[BruinEric]

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When you look at the USA government, you are looking at the USA people.
It's a reflection.
If you don't like the government, you don't like the people; at least the pervading majority.

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The US government is not elected by a majority. They are elected by a plurality of those who are legally able to and actually do vote. And it's also not a national voting system either. We use an archaic electoral system such that your vote only counts towards your state's vote. As a result, the previous election was decided by an extremely small minority of the united states and in only two out of the fifty states. Oh yeah, and in those two states: one apparently 'lost' the registration for thousands of voters who would not have supported the current regime, and in the other state there was a massive discrepancy between the exit polls and what the actual results were.

So saying the US government is a reflection of the 'pervading majority' is just plain ignorant.

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You're ignoring the whole Congress thing. You know -- the body of Government that passed this law? The one with 535 members split between two bodies?

Inasmuch as majority view can be measured in periodic elections, the US Government represents it.

Sure there are limits to what *any* electoral system can measure. But that argument is minimally relevant here.

There are objections to the Presidential system with the electoral college. There are objections to the Senate system whereby my state of CA gets 2 members and tiny states also get 2 members. There are objections to the HR district lines too. Heck, there are objections to voter eligibility laws, such as felons who cannot vote. And of course, there are the many eligible voters who, mostly through their own choice, don't vote.

But the system was crafted through compromise and works well to reflect the will of the electorate.