Democracy Betrayed- How Superdelegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election
✍ Scribed by Rosenfeld, Steven
- Book ID
- 109629527
- Publisher
- Hot Books
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781510729452
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
An impassioned takedown of the undemocratic features of American electoral politics and their role in the 2016 election. Americans are taught to cherish our democracy, especially our right to vote. But after the 2016 presidential election, we are confronted, yet again, with the reality that our system is neither free nor fair. Almost every step along the way is filled with intentional and unintentional pitfalls, barriers, and dysfunction. The results disadvantage, discourage, and ultimately disenfranchise, but a myth persists that our elections and democracy are exemplary. Our system is adept at pre-empting the very citizens whose participation would upend governing classes and economic elites. That's done by making voting more complicated, less accountable and resistant to reform. Whether we're talking about voter ID laws, superdelegates, convoluted state recount rules, or the archaic Electoral College, procedures have greater weight than democratic principles, or...