So....OK....if everything is fixed by the uninterested staying away from the polls, then why is everything so screwed up?
I can tell you why..
Because far more than 50% of the populace in this country is not really qualified to be voting..
Plato called this issue as a impossible problem a very long time ago.
“So....OK....if everything is fixed by the uninterested staying away from the polls, then why is everything so screwed up?”
Lousy governance since 1989. Free trade. Importation of the third world and it’s problems. A criminal justice system that went to a revenue generation model. A completely failed government school system. Welfare. Take your pick.
Elections at this point have little to do with selection of a candidate and much more to do with control of a restless population. The candidates are already selected well before the election takes place. The differences between the candidates are usually very minor. The policies they will implement vary little as well, as this “bipartisan” budget deal exemplifies. However the political class figured out long ago that you can get a more compliant population by giving the population some meaningless say in choosing between personalities. So we have elections.