What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Elections are about choices.
To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?
Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
Voters will decide how they want to be governed.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.