1) the Supreme Court’s decisions are not intended to reflect popular opinion. They are supposed to draw meaning from the Constitution and it was set up to protect against popular opinion. If there really is a popular opinion about something the Congress is intended to reflect it and change the Constitution to reflect that opinion. This is and was intended to be very difficult.
2) voter turnout is about 60% I believe. To me that is disgusting and not something that republics can long endure.
But people do not want to become that involved in politics or anything else really serious.
3) the election game is not rigged but it is partially the result of having a professional political party, the Democrat Party, go up against a semi-professional one, the Republican. One is utterly corrupt, the other semi-corrupt. One LOVES government, the other doesn’t. Democrats use it to buy votes, the other doesn’t.
4) whatever you would think of changing it would soon have to face the same facts we face today and the same forces.
Yes, the SCOTUS opinions should be a Constitutional check on popular opinion translated into legislation to protect us from ourselves, but it should also be a check on abuse of Federal power through legislation to protect us from a tyrannical Federal Government.
We have seen various attempts to circumvent or influence this check and balance, from the WH on down, past and certainly present, but most significantly how the 1.5 parties use popular opinion to shape the SC via the selection process.
Perhaps not long ago, the election game wasn’t rigged, but that is no longer the case. We have lost control of our elections, from voter registration, to who gets to vote in party primaries, to how, where and by who the votes are counted, to the many, many ways we actually cast that vote.
When it comes to our election process, we are wide open and childishly trusting, low hanging fruit.
And yes, the demonrats are totally corrupt. They have been taken over by the progressives and are the socialist demonrat party now, once again.
Recent history has taught us to beware of Socialist Democrats (once aka Nazis).
Read up on the Progressives. They’ve been busy and very effective.
And the “other” party is easily as corrupt as the socialist demonrats. And you’re wrong. They BOTH absolutely LOVE a big all powerful Federal government.
These days the parties differ only enough to make you think so during elections and to keep us sending those donations.
The way for us to fight is to first wake up and see what is happening. The game being run on us has been used before.