There is this weird opinion that unlike the very online, normies are indifferent/apathetic to politics and are just absorbed in their narrow normie lives

This is 100% untrue. They’re all powerfully committed to unexamined politics, and their absorption in narrow lives is the most political thing on the planet

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well, there's more to politics than presidential elections; there's also general micro-adjustments to a variety of views that may not register on coarse 1-bit positions. For example "radicalization" is a gradual drift of compounding hardening of stances.

some people (me & most of my friends) are aware of their political beliefs and don't follow news & political commentators because they can't swing our POV.

e.g., what would need to happen so that instead of supporting biden you support trump? some big watergate-level event that would reach you anyway so why waste time

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Disagree. Driving a pickup truck when you have no work need for one, and listening to talk radio as your routine drive-time entertainment is the opposite of tuned out. That's what I mean by unexamined. But you know it's real because they react *really* strongly if you push even a little on their lifestyles.

I think this is true for the middle and lower middle classes (most of America) but not really the working class. They’re mostly tuned out

Parochial politics are the original (and dominant) arena

i dont know. i know lots and lots of normies in their 20s (big city, emerging white collar professionals) and almost none of them give a thought to politics in their day-to-day

basically all just genuinely feel that politics is a waste of time, & following the same party as their parents whether or not they realize it