You can't make people care. Not by telling them they should care. They have to experience. Unfortunately, with dictatorship, once you are experiencing it, it's

You can't make people care. Not by telling them they should care. They have to experience. Unfortunately, with dictatorship, once you are experiencing it, it's already too late. --- The reasons democracies slide towards less freedom is that in theory decisions should be made by people who care and are informed. But in reality, a single vote every few years is too imprecise to express any kind of informed opinion. You pick and issue, do research and vote according to what's best for you and/or society. Except you can't vote on the issue. You vote for a party or candidate which also has stances towards dozens other issues. So even if you provide signal in one dimension, you provide only noise in others. Voting for parties/candidates is like expressing your entire opinion, a multidimensional vector, by picking one point from a small number of predefined choices.