How about a Voters' Revolution?

[MineralMan]

26. Here's what I think about that:

You're right, in a sense. But, changing the things you mention requires legislative action. And the only way to make it happen is to elect better legislators. A single election could do that, frankly. We need only 18 more House seats to have a simple majority in the House of Representatives. With that majority, we'd be closer to implementing legislation that would improve the voting process.

The same is true in individual states. Democratic control of state legislatures will achieve a great deal. Here in Minnesota, we regained control of our State legislature in 2012, and the result was enactment of marriage equality, a budget surplus, and it looks like raising the minimum wage in our state is likely.

One election changed the nature of our state legislature and positive change resulted.

Our turnout in 2012 was higher than usual, but not as high as in 2008. But, the nature of that turnout resulted in Democratic majorities in our state legislature. In 2008, Republicans gained control, even though the state voted for Obama with a large margin. Why? Because there was poor coordination between the Obama campaign and campaigns for other offices. Al Franken, for example, barely squeaked through in a recount. He should have won with the same margin as Obama.

One election can turn things around, even if not every non-voter votes. Imagine what would happen if we turned out a much higher percentage of eligible voters.

It's easy to say it won't work. It's much more difficult to actually find out if it will work. That would take a strong, organized, concerted effort. I say that's worthwhile. Others might argue that point, but it hasn't really been tried on a massive scale.