Originally Posted by
Yngvi
I will read it.
My belief is that:
1. Universal suffrage does not work, which is why we were intended to have a constitutional republic with strong protections for civil liberties and restrictions on who could vote.
2. The system of checks and balances has broken down.
3. There is a massive amount of systemic fraud and abuse in our current iteration of the electoral system.
4. Most people are not smart enough, sufficiently informed enough, motivated enough or rational enough to demand accountability from corrupt or incompetent government officials. This effect is amplified by a mail-in balloting system,even if there were no fraud involved. The effects are very obvious in races for sheriff, judge retention and attorney general; Most people will usually just check the retention box without any knowledge of or care about what they are voting for. The others tend to do as they are told by the media or an authority figure. At least they voted, so they can virtue-signal about it to their friends, employers, neighbors.
I rarely vote, because the system has broken. I will vote for a select few officials in the hope that it matters and they can implement positive change.
I view the outcomes of most elections in modern day America as illegitimate.