Politics under Pandemic: Total Wealth and Class Bias

Democratic-minded, reasonably conscious citizen as I think I am, I feel it is outright obscene for the primaries to proceed "as usual". I shudder as I read each new post about the so-called "results." Seriously, could any person who has ever completed a citizenship class seriously accept the idea that whatever the Democratic Party publishes as , say, "the Illinois Democratic primary results" actually represents what the actual majority of the actually existing Illinois voters think / want? If not, what exactly is going on? Do even those voters know, can they even know what they want? Being asked to vote in a time where their prime concerns are -- oh, I don't know, whether there will be food on the table tomorrow, whether they will be able to pay the rent in April, whether grandpa survives until Father's Day, whatever. Is it not possible that more well-off, suburban voters, already under perfect "social isolation" because of their wealth, the housing and urban spatial development patters of suburbia, etc., in other words, better-protected from the vicissitudes of life in a pandemic, will be more likely to bother to vote than less wealthy, more urban voters, closer to the precipice of precarity? Is there ever going to be even a conversation about this, let alone some serious thinking about how the system needs to be adjusted to account for such deeply ingrained bias? Or, should I allow myself to yield to the nagging feeling that that bias is, more or less exactly, just what the DNC wants, once and for all?

And all that under conditions of a near-total stupor of the public media, with infotainment "communication" channels actively promoting conceptual, mental, emotional, etc. tools whose exclusive purpose is suppressing thought, forestalling creativity and destroying any potential for progress in collective life. How could we even remotely call this a democratic process in which a well informed populace expresses their preferences?

On the one hand, we have an extremely "advanced," super-unequal, hyper-exploitative, globally parasitic, environmentally as well as socially unsustainable US economy, perfectly represented by its CEO, the head of the Executive Branch trying to cut out the rest of the world from access to the vaccine he is trying to snatch away from another country (mind you, supposedly an ally);

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on the other, a political system that is sadly unsuitable to the social reality on the ground, incapable of reflecting the needs of vast majorities of society.