Liberals vote Democrat. Conservatives vote Republican. And independents slosh back and forth from election to election. This kind of democratic process is responsible for the government nearly everyone dislikes in America. The voters are responsible. Whether they assume that responsibility, has yet to be seen.
My personal opinion is that most voters vote for their Party and blame
bad government on the other party. In other words, most voters cop out of
their personal responsibility for government results. They cop out, because they don't want to accept the responsibility our democracy imposes upon its voters. That responsibility is to hold your OWN representative responsible for government.
If government is not what one hoped for, there is no one to whom a voter can turn, to address government results, other than their own representative. That is in fact, how the American democratic process is set up. Americans don't get to vote for any representatives other than those running for their own district or state. Voters have no power over all the other districts or states and how their representatives act. If voters don't hold their own representatives responsible on election day, government results do not change or, they worsen. More than three fourths of all US congressional incumbents running for reelection will win, regardless of how horrible government becomes.
That is the historical record of the last several decades. That is why our democracy sucks.
Bad government results are a result of your representative either, contributing to those negative results or, your representative failing to convince fellow representatives to change government for the better. Either way, your representative is failing to deliver on your hopes for better government results. So, how can it be logical to vote to reelect them?
Currently, in America, democracy sucks. It is failing its most basic principles, one person, one vote, and an informed and vested independent choice by each and every voter based on the most readily available information preceding an election. Democracy, we have been warned, is a terrible form of government, except for all the rest. Democracy can never be a perfect way of insuring responsible government. However, if it, and its principles, are vigorously defended by the voters, it doesn't have to suck.
Democratic elections can enable a more responsible and accountable government that self-corrects wrongs committed by its executors. This was the hope and design of the more enlightened founders of our nation. We have the responsibility of living up to that design as guardians of our democratically elected republic. We were handed a healthy newborn government with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, but like any newborn, what it becomes as an adult will be largely a result of the parenting it receives. We voters are now the guardians of our democracy and society. We must take charge of our founder's offspring to insure the best possible future for our own.
If government is not what one hoped for, there is no one to whom a voter can turn, to address government results, other than their own representative. That is in fact, how the American democratic process is set up. Americans don't get to vote for any representatives other than those running for their own district or state. Voters have no power over all the other districts or states and how their representatives act. If voters don't hold their own representatives responsible on election day, government results do not change or, they worsen. More than three fourths of all US congressional incumbents running for reelection will win, regardless of how horrible government becomes.
That is the historical record of the last several decades. That is why our democracy sucks.
Bad government results are a result of your representative either, contributing to those negative results or, your representative failing to convince fellow representatives to change government for the better. Either way, your representative is failing to deliver on your hopes for better government results. So, how can it be logical to vote to reelect them?
Currently, in America, democracy sucks. It is failing its most basic principles, one person, one vote, and an informed and vested independent choice by each and every voter based on the most readily available information preceding an election. Democracy, we have been warned, is a terrible form of government, except for all the rest. Democracy can never be a perfect way of insuring responsible government. However, if it, and its principles, are vigorously defended by the voters, it doesn't have to suck.
Democratic elections can enable a more responsible and accountable government that self-corrects wrongs committed by its executors. This was the hope and design of the more enlightened founders of our nation. We have the responsibility of living up to that design as guardians of our democratically elected republic. We were handed a healthy newborn government with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, but like any newborn, what it becomes as an adult will be largely a result of the parenting it receives. We voters are now the guardians of our democracy and society. We must take charge of our founder's offspring to insure the best possible future for our own.
