Does Your Vote Really Matter?
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The collective ability of a population to vote for how they want their society to be run, is basically the definition of a “democracy”. But the United States isn’t a democracy, not really. It’s actually a federal presidential constitutional republic, where individual votes actually hold different amounts of power based on where they’re located, and in some cases, may not be worth anything at all. So, does your vote actually matter? Well, it depends. First of all, the biggest question is: what are you voting for? In the presidential election you might think you’re voting for president, but you aren’t. Instead, election day is more like a big opinion poll of the American people which is then sometimes used by an entirely different group of people to choose the president. And those vot...
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The collective ability of a population to vote for how they want their society to be run, is basically the definition of a “democracy”. But the United States isn’t a democracy, not really. It’s actually a federal presidential constitutional republic, where individual votes actually hold different amounts of power based on where they’re located, and in some cases, may not be worth anything at all. So, does your vote actually matter? Well, it depends. First of all, the biggest question is: what are you voting for? In the presidential election you might think you’re voting for president, but you aren’t. Instead, election day is more like a big opinion poll of the American people which is then sometimes used by an entirely different group of people to choose the president. And those vot...
