The New York Times Just Accidentally Proved This Election Is A Sham

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When Americans vote in November they will be voting to keep their most disliked candidate out of office rather than voting to elect a President, such is the deep unpopularity of the two nominees, Clinton and Trump.

When Americans vote in November they will be voting to keep their most disliked candidate out of office rather than voting to elect a President, such is the deep unpopularity of the two nominees, Clinton and Trump.

How did this happen? The New York Times just accidentally proved the illegitimacy of US democratic elections when they published an interesting analysis on Monday showing only 14% of eligible voters actually voted for the two nominees combined.

This figure might seem staggeringly low, but The New York Times points out that the turnout in this years primary elections is nearly identical to recent primaries. A very low percentage of citizens choosing who will eventually claim to have won a popular vote is actually nothing new.

AntiMedia report:

The United States is supposed to be a democratic republic where the entire population is represented by people elected to do their bidding. But how can politicians claim to have a legitimate mandate to create laws that affect the entire population when they are put in place by a fraction of said population?

General elections, though, historically attract more voters than primaries do. In the 2012 election, President Obama was elected with 51.1 percent of the popular vote, compared to 47.2 for Mitt Romney. But only 57.5 percent of the voting population cast their ballots, meaning President Obama still only secured the votes of 29 percent of voters.

While the media tells a tale of a divided country, wherein 50 percent of the public falls into the Democratic Party and the other half aligns with the Republican Party, the truth is much more concerning. The U.S. government is elected by a handful of dedicated partisan voters, and disenfranchised non-voters often have that minority’s opinion forced onto them. This isn’t democracy, it’s rule by the minority. But it gets worse.

A new poll from Pew Research Center shows the most ardent voters are not necessarily proud of their own party’s platform; rather, they are simply more scared of the other party’s.“In other words, a voter’s dislike of others is a greater driving force in politics than their affinity for their own party. As the Pew survey found, ‘those who associate three or more negative traits with people in the opposing party (as 37% of Democrats and 44% of Republicans do) participate in politics at the highest rates.’”

This trend can basically explain the entire 2016 presidential election so far. But it still gets even worse.

Regardless of whether or not hyper-partisans’ candidates of choice win or lose, those politicians rarely actually represent their views — nor do they care to. Rather, as a 2014 Cambridge University study, often referred to as the “oligarchy study,” concluded, “economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.” This research reinforces a recent Boston Globe article entitled, “Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.”
This brings us to the final question: are voters to blame for their lack of participation?

No, they are not. It’s not the public’s fault for becoming disillusioned with a system that has forgotten them. All the votes in the world would not have stopped the DNC from tampering with the 2016 primary, and nearly all the candidates who are legitimately elected by voters don’t bother listening to them once they get to Washington, anyway.

We don’t have a democratic system anymore. We have a government made up of politicians who were elected by a small minority of hyper-partisan voters, and that political apparatus rules in the interests of an even smaller minority of hyper-rich elites. The fact that American politicians cannot inspire an actual majority to vote for them renders the current elections illegitimate.

At this point, a protest non-vote or voting third-party is more effective than an angry partisan vote because you are sending a clear message that the majority does not consent to our supposed mandated rulers.

Now it’s time for the people who didn’t vote for the politicians in power to have their representation.

And about that timeless saying, “If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain” — perhaps the opposite is true.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at The People's Voice. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear.
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18 Comments

  1. Hillary shows a smug arrogance as she obviously believes the fix is in and she’s the elitist’s new U.S. President.  All that in spite of overwhelming evidence that clearly shows she should be in a federal prison.  She shows herself to be an utter fool to make her plans and never look to the Lord for His approval or blessing.  God is never mocked and only an utter fool would do so now.  All of Hillary’s crooked dealings and myriad of lies will be exposed for all to see.  

  2. Please Hillary isn’t smug at all. She is a confident woman and anyone in their right mind would vote for her not only because we don’t want Crazy Narcissistic Trump who takes advantage and continually lies to are Vets and anyone else who will listen. TRUMP IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE HE IS VINDICTIVE AND HAS NO SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!! Hillary would be my choice no matter what she is SMART CAPABLE EXPERIENCED AND HAS A PLAN THAT IS WRITTEN DOWN NOT JUST IN HER HEAD! SHE ALSO TURNED IN HER TAXES NOT LIKE THE DEVIL & THIEF TRUMP. THIS WOMAN HAS GONE THROUGH HELL FOR 40 YEARS WITH A HOLES TRYING TO TAKE HER DOWN BUT THEY DON’T HAVE ANYTHING ON HER THAT IS WHY SHE IS STILL GOING STRONG. GOD BLESS HER AND MAY SHE WIN AND BECOME THE NEXT UNITED STATES PRESIDENT. 

  3. For all the Hillary haters and the Trump lovers. It would take days to list all the out and out lies that he has told. What is worst is he is so vain and sick that maybe he even believes his own lies. Trump’s only agenda is to keep feeding his ego even if it means his only supporters are people he thinks are beneath him. lol

  4. All I can say is the survey was right when it stated that majority of Trump supporters are uneducated Caucasians.

  5. Hillary Clinton is for the middle class and the poor. She has a plan to create more jobs if you go to her website you can see it in detail and wants to increase the minimum wage to make it a living wage. She is SANE and she has been in public service for many years and fights for the equal rights. She plans on increasing the amount of tax that the very wealthy pay right now their percentage that they pay in tax is less than what the middle class pays. She want to lower the tax for the middle class. She has written down a plan on how she would like this to be done also she mentioned about bringing trade jobs back which to me makes a lot of sense because not everyone is academically equal some people are better making a living with a trade. I believe in her and trust her. Of course to have this done we need to vote for democrats in the senate right now a lot of laws don’t get passed to help the poor and middle class because it is predominately republican.  Yes she has made mistakes any one working hard does make mistakes we are all human. She doesn’t say I want to bring jobs back to America and yet has a million dollar clothing line that she sells in America but has them all made overseas. She also turned in her Taxes which would not look good if she didn’t. She isn’t egotistical & manipulative and self serving.

  6. good article…succinct..the lack of commentary is not altogether surprising..where is the entertainment?..don’t allow that to dissuade your technique…i’ve perused too many articles prior to reading your’s.. your article relayed the information i sought without unnecessary embellishment..peace

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