Afterthought

Why do people find it so difficult to engage? Why does everybody turn away from politics, from his or her democratic right to do something, to participate, to change things? Could it be because politics themselves have made it very discouraging for those who do act, to achieve something? Leaves active citizens with the sense of having hit his/her head against a brick wall? Of not getting anywhere? Of not understanding the politics speak and the way things are defined and communicated? And will new participatory media actually make a difference?