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You are confusing cause and effect. We have voter apathy because we are where we are. The vote-harder contingent has never once shown that it works. Every single president has presided over mass murder of innocent civilians. Every single party has approved or failed to stop mass murder. There has not been a single victory over racialized mass incarceration in 70 years. The US imprisons more of its people than almost any other country, and has a parole system twice as big as its prison system, meaning it manages the lives 3x more people with its police force than any other country on earth. It's unfathomably larger than anything the world has ever seen. It absolutely dwarfs the height of the GULAG system.
The system creates the apathy. The apathy doesn't create the system.
And I saw your other comment that not-voting won't make things better and that's true, but voting also won't make things better. So it's time to start thinking about what will make things better and time to stop funneling energy into a known ineffective solution.