Half of us literally voted for it

Turnout was mediocre compared to 2020, in no small part thanks to conservatives cranking voter disenfranchisement to eleven. Then you have enormous swaths of residents whose views effectively don't count, because they're in the wrong state or they're the wrong age or they've never been properly documented and registered in our Byzantine bureaucracy.

Something like 40% of residents actually got to decided the next president. And of that 40%, half of them got what they wanted.

When I reply with “uh, it’s us citizens next” they are too afraid and hopeless to accept it.

Afraid and hopeless to do what, exactly? If there's a button to press, they'll push it. If there's a campaign to support, you'll be surprised how many people get into the streets.

But the activism has been strangled by a heavily armed, overwhelmingly well-financed police state.

You'd be stupid not to be afraid, particular after watching tanks roll through LA.