That is an incredible amount of power given to such a few people. Demographically, the world population —the total number of humans currently living— was estimated at 7.4 billion this year while the US population at 324 million represents slightly over 4% of the globe.
Currently there is much news and disbelief about the results of the 2016 Presidential election. It's true so much uncertainty about the results are cause for anxiety, but for me, living outside the US, what is even more unnerving is that so few people were involved in the election process especially given their dominace of the world.
Results of this election, as indicated in the chart above, roughly even split the vote between the major candidates of Trump and Clinton, but what is also so disheartening is the fact that 40% of eligible voters did not vote. And of that 40, there were 72 million Americans (83%) who did not even take the time to register to vote.
Now to make this last election process even more pitiful is that half of the primary voters chose candidates other than Trump or Clinton. Just 14% of eligible adults voted for either Mr. Trump or Ms. Clinton as the Rep/Dem presidential candidate giving the american public no one from which to choose. So even if the entire nation had voted in the election, the primary candidates were still only put forth by a mere 9% of the nation or 32 million people to control the world.
Who do you vote for when there is rubbish under both bushes?
