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Voters in the US have very little actual influence when it comes to national politics. Yes, they have one final vote, but their vote is highly distorted due to
by esarbe 4y ago
Voters in the US have very little actual influence when it comes to national politics. Yes, they have one final vote, but their vote is highly distorted due to systemic issues, like e.g. first-past-the-post.
There are 300 million people in the US. How come the voters only get to make a binary decision? Simple; because the two parties have designed everything so that the voter only gets to make that decision.
So, I'd say that blaming the voters is a bit short-sighted when it comes to a quasi-aristocracy like the US.
- krapp 4y agoThen why should Trump voters be considered a "warning sign" of anything? Either Trump's election was a successful populist repudiation of the status quo - as they themselves will often claim - in which case voters clearly had power (albeit extremely limited by the system) or they don't and he was in essence elected by the system, despite for some reason not being the best candidate for the party.