05-31-2017, 05:42 PM
Quote: It seems you don't comprehend what I was saying. Disenfranchisement is being unable to have a voice in your government. If no one is even available to vote for that represents your views it can be seen as a type of disenfranchisement. Even if you are in the minority and you never vote for a winning candidate, if you have a candidate you feel comfortable supporting then you have had your voice heard.
I understand exactly what you are saying, and I am saying that if you are in this small minority that absolutely nobody even running represents, then maybe your point of view is out of whack. I don't really care if socialists and fascists don't have a candidate they feel comfortable voting for. I have an uncle in NY who is a flat out socialist, but he's also a pretty smart guy and understands that's not reality.
Quote: Or maybe we have a political system that is antiquated and needs updated, and not just because we have had the same number of representatives in our federal government we had a century ago when we were less than one-third our current population.
It needs updating if the people think it needs updating. If the people in general are fine with it now, then that's what we have decided our system should be. Because you or I or someone else thinks it's broken doesn't make it so. It's only broken if the people no longer want it. If it serves the people they way they want it to serve them, then it's working.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall
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