The people who stay at home for elections aren't actually reading political articles on Medium.
Non-voters are much more likely to be poor, much more likely to be non-white, and coincidentally, this same group has systematically been fscked for fifty years now, and alternating R and D administrations have made little difference to them.
Here in Europe, no one would ever blame the fricken voters because they didn't show up for some bad candidate - they would blame the candidate.
If the Democrats want voters, they should at least attempt to deliver on their promises.
After fifty years of Lucy pulling away the football, Charlie Brown doesn't want to play anymore. The problem is Lucy, not Charlie.