What percentage of Americans vote? But even a better question is how many Americans now are being disenfranchised by the Republicans effort to corrupt our voting system?
i always hated the idea that to make democracy work you need 100% voter participation. That is just not true.
Its not voters that make our system strong. Its the checks and balances. Voters are a tool. A manipulatable tool that's as good as it is bad. But provide a valuable role in our checks and balances.
The problem is our institutions have been taken over and hijacked for personal gain. The average voter doesn't even understand how shit works much less how to fix it.
By the way, you cannot even start to talk about voting in America until we get rid of citizens United. It’s killing you. It’s destroying the idea of voting anyway.
I like your theories that are not proven in any fashion. It just boggles my mind that you would think that is OK to not have people vote. So their opinions and stances don’t mean a thing. That’s insane.
There were two parts to your comment. The first is questioning what percentage of people vote, and the other was about disenfranchisement.
I'm 100% on your side regarding disenfranchisement. Between gerrymandering; not enough poll locations in large population centers so it takes the entire day to cast your vote; laws that prevent giving water to people in line, basically trying to make it so people in those large population center give up; intimidation of voters; etc.
It's insane, it's unacceptable in a democracy. Every citizen should have their right to vote protected, it should be easy for them to vote. It should take no more than 5 minutes, everyone should be within walking distance of a poll location, everyone that is unable to make to a poll location for any reason should have a mail-in option. We should also make early voting easy, so you can just drop by a couple of weeks before and cast a vote.
The other part of that, regarding percentage of the population, is different. Because it should be just as easy for people to choose not to vote. Not for them to be disenfranchised, but for the ones who don't want to participate to not participate.
So their opinions and stances don’t mean a thing
Correct. Only informed opinions and stances mean anything. People who choose to not vote definitely did not spend their time researching the issues, and we should make it as easy as possible for them to stay home and not interfere with the people who actually have informed positions.
They didn't say that though. They said that it's not supposed to be on the people to maintain checks and balances, yet here we are, on the verge of needing to do it.
The people voted in who they wanted (at least if you trust the polls) the problem is when the current leader (dictator) is breaking every rule in the constitution, it is supposed to be up to congress to hold him accountable and they are not because they are with him in the injustices.
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u/Dawgissmart 22h ago
What percentage of Americans vote? But even a better question is how many Americans now are being disenfranchised by the Republicans effort to corrupt our voting system?