The United States, provides its citizenry with the opportunity to vote upon all sorts of pertinent things. For instance, depending upon the locale, so of, the people are entitled to vote for who and who does not represent them in the legislature, for judicial appointments, for sheriff appointments, and for propositions and referendums so placed upon voting ballots. Each of these opportunities to vote are provided in a way, in which, the majority, so of, subject to some exceptions in regards to a necessary plurality or an overwhelming majority on some ballot propositions -- thereby results in propositions that are passed or that have failed, and of legislative representatives so elected.
All of the above, would seem to imply, that our democratic institutions provide to the people, an ample and thereby a fair opportunity to obtain the type of governance as well as legislative laws, that are for those people, acceptable to them and of their desire. This would indeed seem to be the hope of that democratic vote so held in the hands of the people, but as in many things, there are the intentions of what a strong democracy in action is supposed to really represent, and then there is the reality of what so occurs in actuality.
The people live within a representative democracy, in which, those so elected by the people, are the representatives for the people; and of which, those representatives take upon themselves to subsequently appoint competent associates to help them in their legislative duties, as well as to assist them in prudently spending the allocation of monies so provided to them, so as to perform well those duties, on behalf of the people that they so represent. That is the theory, but what we so find, is that many of our public legislative servants, aren’t really beholden to the people, at all; but rather seem to be beholden far too often to those entities that have a lot of power, influence, and money, upon them, instead. In other words, our representatives, more times than not, do a very poor job of representing well the people that they are supposed to represent. This thus signifies, that within a democracy, to have the vote, while certainly having its place, doesn’t actually mean a whole lot, or signify much of anything of merit, when the people, in whole, are poorly served, therewith, by those legislatures and by those subsequent legislative acts.
It doesn’t much matter what a given Constitution does or does not say, or what a given law does or does not mean, or the unalienable rights that each of us is accorded -- if, when at the end of the day, what that Constitution so says is determined by those that answer not to the people, or when those good laws, are thereby twisted, turned and manipulated to the extent that they end up meaning not what they were meant to mean, or further when those unalienable rights that each of us is fairly entitled to are consistently trampled upon for the supposed necessary security, convenience, or desires of the state.
When those that are sworn to serve us, end up serving themselves instead, and primarily answer to the entities that unduly influence them, then the democratic vote, for all practical purposes, is null and void; replaced instead by powers so delegated to those representatives, that have consciously severed themselves from those people.