16.1% of registered voters in Los   Angeles actually participated in yesterday’s city election.  It is a sad commentary on the belief that democracy works.  The message from the voters is that whoever they vote for the results will not change anything in city management.  We were all taught that elections mattered.  Apparently we have learned it just isn’t so.  Why vote if the outcome makes no difference?

This may not signal the end of democracy in the next few years.  However when I watch the Congress not doing its job it reinforces my suspicion that even at the highest levels of our society democracy is stumbling.

Those of you in other nations reading about the United   States and believing that we have the answers to making government work should consider our current performance.  Think twice or perhaps three or four times before joining this madness.