Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.
Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.
I had no idea how bad things actually were until I saw one simple graph.
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And a lot of this comes from not fucking voting. I seriously wonder how things would be if voting was mandatory and everyone was given appropriate time off to do it.
In Germany we only vote on Sundays and it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. We're still lucky when more than two thirds vote. People are in general are lazy and stupid.
"Super einfach, kaum eine Unannehmlichkeit!"
Ryan, that you?
as long as they vote along party lines more than according to what the politicians do, number of votes does not improve this.
Sorry but mandatory vote solves nothing. You'll still have a lot of people alienate about politics and now they had to vote and they'll make their choices like a popularity contest.
mandatory vote solves nothing
It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote.
In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.
You can vote for whichever politician you like, so long as it's AIPAC approved.
Unfortunately, I think it's exactly the opposite. They don't have to do anything that people want to vote for them anyway.
Blue Fash on Lemmy:
People on this website are understandably losing their minds because we've let this type of politics fester so much that the stakes are genuinely high this election cycle. But the stakes are only so high because we keep attempting the same thing over and over again. At this point, I'm not even advocating for a third party. I just want Democrats to do better instead of being less crappy than the other guys.
That would be Australia. We are less extreme than the US but still succumb to fear tactics. We did manage to get marriage equality despite a conservative government so there's that.
Make voting the last part of doing your taxes. You get $5 for voting. The person is already verified when submitting, piggyback on that process.
Isn't that how it works in Australia?