Voting Essay

From how the average voter voices how their decided on their opinion, it is hard to state that the citizens of America can be evaluated across multiple policy areas. Contrary to the optimistic evaluation of many scholars who believe that policy as a whole and location on the political spectrum is most important to which way a voter votes, it is instead correct rather to say that each individual policy will sway individual voting blocks, “single-issue voters” are a frighteningly large margin of total voters. Politicians appear to recognize this often taking stances such as the pro-life stance which is used to win over the evangelical demographic or promising welfare increases to win over inner-city populations. This pattern of voting is shown …show more content…
The voting patterns, anecdotal evidence from the survey, and various experimental efforts /// make{* it very evident that ////the majority of support behind the ideas that support the view the American voter simply does not function how one should in a proper democracy that works as defined. The American democracy, despite not having a populace competent enough to make informed decisions, is able to function through the simple two party system. The level of gross incompetence is negligible when there is a system that is elementary for people to know which is right for them, whether it be through what your demographic is voting for, which party better covers the one issue you care about, or to have two people to pick between and voting on which you like more. This provides an answer to the commonly asked question by people, foreign and domestic, looking at our political system and asking why we have no alternatives than the two major parties while other countries, smaller and able to be more well informed, are able to work with elaborate political systems with a multitude of parties holding actual power. The system works, despite those who make it work being grossly unqualified to make it