There are electorates that are not as enlightened basically. Trump got the second largest vote total of any American president (aside from Biden). That’s the reality of who is actually out there in the country.
Contrary to popular belief, our representative democracy actually works. The representatives suck because look at who they represent. Mitch McConnell actually gets voted in every year.
Many electorates are not evolving or are evolving at a generational pace. Most of our common sense reforms like marijuana legalization or gay marriage are happening due to a generational shift where the new electorate votes differently than the last one. It will seem like disruption, but what will happen is we will stagnate again as this generation never changes their views again until they are dead.
This is very hard to disrupt unless we make most electorates across the nation open minded, willing to try different things, nimble (not necessarily fickle), and willing to vote differently throughout their lifetime.
You can take a look at how many times gay marriage legalization actually failed as a California ballot referendum, and that’s in the most liberal democratic state in the country. We consider that state to be a decade or two ahead of others in terms of ideas, and even they are slow.
Contrary to popular belief, our representative democracy actually works. The representatives suck because look at who they represent. Mitch McConnell actually gets voted in every year.
Many electorates are not evolving or are evolving at a generational pace. Most of our common sense reforms like marijuana legalization or gay marriage are happening due to a generational shift where the new electorate votes differently than the last one. It will seem like disruption, but what will happen is we will stagnate again as this generation never changes their views again until they are dead.
This is very hard to disrupt unless we make most electorates across the nation open minded, willing to try different things, nimble (not necessarily fickle), and willing to vote differently throughout their lifetime.
You can take a look at how many times gay marriage legalization actually failed as a California ballot referendum, and that’s in the most liberal democratic state in the country. We consider that state to be a decade or two ahead of others in terms of ideas, and even they are slow.