On the market, “the consumer is king” and “always right,” but in politics you get anti-incivism campaigns, attacking so-called baseless apathy.
“Apathy” has many fathers (and some are as immoral as the proactive ones), but imagine a shul built in a secular area, supposedly to improve it. Except: the chairs are old, the lighting gives you a headache, most of the youth refuse to set foot in the place for good reason, and they occasionally sublet to the local houses of sin.
Instead of cleaning house by LISTENING and self-reflection, the pols say the voters are captive and can be ignored, while the non-voters are always inexplicably wrong (never mind calling a biohazard company, a better business review, an audit, etc.). So they launch a campaign against “apathy,” complete with graphic, scary pictures of the “competing” theater and clubhouse (aka Lapid and Lieberman): if you don’t come and pay dues, the other places will win…
On the market, walking out is information. In politics, it’s a character flaw.