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In reply to the discussion: Baltimore’s Election Results Are Decertified as State Investigation Is Launched [View all]apnu
(8,790 posts)Like the US Patent System, the United States has left the electorial process alone for over a hundred years. I don't mean voting machines, I mean the actual process. The Primary System, leaving states to make up rules willy-nilly, letting the political parties make up rules willy-nilly. The whole point of the EC being invalid today -- all of it. America, simply, has not re-examined the election process and made it fair.
Our two political parties no longer function of the people and by the people. Instead they function to prosecute thier own agendas and everybody else, they feel, doesn't deserve their representation. If a voter isn't already 100% on board with which ever party's establishment, then the party thinks, "fuck you, you're not worth my time"
With this attitude, it is virtually impossible to get our two partisan parties to straighten this shit out and come up with fair election rules. The very second, we, all of America that is, start looking at election rules and regulations, both parties will co-opt that process to create a system that suits them best, effectively creating a one-party government.
The American experiment is failing right now because Americans aren't involved in the process.