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That's not how democracy works. yoie goverment is indeed a representative of the majority.
More people should have realised that voting is not a right. It is a commitment and a responsibility
We no longer have one. Our elected leader is gone rogue.
Besides, our current leader has never received the majority of the popular vote, and our voting turnout has never been as much as half the populace. In my lifetime, no president has ever received so much as 60% of the popular vote.
The theory is good, but any idea that any President is representative of what the US people want is sunny not true, verging on impossible.
You are right in that’s not how democracy works. Unfortunately, due to gerrymandering and Citizens United, it’s how the U.S.’s bastardized version of it “works.” Thanks to gerrymandering in my state (which is a test bed for much of the nonsense we’re now seeing at the federal level), I have absolutely no voice in our state legislature, which has recently decided to neuter the other two (actually democratically elected) branches of government here.
So it's game over?
The government is not a representative of the majority, he is elected by a majority to be a representative of the whole. That's how democracy works.
You are right - this is what i meant.