A lot of people, I fear, are inclined to stay home at election time because they are discontented with the way government is operating, particularly at the Congressional level.
Not to be harsh, but one reason government is so dysfunctional is that too many people stayed at home at election time in November 2010.
A couple of important consequences of that, in Wisconsin and many other states, are:
- our legislature is dominated by ALEC toadies, who
- redrew the district voters in such a way that the majority is represented by minority elected officials. That is, while Democrats won the popular vote in Wisconsin, our congressional delegation is 5-3 Republican.
So we have a government that is unresponsive to majority rule, and has less and less incentive to strive for compromise policy. Consequently we frequently have NO policy.
The more people vote, the better government is. Period.
So…