Low voter turnout gives special interests more power
Hawaii has had the lowest voter turnout in all 50 states! Various reasons have been given, but the real reason is that voters have lost hope or fled the state.
Despite politicians’ promises, it has been decades of the double whammies of low wages and high cost of living. Today, Hawaii young couples can even remember not only their parents but their grandparents having had to work the now sad standard three to four jobs between a couple — just to make ends meet.
Political “solutions” have simply made the problems worse over all. Most Hawaii politicians campaign that their constituents get a larger slice of the small pie rather than increasing the size of the pie for everybody.
Things will not get better if the trend continues because low voter turnout gives special interests even more power (less voters to manipulate and cheaper to buy politicians).
Hope in the vote!
Leighton Loo
Mililani, Oahu