Elections are a formal and organized implementation of the fact that if there are 10,000 people on one side, and 500 on the other, than the 10,000 can win in a fight.
The founding fathers didn’t mean to lay down pure prescriptions for how everything was supposed to function, like computer code that all the humans were supposed to obey. They were just trying to strike a balance between that reality of life, versus having some kind of a system so everything wasn’t a big fistfight every four years and everyone could have a peaceful life. But elections are just a symbol for who can win if everyone gets motivated for it.
Elections are a formal and organized implementation of the fact that if there are 10,000 people on one side, and 500 on the other, than the 10,000 can win in a fight.
The founding fathers didn’t mean to lay down pure prescriptions for how everything was supposed to function, like computer code that all the humans were supposed to obey. They were just trying to strike a balance between that reality of life, versus having some kind of a system so everything wasn’t a big fistfight every four years and everyone could have a peaceful life. But elections are just a symbol for who can win if everyone gets motivated for it.
And they made the mistake of copying bad ideas from the UK voting system, which led to the problems that the US has nowadays.