We like to think of politics as something happening to us, a spectacle we watch from the sidelines. But the truth is harder to swallow: the people in office are a reflection of the people who put them there—or didn’t bother to vote at all.
In North Dakota, low voter turnout leaves a lot of decisions to a few. And when the results bring chaos or controversy, it’s easy to disavow responsibility, like a kid standing next to a broken lamp. But we know how it happened.
And if you don’t believe it’s true, Rob Port has the evidence in this column at Inforum.com.
