Registered voters are not the whole & will of the American people?
In the end, any system of government will have to strike a balance between efficiency and building meaningful power blocs while also respecting the rights of minorities
I saw this on a far-left subreddit on Reddit: "Registered voters are not the whole & will of the American people."
Okay, but what is the whole & will of the American people? When I was younger I was part of a radical community where all decisions had to be made by 100% consensus. It was a nightmare. We'd have meetings that lasted 8 hours and in the end nothing was decided because there was always someone who would disagree. The place fell apart because we weren't able to make decisions. The beautiful radical ideals meant nothing because we had no practical way to transform those ideals into real decisions in the real world. So I learned that 100% consensus doesn't work, at least outside of religious contexts (Quakers make all decisions by 100% consensus, but you have to go through proper training to become a congregant and then you are expected to respect certain essential rules, such as respect for "Weighty Friends," which is really just another way of not following a strict 100% consensus decision making style.)
No reasonable person wants to see a "tyranny of majority" so we all support various procedures that respect the rights of minorities, and yet in every Western democracy the debate continues about how much power the majority should have.
In the end, any system of government will have to strike a balance between efficiency and building meaningful power blocs while also respecting the rights of minorities, and wherever the line is drawn, at this current moment, or any current moment, someone will disagree with it and call it arbitrary. If there is a guiding rule that holds across the decades, it has to be a measure of how many people respect the system enough that they want to continue to modify the system without breaking the law. That is, almost everyone wants to see the system change in some way, but are they willing to change the system while obeying the laws of the system?