The GROUP that wins in every election

 

The GROUP that wins in every election

Wow!  Turnout was high in the Wisconsin election between the Right-wing Republicans and the Left-wing Democrats – 47% of those who could have voted, actually VOTED.  It was not really very close if you look at the real election results.

1.   53% voted “I don’t care” because they didn’t show up

2.   23.5% Right-wing

3.   23.5% Left-wing

The, “I don’t care political Party” won the election two to one.  It got a majority of all possible votes.  That is the way all elections in the USA go.  The vast majority of Americans don’t care about democracy, freedom, the government, wars, taxes, schools, Social Security and Medicare.  The list of what the “I don’t care party” doesn’t care about is long and includes everything that really matters in America.

Years ago I believed that America was the most democratic country in the world, but the facts prove otherwise.  The UN says there are 117 democracies in the world out of 200 countries, but only about 36 are liberal democratic countries; countries where every adult can vote.  Among these America ranks last in voter turnout, healthcare, and first in war and military spending.

In fact America is now the largest military threat in the world with our troops and secret armies killing people every single day somewhere in the world.

America has the lowest taxes on the rich, highest poverty rates in the western world, worst schools, richest rich people, poorest poor people and we still spend as much as the rest of the world combined on war and killing.  America supports 20 dictators around the world, helping them deny freedom and democracy to over one billion people, but we say we love freedom.

The income and wealth gap is now the largest in our history.  The top 1% richest Americans take 25% of all income and the top 10% take over 50% of all income.  The bottom 50% of all workers, get just 17% of all income.  Pay for the CEOS is now 400 times the average worker wage, it was 100 times for decades.  Wages for the average worker have fallen since Reagan.

So as the “I don’t care political party” increases in size we can expect to see a lot of changes in America, but they will be made by a minority of Americans. 

When people don’t vote they give great power to those who do.  So we now have a situation in America where 23.5% (less than in one in four) gets to make all the decisions for the 76.5% of the rest of us.  That looks a lot like minority rule to me.

The real question is at what point does America stop being a democracy?  I think we past that point a long time ago.

What say you?

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