return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 9 months agoStudy: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.act.represent.usexternal-linkmessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1824arrow-down127
arrow-up1797arrow-down1external-linkStudy: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.act.represent.usreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square143fedilink
minus-squareZeroHora@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months agoSorry but mandatory vote solves nothing. You’ll still have a lot of people alienate about politics and now they had to vote and they’ll make their choices like a popularity contest.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·9 months ago mandatory vote solves nothing It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote. In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.
Sorry but mandatory vote solves nothing. You’ll still have a lot of people alienate about politics and now they had to vote and they’ll make their choices like a popularity contest.
It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote.
In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.