They were smart about creating a system where the effect of popular opinion is minimized. It's truly marvelous how everyone votes and everyone more or less wants the same things but the votes or wants never actually matter.
Yeah they were careful in only extending the electoral system to groups of people (workers, women and black people) once they were assured electoralism would be useful to control those demographics.
They were smart about creating a system where the effect of popular opinion is minimized. It's truly marvelous how everyone votes and everyone more or less wants the same things but the votes or wants never actually matter.
Yeah they were careful in only extending the electoral system to groups of people (workers, women and black people) once they were assured electoralism would be useful to control those demographics.
Not just suffrage but the intricate political rules and mechanisms in place to dilute and distort popular will.