Here’s the problem… the parties are changing the purpose of elections. Elections are supposed to be about the people exerting their will. The powers that be are simply making it a numbers game… the will of the people be damned.
Thank you. You expressed it well.
GOTV has always been a numbers game. The party that gets more of its registered voters out to vote (or, these days, to turn in their completed ballots) wins, particularly if they can get some independents as well. It’s about canvassing and phone banking. That may or may not be considered “the will of the people”— the will of the people is generally to be lazy and not vote, and it takes nudging by volunteers who care more to get them to vote.
Excellent take.
“ Here’s the problem… the parties are changing the purpose of elections. Elections are supposed to be about the people exerting their will. The powers that be are simply making it a numbers game… the will of the people be damned.”
This.
Government of, by and for the people has transformed fully into government of, by and for the government class oligarchy.
America has been so thoroughly perverted that it cannot be restored. At this point it will either complete its path to Marxist dictatorship or it will be essentially destroyed and become non-functional, so that, giving it a positive outlook, something more like it’s original envisioning can be built from the rubble.