"Democracy: A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives."
Tensions have reached all new high for the folks running the Republican establishment. Donald Trump whom they've underestimated from the beginning is closing in on the delegates needed to become the GOP presidential nominee. The people are voting in record breaking numbers and you would think the Republican Party would be ecstatic since it seems the GOP can finally over power their Democratic foes; however this isn't the case. The Republican Party instead is trying with all their power to derail or 'Dump Trump' as it is being put, even though Donald Trump seems to have ignited Americas interests back into the political process again. In a last ditch effort the GOP establishment is coming together against Donald Trump.
When Mitt Romney came back into the fight and introduced the controversial idea of encouraging republican voters to vote for whoever they think could beat Donald Trump, instead of just who they thought would makd a good President of the United States, and he stirred up anger against Donald Trump, things began to change Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz jumped on the aggressive attack team and also began to use a very aggressive attack tactic in everything they did, from the next debate to rallies to news interviews. The news began to report the possibility of a "Contested Convention" because of the new strategy of anyone but Trump. A contested convention happens when no one candidate can reach the predetermined amount of 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP presidential nominee. When Mitt Romney encouraged the public to vote for Cruz, Kasich, and Rubio in their home states to strip the delegates away from Trump so he can not reach the desired amount the primary process attitude seemed to begin to change.
Although more people have voted for Trump and he still will have the most delegates, the GOP can then ignore the peoples votes and select their own candidate to run for president. This is not democracy, this is corruption. Anger and frustration is beginning to surface in a rather big way and everyone is losing. The people feel like they have no voice, that what they call 'the establishment' is now controlling who will be president and is taking the voice away from the people. People have lost faith in government. We watch as politicians lie. (We have a democratic candidate who, because of her lies, now has controversy whirling around her so much so that if she isn't indicted people will believe the democrats are corrupt and letting her get away with it, and that she does whatever she wants, it is being compared to the executive decisions of our current president; that does whatever he wants too.) Media whose reporters are lawyers that twist the truth. Special interests groups and protest groups who only care about their own personal causes. Hidden corruption and super pacs that spend millions of dollars on negative ads.
We the people are divided, and seemingly separated from what goes on in the government. Most people would like to see change, but it is becoming more and more obvious that we the people have no voice. Paid protestors and special interests groups are getting involved in sometimes violent and disturbing ways and our media along with society capitalizes on these negative attacks. We the people are all left to watch and believe that we the people are no longer. Democracy, a system of government in which the power is vested in the people... does this definition even fit anymore?
