Wednesday, September 08, 2004
can we declare democracy dead yet?
it seems like the more we understand how elections really work, the more we can analyze what are "swing states" and "swing voters", the more obvious it becomes how little say all but a vanishingly small proportion of the electorate really have in how the country runs. the only thing keeping the government responsive to the will of the people may soon be the perception of a democracy that has no basis in the actual distribution of political power. the current administration seems to have realized this...not perceiving a democracy, they see no need to act as the leaders of one.
it seems like the more we understand how elections really work, the more we can analyze what are "swing states" and "swing voters", the more obvious it becomes how little say all but a vanishingly small proportion of the electorate really have in how the country runs. the only thing keeping the government responsive to the will of the people may soon be the perception of a democracy that has no basis in the actual distribution of political power. the current administration seems to have realized this...not perceiving a democracy, they see no need to act as the leaders of one.
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