This is why the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about democracy in the US.

I promise you, that is not the reason. Do you get out much? Talk to most people? They aren’t paying attention. And most people are not paying attention because they are extremely incurious about anything that doesn’t directly effect them.

EDIT: Actually, they are extremely incurious about anything at all, even if it does directly effect them. People are completely braindead about paying attention to politics.