10. Leaders are driven purely by a desire for votes.
Do you think that President Obama chose to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants because it was the right thing to do, or was it because demographics suggest that this would be politically expedient for his political party? In the same vein, the President is now suggesting mandating voting, not long after his party’s base did not turn out in the 2014 elections, and Congressional Democrats took a beating. Lastly, across the country (and particularly on college campuses), liberal groups love spending their time registering people to vote. This may seem like a benevolent and harmless act, but it is a carefully calculated strategy. They may also register conservatives and Republicans, but the odds are in their favor that the more people they register, the better it is for the Democratic Party. All of these policies together suggest just one way in which a democratic system can incentivize politicians to view people as numbers, rather than human beings.
