Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun...
by starkd on Thursday February 02, 2023 @11:49AM
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Not the point of this thread. Popular vote has nothing to do with how responsive or attentive a government is to voter's interests. You vote for a candidate as a whole, but there are likely still issues you disagree with. Voters' interests are largely unaddressed or ignored altogether.
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Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun...
by lazyasciiart on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:02PM
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It is completely the point of 'voters in specific states are largely disenfranchised during presidential elections'.
Re:Connecticut Parents Arrested for Letting Kids Walk to Dun...
by dragonwriter on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:02PM
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> Not the point of this thread. Popular vote has nothing to do with how responsive or attentive a government is to voter's interests
Actually, it does: more specifically, degree of proportionality does, and antimajoritarianism (systems in which an absolute majority-preferred option can lose to a minority option) are an extreme case of nonproportionality. Having a powerful central executive elected by nonmajoritarian election itself weights the government to nonresponsiveness (though the US has many other factors reinforcing that.)