

The fact is that non-voters either have more important things to do than vote or don’t feel they’d make an impact if they did vote.
When countries, states, and localities encourage education, promote mental and physical well-being, provide ample opportunities and fallbacks for financial security, and make it convenient to vote, then people more likely to at least vote, and at most vote progressively.
Scarcity promotes apathy, which promotes conservativism.
I don’t think it used to be that way, but it has always struggled with class disparity to different degrees. When the financial security and physical health of people are compromised, they’re less likely to be progressive.