Have we had an election where a majority of eligible Americans actually voted?
If has grown into what it is because the majority quit paying attention and/or have been misinformed and/or quit playing and stay home.
I doubt the SC's decisions here fully reflect a majority opinion, but it's what we have in our more or less one party system, complete with its false choices every election.
The election game is rigged. You won't get serious Constitutional changes until you first change the game, but there's no way the PTBs will let that happen, as votes, legislation and rulings continue to show.
Almost every presidential election year has a turnout of (sometimes barely) over half of the voting age population.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
“You can’t cheat an honest electorate.”
1) the Supreme Court’s decisions are not intended to reflect popular opinion. They are supposed to draw meaning from the Constitution and it was set up to protect against popular opinion. If there really is a popular opinion about something the Congress is intended to reflect it and change the Constitution to reflect that opinion. This is and was intended to be very difficult.
2) voter turnout is about 60% I believe. To me that is disgusting and not something that republics can long endure.
But people do not want to become that involved in politics or anything else really serious.
3) the election game is not rigged but it is partially the result of having a professional political party, the Democrat Party, go up against a semi-professional one, the Republican. One is utterly corrupt, the other semi-corrupt. One LOVES government, the other doesn’t. Democrats use it to buy votes, the other doesn’t.
4) whatever you would think of changing it would soon have to face the same facts we face today and the same forces.