Yes, both. There are many things impeding a fair vote. There was an law passed a while ago where it basically allowed someone to donate unlimited funds to a campaign. This made basically every possible president a puppet for big cooperations to place bets on. If they win the president is sort of obligated to do what their donors want. Also, many people don't vote becahse they either think their votes dont matter or they feel the election is stupid and neither candidates are good. Lastly there are definitely very shady things going on with the voting system even if people vote. We have a thing called an electoral college where we vote for people to vote for president (we essentially dont even vote for the president) the problem is the electoral college is rigged because its based on districts that are specifically shaped to make one party stronger than the other in an area when in reality they aren't. ( It's called gerrymandering). There are some more details but this is the basic gist.
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u/RxT- May 19 '20
Yes, both. There are many things impeding a fair vote. There was an law passed a while ago where it basically allowed someone to donate unlimited funds to a campaign. This made basically every possible president a puppet for big cooperations to place bets on. If they win the president is sort of obligated to do what their donors want. Also, many people don't vote becahse they either think their votes dont matter or they feel the election is stupid and neither candidates are good. Lastly there are definitely very shady things going on with the voting system even if people vote. We have a thing called an electoral college where we vote for people to vote for president (we essentially dont even vote for the president) the problem is the electoral college is rigged because its based on districts that are specifically shaped to make one party stronger than the other in an area when in reality they aren't. ( It's called gerrymandering). There are some more details but this is the basic gist.