Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory represented the highest popular vote turnout in American history, receiving 81 million votes with “66% voter turnout”. Considering that the population in 2020 was 331 million (81÷331), only 24% of Americans, less than a quarter, voted for Joe Biden. Using this same formula Trump’s recent election was made possibly by only receiving votes from 22% of the population. Consistently, fewer than half of all Americans participate in the Democratic process
That’s all true but I don’t think that actually proves that the US isn’t a democracy. Australia has mandatory voting, nearly everyone votes in every election, and Australia has no more functional a democracy than we do.
The point isn’t about who voted, but moreso just an indication that such a small portion of the public actually choose to support the government. Therefore it isn’t representative
Obviously mandatory voting doesn’t make people choose to support a bourgeois government any more because it still doesn’t solve the problem or give people real choice
Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory represented the highest popular vote turnout in American history, receiving 81 million votes with “66% voter turnout”. Considering that the population in 2020 was 331 million (81÷331), only 24% of Americans, less than a quarter, voted for Joe Biden. Using this same formula Trump’s recent election was made possibly by only receiving votes from 22% of the population. Consistently, fewer than half of all Americans participate in the Democratic process
That’s all true but I don’t think that actually proves that the US isn’t a democracy. Australia has mandatory voting, nearly everyone votes in every election, and Australia has no more functional a democracy than we do.
The point isn’t about who voted, but moreso just an indication that such a small portion of the public actually choose to support the government. Therefore it isn’t representative
Obviously mandatory voting doesn’t make people choose to support a bourgeois government any more because it still doesn’t solve the problem or give people real choice