The Census Bureau says about 60% of the folks who didn’t vote last November said they were “too
busy” or “not interested” or “forgot to vote” or “disliked the
candidates/issues.”
Let’s be frank:
these folks at least admitted that they just didn’t care about voting.
Only about 36% of
eligible voters went to the polls in the 2014 election. It was the worst
turnout since 1942.
Way too many people
don't feel a civic duty to participate in electing the folks who will run the
government.
Apparently too many
people don't see much personal advantage in voting for the representatives who
will have power over their lives.
I think a fair judgment is that the textbook concept of a representative democracy,
and democratic government in action, is a failure.
I tried to think of
a less bitterly disappointed way to say that.
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