stay home and Trump will get an office. It is also possible that someone other than Trump from the GOP that is equally trumpian could win. Nothing would surprise me.

Neils Bohr was a physicist...the last people who should be consulted on politics. Secrecy is a powerful tool regardless who wields it!

@@photonjones5908 Genetic fallacy. Why do you think that insulting or otherwise dissing the person being quoted has ANY EFFECT on the power/truth of what is being said? Did you learn that shit from Creationists? Secrecy breeds Fascism in a supposed democracy. This is easy to prove even if your dog says it to you (and I’m guessing he’s the smarter one).

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I agree. Bad enough congress harbors traitors to our county. Let us not pay them for it.

Vote them out!

What are we to do with this warning? Put out very strong opposite messaging? What about the "restorative revolution" instead. Positive life giving life affirming efforts.

Tooooo many people in government are complicit or favor autocracy!

CIA coups removing democratically elected leaders around the world. Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Dominican Republic, S. Vietnam, Brazil, Chile, etc. The CIA are the Coup Masters.

Half of them are on the trumpster dumpster side. Wake up. Flynn, other generals, Police, veterans, where have you been.

wonder how many of those were in areas where there weren't enough polling places, and inadequate access to mail in ballots? Ah, that's not totally it. We have mail-in ballots for everyone, and we still have low voter turnout. Better than some states, but still... I also wonder how much of low turn-out is due to a sense of hopelessness, "It doesn't matter who is in office, I cannot get a job with an income that keeps up with inflation and allows me some time with my family."

Because that know that both parties are corrupt, so why bother. Their vote is a waste of their time