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Nobody "makes" it an "election deciding issue" - those are simply issues that are important to a large portion of the electorate.
If both parties refuse to address it, then those people who care a lot about it are less likely to vote, period, and the more of those issues stack, the less likely they are to vote. It's infuriating listening to libs whinge about non voters, because they simply do not understand how much apathy their own party is creating.
Just look at the current party approval ratings and tell me that it matters to anyone that the Republicans are 'objectively' worse.
Fact is that when the left became team America world police. They think they own the Middle East. I guess it’s easier I criticize and go after a country and conflict across the planet, than it is to fix your own dumpster fire of a country.
I don't even know who or what issue you're specifically referring to, but it doesn't mean anything to moralize about the issues voters are responding to. It doesn't even really matter what specific issue that does it - if voters lose faith in democracy serving their interests, they just aren't going to bother working within that system. They'll either become completely apathetic or become radicalized against it.
This is what a failure of democracy looks like - not a military coup or an armed rebellion, but a slow, gangrenous rotting of trust in democratic institutions.