Voting is the bedrock process on which democracy rests: one person, one vote, majority rule. The first peaceful transfer of political power in world history took place right here in the United States on March 4, 1801, John Adams (Federalist Party) relinquished the presidency to Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican Party.) They were bi…
Voting is the bedrock process on which democracy rests: one person, one vote, majority rule. The first peaceful transfer of political power in world history took place right here in the United States on March 4, 1801, John Adams (Federalist Party) relinquished the presidency to Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican Party.) They were bitter enemies. Today, MAGA Republicans know that they are not the majority, that they cannot win a fair and open election in many if not the great majority of cases. Therefore, they rig the system against the one-person, one-vote, majority-rule process. Why? How is it, for example, that tens of millions of Americans support a man who is a known liar, cheat, convicted rapist with 91 felony charges against him? It's because he represents their desire to establish a white Protestant supremacy political system here, and it is so important to them that they are willing to quash democracy.
Richard, speaking of voting, it would seem Kevin McCarthy could outflank his extremist contingent (just 20 or 22 of his Republican'ts?) in the House by reaching across the aisle to work with Democrats and Independents who recognize the folly of defaulting on the national debt, the folly of caving into extremists who would take our country's finances hostage. I recognize that it has become an almost forgotten skill in recent congresses, yet "working across the aisle" to preserve our country and to produce workable legislation which the majority in the House could support to keep the government functioning was once considered an honorable and desirable shared by our greatest leaders...from both sides!
Yes, but spineless Keystone Kev will face losing his speakership if he does this. He could put a stop to this nonsense in a nanosecond if he would reach across the aisle. Instead the House is really run by a small loud minority of people who do nothing but rant and don't get on with the business of governing. Quite the group: Herr Gaetz, Gangrene, Gym and the Groping Gunslinger Barbie. etc. Aside from not being able to do what they need to do to keep the government running and more, they are griping about what Fetterman wears in the Senate. This after the theater fiasco by Groper Gunslinger and her date.
Spineless Qevin will continue to face losing his Speakership as long as he keeps caring to HIS MAGA masters. No concession will ever be enough. And, they have no scruples about keeping any agreements they make anyway.
"House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) believes that his position is dependent on the Freedom Caucus not throwing him out of office like they did the last two Republican leaders. So the first thing he did when the House returned from summer break—only three weeks from the deadline—was to unilaterally initiate an impeachment investigation against Joe Biden. This was done entirely to cozy up to the obstinate hard right. But even before McCarthy made the announcement, they all said this would not mollify them at all. So predictably, when asked how an impeachment inquiry would affect their demands on spending, Freedom Caucus member Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) said, “Zero. Zero. They’re totally unrelated.”
Only in Washington would you respond to a set of demands with an unrelated demand and expect that to work: It’s like a manager responding to workers wanting to see the air-conditioning fixed at the office by bringing in a pinball machine."
Trump's friends showed us how easy it is to meddle with the electoral college. Still, nobody talks about abolishing it, at least not seriously, even though it's the most logical way to protect "one person, one vote." In 2016, I was living in Egypt (where there are no electors for expats and our votes are set aside to be used as tie-breakers should they be necessary, where we saw the worst president in US history get elected by a small group of people who thought they knew better than the voters. Instead of the electoral college protecting us from bad choices, they cursed us with a deranged clown in orange makeup and a floppy suit.
One possible solution is to eliminate the "winner take all" systems and make it proportional to the votes received. the Founding Fathers never could have conceived that one state (California) could have a population equal to sixteen other states. This holds true for the Senate as well. It may be that there is no other solution than dissolution of the government. This would send shock waves around the world since a powerful U.S. government is the principal guarantee for democracies in many of the world's countries.
The government as it was set up in the late 1700s just cannot work efficiently anymore. There are too many people, too many states, and we've just begun to exploit the many weak spots the Founding Fathers never thought of. In our history 5 times a president won the electoral vote while losing the popular vote. This should be unacceptable, but of course it wasn't. Basically they invented this method because they couldn't think of anything else.
And representation in a democracy should be population-based, but states each have 2 senators regardless of how many people live there. Nobody else on earth has such a "democracy."
I agree 100%, representation should be one person, one vote, majority rule. And, given that the country is as much divided now between the forces of democracy, on the one hand, and authoritarian despotic rule, on the other hand, just not purely geographically, makes the prospect for holding it together going forward look bleak. The modern Confederacy (MAGA/KKK Republicans) will ultimately destroy the Union so that they can have their white Protestant autocracy.
Right on, Richard. The party of death has nothing to offer ordinary people, even the ones that support death star. They get support for their hatred and bigotry and that's all.
Voting is the bedrock process on which democracy rests: one person, one vote, majority rule. The first peaceful transfer of political power in world history took place right here in the United States on March 4, 1801, John Adams (Federalist Party) relinquished the presidency to Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican Party.) They were bitter enemies. Today, MAGA Republicans know that they are not the majority, that they cannot win a fair and open election in many if not the great majority of cases. Therefore, they rig the system against the one-person, one-vote, majority-rule process. Why? How is it, for example, that tens of millions of Americans support a man who is a known liar, cheat, convicted rapist with 91 felony charges against him? It's because he represents their desire to establish a white Protestant supremacy political system here, and it is so important to them that they are willing to quash democracy.
Richard, speaking of voting, it would seem Kevin McCarthy could outflank his extremist contingent (just 20 or 22 of his Republican'ts?) in the House by reaching across the aisle to work with Democrats and Independents who recognize the folly of defaulting on the national debt, the folly of caving into extremists who would take our country's finances hostage. I recognize that it has become an almost forgotten skill in recent congresses, yet "working across the aisle" to preserve our country and to produce workable legislation which the majority in the House could support to keep the government functioning was once considered an honorable and desirable shared by our greatest leaders...from both sides!
Yes, but spineless Keystone Kev will face losing his speakership if he does this. He could put a stop to this nonsense in a nanosecond if he would reach across the aisle. Instead the House is really run by a small loud minority of people who do nothing but rant and don't get on with the business of governing. Quite the group: Herr Gaetz, Gangrene, Gym and the Groping Gunslinger Barbie. etc. Aside from not being able to do what they need to do to keep the government running and more, they are griping about what Fetterman wears in the Senate. This after the theater fiasco by Groper Gunslinger and her date.
Spineless Qevin will continue to face losing his Speakership as long as he keeps caring to HIS MAGA masters. No concession will ever be enough. And, they have no scruples about keeping any agreements they make anyway.
They have no scruples, period. What a collection of people who should not even be elected to any office. Scraped from the bottom of the barrel.
The irony is My Kevin’s” district will return him to Congress no matter what. He just wouldn’t be Speaker, and he can’t abide that thought.
Here's why he keeps getting elected, in part: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920517740615
Hopefully this takes you to the article, "The Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?"
from David Dayen of American Prospect:
"House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) believes that his position is dependent on the Freedom Caucus not throwing him out of office like they did the last two Republican leaders. So the first thing he did when the House returned from summer break—only three weeks from the deadline—was to unilaterally initiate an impeachment investigation against Joe Biden. This was done entirely to cozy up to the obstinate hard right. But even before McCarthy made the announcement, they all said this would not mollify them at all. So predictably, when asked how an impeachment inquiry would affect their demands on spending, Freedom Caucus member Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) said, “Zero. Zero. They’re totally unrelated.”
Only in Washington would you respond to a set of demands with an unrelated demand and expect that to work: It’s like a manager responding to workers wanting to see the air-conditioning fixed at the office by bringing in a pinball machine."
LOL they'd tear him to pieces. This is why he's in a genuine conundrum, like the guy who paints himself into a corner and has no way out.
True.
As a white, Protestant voter, I can assure you that I will be voting Blue.
Trump's friends showed us how easy it is to meddle with the electoral college. Still, nobody talks about abolishing it, at least not seriously, even though it's the most logical way to protect "one person, one vote." In 2016, I was living in Egypt (where there are no electors for expats and our votes are set aside to be used as tie-breakers should they be necessary, where we saw the worst president in US history get elected by a small group of people who thought they knew better than the voters. Instead of the electoral college protecting us from bad choices, they cursed us with a deranged clown in orange makeup and a floppy suit.
One possible solution is to eliminate the "winner take all" systems and make it proportional to the votes received. the Founding Fathers never could have conceived that one state (California) could have a population equal to sixteen other states. This holds true for the Senate as well. It may be that there is no other solution than dissolution of the government. This would send shock waves around the world since a powerful U.S. government is the principal guarantee for democracies in many of the world's countries.
The government as it was set up in the late 1700s just cannot work efficiently anymore. There are too many people, too many states, and we've just begun to exploit the many weak spots the Founding Fathers never thought of. In our history 5 times a president won the electoral vote while losing the popular vote. This should be unacceptable, but of course it wasn't. Basically they invented this method because they couldn't think of anything else.
And representation in a democracy should be population-based, but states each have 2 senators regardless of how many people live there. Nobody else on earth has such a "democracy."
I agree 100%, representation should be one person, one vote, majority rule. And, given that the country is as much divided now between the forces of democracy, on the one hand, and authoritarian despotic rule, on the other hand, just not purely geographically, makes the prospect for holding it together going forward look bleak. The modern Confederacy (MAGA/KKK Republicans) will ultimately destroy the Union so that they can have their white Protestant autocracy.
Right on, Richard. The party of death has nothing to offer ordinary people, even the ones that support death star. They get support for their hatred and bigotry and that's all.