Believe it or not: Our voting system is to blame. Get ready for some structural truths that you did not consider before, but will recognize in what you wrote here.
We have winner-take-all. It means that a single person gets the seats and that the majority gets the one they voted for. We can translate this into flipping a coin, and it always ending up being heads for the one winning the seat.
All people sitting in the political seats received heads when the coin was flipped. Those voters that picked tails ended up without representation.
So far, simple enough. It gets trickier seeing that Democratic winners and Republican winners all received the same structural outcome: heads up. We tend to not think in those structural manners.
Let's next divide our nation in three layers, and in the middle layer, the struggle which person ends up getting the heads up is indeed a real political struggle. In the center of society, the political decisions are meted out in political battles.
The bottom layer of society, having received tails only, is not really involved in these battles A good number of them stopped voting altogether because it is not seen as helping them much, and life is complicated enough already just keeping your head above water. For them, good cop helps them the same as bad cop: Nothing good comes from cops.
For the top layer in society, the outcome is always heads. It does not matter if the Republicans or the Democrats are in control. Like a sailboat, the sails change directions and the boat moves forward to whatever desired destination. Heads it is, darling.
Our voting system makes us behave the way we do. Those swimming near the bottom of society may get a handout or two, but they are ultimately on their own.
Those floating near the top of society (in wealth of fame) are not bound to the voting system. They are not bound by society's rules.
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Thank you for being upset that some of us receive a different treatment than others. We should all be outraged.
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I write about our political structure and why it is ancient and should be replaced (which it can already in some parts, today). Here is one of my latest articles:
'And the Winner is: The Losing Party.'
https://medium.com/the-national-discussion/and-the-winner-is-the-losing-party-c683c1d739e5
It sounds incorrect, but -no- it is true.
