I know one ways authoritarian regimes try to make people indifferent politics is by instilling in them the idea that politics is so complicated, and there is such an overwhelming array of things that could be going on, that it's ultimately hopeless trying to understand anything at all, and it's better to stay out of politics altogether, to save yourself the headache. That's a tactic that the Russian government uses on its citizens.
But do they also try to make politics seem so petty that it's not worth engaging in? I suspect so, or it wouldn't surprise me, anyway, because that's the thing that's getting to me. I think I could have lived with the complication. But the pettiness, and everything covered with emotional barbs and smug sarcasm, endless charges of hypocrisy, which are themselves hypocritical... that's what's really getting to me and making me want to tune out.