Historically speaking, the purpose of voting was largely to provide some form of “revolutionary” capacity to change the leadership of a people without violence. The higher powers might not allow the decision (i.e., fix an election) or may offer false choices, but the goal was to ameliorate the passions of the citizenry. In effect, every two, four, or six years, the American republic provided a vote that at least made the people believe things might change without the need for guns. Occasionally, minor changes seemed great to a populace used to nominal differences in a continual slide toward globalism.
Now comes Trump – yet again. This short article is not about Trump, per se. Rather, it is about the continual belief in voting as a form of implementing change. More importantly, it is about the moment in which that belief no longer exists. Trump may or may not “win” in November, but his victory would likely be empty because of the design of the system itself (assuming a billionaire New Yorker is not in on it).
