This Los Angeles Times analysis of Mexico and Mexican public opinion says that the public is losing faith in democracy and in voting. The story shows a recent poll even shows that only 31% intend to vote in the 2015 congressional election. Thanks to Rick Kissell for the link.
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Edited By Richard Winger
100 percent P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
— otherwise the usual suspect gangster monarchs/ oligarchs fill the void [as in most of world political history].
The governments in Mexico are the military, the mob, the drug cartels, the politicians who get a cut of everything, and sometimes they are all one and the same.
Pure proportional representation will help increase voter turnout because everyone’s vote counts and votes aren’t liberally thrown away and wasted.
One can understand why people will risk death to escape the horrors of living in Mexico and other nations where death can come instantly from saying the wrong word, or being at the wrong spot. It is sad that our leaders sit idly by and allow such to happen. This is a Holocaust of its own kind, and I do believe our leaders have an obligation to create a foreign policy which would result in bringing destruction to such regimes and bring stability to such regions of the world.
Are we the world’s policemen? Yes we are, because there is no one else on this planet who will or has the ability to stop such horror and bring it to an end – just as we brought the Nazis of Germany and the Imperialists of Japan to a final destruction. Later, we succeeded in doing the same for the people behind the Iron Curtain, with the exception of the people who live today in China and North Korea. And of course, much can be said of those who today are under the threat of ISIS and those who would brutally rule the Middle East.
If we do not wake up to reality, the same type of gangster government will take over our government, and then other than God, who will save us? I have lived the bulk of my life and I know it. But for those who read this reply who are in their 20’s and even 30’s, you are the ones who will be faced with this problem. I trust, that whatever political party you may advocate for, or whatever political philosophy you stand under, that you will not let the United States (and then you might as well say the rest of the world) become an entity ruled by the mob and a corrupt political system.
May God lead you to do the right thing.