It’s all arbitrary one way or another,

Exactly, yes.

The choice to fixate on it is arbitrary, though. That the math is easier when C=1 doesn’t really mean that C is 1 any more than it is 299,792,458. C is C. The 1 is convenient.

Ah, so it is arbitrarily human experience that defines these things, I see.

There is an element of people wanting their fast food and being displeased that civil rights took multiple decades to build.

That said, it isn’t just their fault. The Democrats, generally, do not know how to be exciting. As much as people say they’re not interested, it’s not entirely true; there is a spark that has yet to be ignited.

I don’t mean to be mean, but you need to talk to more people.

A lot of people in America simply do not believe they can change anything. Either because they don’t know how, they’ve never shown up to a town hall, or because the only politics they hear about are from states and federal buildings they’ll never live or work in, or because the only politics they hear about outside of Trump being a dipshit is some 2% thing that will do something which might lead to something else maybe, or because South Park taught them that caring about anything is cringe and, actually, the smartest people spend all day making fun of anyone with an idea.

I mean, let me ask another question: how the fuck do you lose interest in unions? And yet, the US lost interest a looong time ago.