2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New Loras Poll: Sanders does better with better educated, more liberal Democrats. [View all]AOR
(692 posts)Many are smart enough to recognize this current sham of a political system for what it is. Low voter participation is an indictment of the corrupt nature of the current two-party political system and not an indictment of the "stupidity" of the people who do not vote or low-information voters. The majority of the struggling working class people - who don't bother to vote on "both sides" - know from bitter experience that the political system is all fucked up and corrupted by big money to the point of disrepair. They know that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. They know that the government and the majority of people in power - at all levels (including local) - are corrupt lying mutts doing the bidding of big money and nothing else. For most "uneducated" working class people it's no "revelation" that those in power are lying dogs serving their own interests. By that knowledge alone, they're far more radical and left wing that the supposed "left" activists who still think elections alone will change social/economic conditions on the ground in any way other than platitudes and lip-service.