Commentary With the approval of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, it now turns out the U.S. government is even in control of a “kill switch” that could disable your car if you are deemed “impaired.” Likely few voters realized the 2020 election was essentially a referendum on whether or not the feds allow you to drive your car. Elections should matter, but only if you care who gets the contract to repaint the town sign. However, for questions of individual significance, elections shouldn’t matter whatsoever. And they shouldn’t matter, since a vote cannot resolve questions of significance. Nevertheless, elections do matter, especially federal ones, which explains the rising rancor and sectional division in our society. As the realm of the state expands, the questions being decided by a ballot—whether office or issue—are rarely inconsequential or trivial. Instead, the answers to those questions decide who, through the state, gets to initiate aggression and …
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