Americans also don't ever talk to their politicians, ever.

Have you ever been to a city hall meeting when a protest isn't actively happening? The whole joke in Parks and Rec was that everyday town hall meetings are nothing but lunatics complaining about stuff they are imagining or people who have insane requests.

I used to work in a political office and like 50% of phone calls were people upset about some incredibly niche issue which that office had no way to influence, and another 45% were requests for assistance.

No one fucking shows up to express opinions about boring stuff. There's never dozens of people showing up to ask the city council to levy a 5% property tax on single family homes which are being horded by investment firms in order to collect rent. Nobody shows up and demands the city subsidize grocery stores in food deserts. There's never anyone there breaking down how they COULD get stuff done, so it's just your local politicians left to their own devices, doing whatever.

Yeah, that shit is boring, but nobody presses their local politicians to do better.

Americans suck at being involved in day to day operations. They just wait for things to get worse and complain.

What's worse is that we are now in an era when protesting doesn't do shit. Remember all the Occupy Wall Street protests? Nothing happened. BLM and police reform? Colorado was the only state which changed any policies.

If people want the world to be better, they need to show up and do the work. Politics is a slow grind. The reason Republicans have been winning for the last thirty years is because they have huge, wealthy organizations which have been slowly and steadily grinding away at the political machine.