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That’s the issue. A handful of billionaires who don’t feel the constitution serves them. Why should people as special as them only get one vote? It’s absurd. And so they buy votes via the same people who take a vow to serve the constitution, but like the special life given to them by excess wealth more.
It’s the same story as Trumps first term, in a way. People had to face the fact that the population had a large swath of people imbued with racism and misogyny. Some knew, sure, but the blatant nature of its current prevalence then had to be faced by everyone else. People realized he was the culmination of that ethos that had been simmering for some time.
Same thing this term, different context. Campaign finance, citizens united, corporations are people, a tax system that keeps shifting more and more wealth upward, an utterly absurd minimum wage. ALL of that is about men who feel they deserve more than 1 vote. Now, this term, we’re feeling more than just the financial end, the full force of just how broken the system is, how much “we the people” just don’t matter any more, to a bunch of people who feel entitled to more than one vote for themselves. The billionaires did as they liked, now everyone else feeling power is doing the same, per their own wishes and beliefs, and not anything to do with the constitution.
Next up, they won’t take the vote from us, per se, but a subset of men are going to reform the tax code to push women into the house, into perma-marriage, into kids. HIPAA, for women, will likely be removed (it’s in p25) I se the guise of promoting family heath. Financial freedom made women’s lib possible, for a mere 50 years, and now the next move is to start rolling that back in a way that will begin similar to the way trickle up economics worked from about 1981 to now. Slow enough that it’ll be like a frog in a slow boil until women are in the 2020s of where the lower 90% found ourselves financially now.
It all comes down to people who just don’t like the one vote per person system. They don't like the American constitution being the fundamental power.
And so, those of us who do believe in one vote per person continue to believe that is what solves this. Pretty to think so. But it’s going to take much more to buck oppression than the one action that’s worked in past decades. That’s history. That’s not now. Yes, vote, while you still can. But the reality is that while we are under the thumbs of a handful of people who have no respect or belief in the one vote per person system, just voting will never solve this.