Kinda? Most Americans are extremely low-information on politics, and never proactively educated as to how to find that information or sometimes even why it matters. We are the most propagandized population on Earth, our country has little to no standards for factual information in media and several of our major outlets are just pure corporate spin, while all of our major newspapers are owned by oligarchs. Demographic fact is gerrymandered out of our districts, our default voting method creates perverse incentives to elect popularity over platform and locks third parties out of viability. Individual jurisdictions decide how voting is accomplished and more often than not use this power to make it difficult to do so instead of easier. There is almost no enforcement of laws requiring leave from work to vote. There is next to no oversight of our physical voting machines and little trust in tabulation, while parties can and often do purge voter roles between elections without informing those who they nullified. Ultimately most people didn’t vote for this because quite frankly most people don’t or can’t vote for one of the reasons above, something that I missed, or a tragic apathy created by said trainwreck of conditions.
Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous. At the very least it’s not a statement that can be built off of for a more productive outcome, in fact it functions as a thought-terminating cliche and provides cover for a class of power who continuously work to keep this set of circumstances cemented in place.
Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous.
It’s not. There’s no other way to have a govt “for the people” than to hold an election.
it functions as a thought-terminating cliche and provides cover for a class of power who continuously work to keep this set of circumstances cemented in place.
I don’t think you’re really addressing what I wrote. I’m not saying it’s untrue in a strict sense. I’m saying it’s a disingenuous point. A misleading framing. An uncritical, not entirely applicable, and wholly unhelpful approach to our political issues.
Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. Not now.
Unfortunately, the people voted for this.
Kinda? Most Americans are extremely low-information on politics, and never proactively educated as to how to find that information or sometimes even why it matters. We are the most propagandized population on Earth, our country has little to no standards for factual information in media and several of our major outlets are just pure corporate spin, while all of our major newspapers are owned by oligarchs. Demographic fact is gerrymandered out of our districts, our default voting method creates perverse incentives to elect popularity over platform and locks third parties out of viability. Individual jurisdictions decide how voting is accomplished and more often than not use this power to make it difficult to do so instead of easier. There is almost no enforcement of laws requiring leave from work to vote. There is next to no oversight of our physical voting machines and little trust in tabulation, while parties can and often do purge voter roles between elections without informing those who they nullified. Ultimately most people didn’t vote for this because quite frankly most people don’t or can’t vote for one of the reasons above, something that I missed, or a tragic apathy created by said trainwreck of conditions.
Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous. At the very least it’s not a statement that can be built off of for a more productive outcome, in fact it functions as a thought-terminating cliche and provides cover for a class of power who continuously work to keep this set of circumstances cemented in place.
It’s not. There’s no other way to have a govt “for the people” than to hold an election.
That may be but it doesn’t make it untrue.
I don’t think you’re really addressing what I wrote. I’m not saying it’s untrue in a strict sense. I’m saying it’s a disingenuous point. A misleading framing. An uncritical, not entirely applicable, and wholly unhelpful approach to our political issues.
Removed by mod
By some of the people, for a few of the people, and subsidized by the rest of the people.
Fsvo people.