Voter turnout’s low because we live in an oligarchy where only special interests are represented, votes don’t matter (even when they’re not suppressed), and the

Voter turnout’s low because we live in an oligarchy where only special interests are represented, votes don’t matter (even when they’re not suppressed), and the will of the people isn’t heard in our chambers and halls of governance. That’s why 65 million people vote for Clinton and we end up with Trump despite 3 million less votes. It’s why pluralities of Americans support things like assault weapons bans but Mitch McConnell won’t even bring bills to the floor. It’s why we get extreme gerrymandering in states like N. Carolina, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. The country is being hollowed out from within, the middle class is in steady decline, and our once great institutions are being privatized and sold off to the highest bidder. It’s Milton Friedman and his Chicago boys wet dream and it’s only possible when the people aren’t represented and it’s going to have terrible repercussions in the United States just like it did in every other place that forced it upon its citizens. We need to get rid of undemocratic institutions like the electoral college and Senate, expand the number of reps in the House of Representatives, drastically reduce the amount of money in politics, root out corruption, and make voting easier to access. Unfortunately the Republican party wants none of those to pass in a system they can only continue to game further to win. It’s a pretty depressing reality.