You forgot what John Stuart Mill already said so well in 1861:

"Two very different ideas are usually confounded under the name democracy. The pure idea of democracy, according to its definition, is the government of the whole people by the whole people, equally represented. Democracy as commonly conceived and hitherto practiced is the government of the whole people by a mere majority of the people, exclusively represented. The former is synonymous with the equality of all citizens; the latter, strangely confounded with it, is a government of privilege, in favor of the numerical majority, who alone possess practically any voice in the State. This is the inevitable consequence of the manner in which the votes are now taken, to the complete disfranchisement of minorities."

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson was the first person to devise a pure voting system?

We should have that system for local and State elections, but we don't.

In Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, they all have Thomas Jefferson's voting system. Nearly 100% of the voters can point their fingers to the person or party they personally voted for themselves.

I did the calculations for the US Senate in 2006. Just shy of 60% of the voters picked the winners. That means that the majority decision in the Senate is based on half these 60%, which is 30%. Now you know why money is spent disproportionally on neck-and-neck races that matter; everyone is basically ignored, taken for granted in as far as possible. Voters are always in a half-straight-jacket here.

In Sweden and the Netherlands, the majority decision is backed by about 50% of the votes for certain. We have just 30% that is required. That means our politicians, once in power, can ignore 70% of the voters because they were not important toward the win.

John Stuart Mill said it very elegantly. I don't have that in me. I just say that we are the victims of the Anglo voting system, winner-take-all, divide-and-conquer, while the Framers wanted more freedom for the voters, more and better representation.

Ask me for more details. I have lots.