It's not that they couldn't be bothered. This was an intentional act by people who were sick of everyone else being safe from fascism except for them. They bound their fate with the fate of everyone else. This was an incredibly suicidal act. But it was not apathy, or made with a lack of understanding of what it means.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113442622342979916
I've been trying to warn people for over a year that the people saying "We will not vote for Biden ever again" were serious.