Discussion for article #221270
That’s astonishing.
It also feeds into something else I’ve noticed about the US as an external observer: the lack of any real attempt to win a broad mandate by actually convincing 50% +1 of the population of a certain view point.
Admittedly being somewhat idealistic, I tend to think that the purpose of democracy (and elections) is to ensure, as best as possible, that majority views become law. In the US so few vote and the Electoral College and the Senate are so warped from the equal worth of a vote, that the nexus between a majority view and an election winning view is broken.
Rather than screaming in rage, the US seems to accept this distortion and then try to make the best of it. But it means “politics” is well and truly removed from “democracy” as I see it.