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And what options are they giving us? The ones we want? If not then why are we voting for them at all?But voting really has very little impact, since whatever we vote on has already been determined by those in power. For example, the further we get from local government the fewer candidates we actually have input in the pre-selection process. Instead, we are bound to select from those candidates who are presented to us by the two major political parties. Doesn't this mean we are merely shifting between the options of either major party when we vote? How does that change anything?
What do you suppose would be the ultimate result of a Senate election where only 1% of the people who voted, voted for one of the two candidates in the race? You don't think both parties would take a good long look at that missing 99% and realize the potential to try to grab more votes? So many people sing the praises of capitalism yet seldom see the parallel in the political arena. To a politician, votes are no different than consumer dollars are to a business owner.
It may take a wordsmith to understand it but there's no reason all the wordsmiths can't get the word out as to what's really being said. Here, the newspaper is pretty good at telling us us when something is worded oddly on the ballot, which sometimes happens not so much to mislead people as just the way the legislation worked itself out in the state house or city council or whatever. It's not that hard to tell what you're voting on if you've been paying attention. If you've been asleep at the wheel until election day then it's not so obvious. It all comes back to the People taking the time to make the system work.Even in states where people can propose popular referedums, special interests can simply flood the ballots with options cleverly worded to sound positive, but actually run counter to what people really want. You'd need to be a wordsmith to fugre them out. Soooo, what exactly do you mean by taking more interest?
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