The "sorta-broken" system still works, sortagreen.
No it doesn't!!! You're deluding yourself. We've got people cheering and screaming when this lunatic tells his followers that people shouldn't vote.
Paul Weyrich: Goo-Goo Syndrome By John Amato
Father of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and various other groups tells his flock that he doesn't want people to vote. That's why the GOP is obsessed with voter fraud---only they want to disenfranchise voters because as Weyrich said back in the '80's...the more voters there are---the less of a chance the wingers have in any election.
Weyrich: "Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome -- good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. http://crooksandliars.com/2007/06/07/paul-weyrich-goo-goo-syndrome