Do the Politicians We Vote for Get Into Office? Or is Something Else Going On?

Many people think that the American voters actually elect the politicians who govern us. It is my opinion, because I cannot prove it to be fact, that we do not actually elect the politicians who get into office. I don't think the voters in Germany elected Hitler either. I guess I could be wrong about all of this, but what I see happening in the world today at the state and federal level with regards to who gets into office just doesn't seem to add up. The American public simply cannot be as blind as the polls make us appear to be. In many cases, a candidate gets in even when it seems there is no merit and the majority of the average citizens in the count say they are against him or her. Why is that?

I believe the electoral college system to be rigged, and it needs to be abolished. A flat out vote count of every vote made is possible today, because we have the computing power to do it. So why is it that we still rely upon and accept a system that is easily manipulated and subject to hidden corruption.

Secondly, why is it that we only get a real choice of one candidate from each party? I for one do not and have never voted based on party affiliation. I vote for an individual not a party. It tics me off when the person who I wanted to vote for didn't make it past the primary. I'd rather see there be no primary at all. Let's just get right to the real deal. Wow! how much money could the taxpayers save if it worked like that.

Let them all run the race to the finish, count every single stinking vote cast, and then I will be more inclined to believe that the choice was made by all of the voters, from all of the available candidates. I bet we'd see a different caliper of people representing us and then, if they didn't do the job, we'd be able to directly tell them so at the next election. These career politicians would now have to face up or go home.