I wish the US HAD a functioning democracy, instead of the electoral college, the Senate and an ossified oligarchy. Which works out in real time to a total absence of representational national government. The US is largely governed by a tiny conservative, white, rural minority, in cahoots with the corporate oligarchs who have no real soci…
I wish the US HAD a functioning democracy, instead of the electoral college, the Senate and an ossified oligarchy. Which works out in real time to a total absence of representational national government. The US is largely governed by a tiny conservative, white, rural minority, in cahoots with the corporate oligarchs who have no real social principles and are happy to run with the reactionary conservatives as long as they support shrunken, ineffective government, money treated as "speech" and endless tax breaks for the elites and corporations.
Our founding fathers, you all want to get rid of, purposely made us a REPUBLIC, NOT a democracy, for several reasons. Here are a couple. So all the states would be equally represented --a president should have a cross broad appeal and if he/she can do that, she/he is the right person. We have no interest in being ruled by the coasts. But they also had a distrust of the easily manipulated masses (which democrats would like to invite from everywhere in the world) promised everything under the sun. It's so much easier to be a Democrat who just promises all kinds of shit he/she can't provide and talk about "love" (which always sounds exactly like hate), than to articulate freedom. Still it works somehow. Why escapes me. And I'm a Libertarian who used to consider herself a social liberal, fiscal conservative. Now social liberal really means socialism as well as men competing in women's sports, going into women's bathrooms, forcing people to use idiot pronouns, critical race theory, rewriting and re-interpreting classic literature--murdering full term babies until the moment of birth and even after -- instead of within the first trimester, and more idiot things. Today, I would not be called a social liberal even though I am for gay marriage and limited abortion. "Social liberals" now claim our country is systemically racist and was founded on racism. John Adams gave speeches on the floor of congress about how it was going to have to go and how evil it was and he never owned slaves. And Jefferson and Washington remedied their personal situations and changed their positions just like Democrats' big hero Robert Byrd, ex-kkk member. Though articulating freedom seems to be very difficult for conservatives who are too practical and never play hardball.
Money in politics is a very different issue from the electoral college. The EC makes sure presidential candidates have to care about New Hampshire and Iowa as well as New York and California. Smaller and lower population states joined the union on the condition that they have this protection from being swamped and disregarded. It helps assure presidential platforms consider interests and conditions across the whole country. Like most of the Framers' handiwork, it's well considered.
The Citizens United ruling has allowed a flood of corporate money flowing into Congress. Congress doesn’t have to care what their constituents want. They just keep their corporate sugar daddies happy.
Norway-probably due to a very low population and high ethic/social solidarity-is pretty much the only country in the world where the state run oil company is actually well run and used for the direct social benefit of the general population, as opposed to a slush fund for kleptocrats. Compare this to Nigeria, Angola, Eq. Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela,etc, etc.
Anyone who supports the EC has invalidated themselves as a fan of democracy. The winner take all, state by state aspect is the worst of the worst. National politicians simply ignore states that are clear majority red or blue! Everything about our Constitution needs to be revisited - the Executive has way too much power. The founders as apples hadn't fallen far from the monarch loving tree. It's patently ridiculous for a sparsely populated state like Wyoming to have the same number of Senators as CA, which is now the 5th largest economy in the world. In the modern era, to have an uber-powerful chief executive who lost the popular vote by 3,000,000 do everything he can to become a neo-fascist tyrant is deadly to any cohesiveness in this country. Here's to looking forward to unpacking the reactionary SCOTUS by adding 4 in the very near future!
Yep, well our founders were smarter than you are, thank heavens. A simple Democracy has more room for tyranny because they are too easily manipulated. Especially if we have open borders. This is much more complex. No, I don't think you'll be getting your justices. Our supreme court is not supposed to make laws. That is why we have AMENDMENTS to this constitution and why we have congress. They amended the constitution to allow black men and then women to vote. That's all that had to do with Roe V Wade. It was clearly not something intended in the constitution. Democrats politicized the court with activist judges and that decision alone tore this country apart. I doubt she will overturn it anyway, but it needs to be reined in to first trimester which is where the majority of people want it, even those for it. This late term thing until the moment of birth ( except for the physical life of the mother) is ridiculous. You wouldn't do that to a dog. I doubt you'll get your packing. But you can hope. Oh, and it takes 2/3 of the house and senate to lose the electoral college so I doubt that's coming, either.
"The Trump administration has recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted facts about climate change and imposed stricter controls on communications at the agency.
The moves threaten to stifle a major source of objective United States government information about climate change that underpins federal rules on greenhouse gas emissions and offer an indication of the direction the agency will take if President Trump wins re-election.
An early sign of the shift came last month, when Erik Noble, a former White House policy adviser who had just been appointed NOAA’s chief of staff, removed Craig McLean, the agency’s acting chief scientist."
I wish the US HAD a functioning democracy, instead of the electoral college, the Senate and an ossified oligarchy. Which works out in real time to a total absence of representational national government. The US is largely governed by a tiny conservative, white, rural minority, in cahoots with the corporate oligarchs who have no real social principles and are happy to run with the reactionary conservatives as long as they support shrunken, ineffective government, money treated as "speech" and endless tax breaks for the elites and corporations.
Our founding fathers, you all want to get rid of, purposely made us a REPUBLIC, NOT a democracy, for several reasons. Here are a couple. So all the states would be equally represented --a president should have a cross broad appeal and if he/she can do that, she/he is the right person. We have no interest in being ruled by the coasts. But they also had a distrust of the easily manipulated masses (which democrats would like to invite from everywhere in the world) promised everything under the sun. It's so much easier to be a Democrat who just promises all kinds of shit he/she can't provide and talk about "love" (which always sounds exactly like hate), than to articulate freedom. Still it works somehow. Why escapes me. And I'm a Libertarian who used to consider herself a social liberal, fiscal conservative. Now social liberal really means socialism as well as men competing in women's sports, going into women's bathrooms, forcing people to use idiot pronouns, critical race theory, rewriting and re-interpreting classic literature--murdering full term babies until the moment of birth and even after -- instead of within the first trimester, and more idiot things. Today, I would not be called a social liberal even though I am for gay marriage and limited abortion. "Social liberals" now claim our country is systemically racist and was founded on racism. John Adams gave speeches on the floor of congress about how it was going to have to go and how evil it was and he never owned slaves. And Jefferson and Washington remedied their personal situations and changed their positions just like Democrats' big hero Robert Byrd, ex-kkk member. Though articulating freedom seems to be very difficult for conservatives who are too practical and never play hardball.
Amen!
Money in politics is a very different issue from the electoral college. The EC makes sure presidential candidates have to care about New Hampshire and Iowa as well as New York and California. Smaller and lower population states joined the union on the condition that they have this protection from being swamped and disregarded. It helps assure presidential platforms consider interests and conditions across the whole country. Like most of the Framers' handiwork, it's well considered.
The Citizens United ruling has allowed a flood of corporate money flowing into Congress. Congress doesn’t have to care what their constituents want. They just keep their corporate sugar daddies happy.
BINGO!!!!!
No, she'd rather blame some secret coven of white supremacists "in the country". Bah.
Norway-probably due to a very low population and high ethic/social solidarity-is pretty much the only country in the world where the state run oil company is actually well run and used for the direct social benefit of the general population, as opposed to a slush fund for kleptocrats. Compare this to Nigeria, Angola, Eq. Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela,etc, etc.
I guess you missed the last 30 years of globalist expansionism then, eh?
You're talking like you just popped out of a time machine sent from 1890.
"...in a functioning democracy..." emphasis deleted for ironic effect.
Anyone who supports the EC has invalidated themselves as a fan of democracy. The winner take all, state by state aspect is the worst of the worst. National politicians simply ignore states that are clear majority red or blue! Everything about our Constitution needs to be revisited - the Executive has way too much power. The founders as apples hadn't fallen far from the monarch loving tree. It's patently ridiculous for a sparsely populated state like Wyoming to have the same number of Senators as CA, which is now the 5th largest economy in the world. In the modern era, to have an uber-powerful chief executive who lost the popular vote by 3,000,000 do everything he can to become a neo-fascist tyrant is deadly to any cohesiveness in this country. Here's to looking forward to unpacking the reactionary SCOTUS by adding 4 in the very near future!
Yep, well our founders were smarter than you are, thank heavens. A simple Democracy has more room for tyranny because they are too easily manipulated. Especially if we have open borders. This is much more complex. No, I don't think you'll be getting your justices. Our supreme court is not supposed to make laws. That is why we have AMENDMENTS to this constitution and why we have congress. They amended the constitution to allow black men and then women to vote. That's all that had to do with Roe V Wade. It was clearly not something intended in the constitution. Democrats politicized the court with activist judges and that decision alone tore this country apart. I doubt she will overturn it anyway, but it needs to be reined in to first trimester which is where the majority of people want it, even those for it. This late term thing until the moment of birth ( except for the physical life of the mother) is ridiculous. You wouldn't do that to a dog. I doubt you'll get your packing. But you can hope. Oh, and it takes 2/3 of the house and senate to lose the electoral college so I doubt that's coming, either.
"do everything he can to become a neo-fascist tyrant"
Care to offer some examples? Please be specific.
"The Trump administration has recently removed the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier scientific agency, installed new political staff who have questioned accepted facts about climate change and imposed stricter controls on communications at the agency.
The moves threaten to stifle a major source of objective United States government information about climate change that underpins federal rules on greenhouse gas emissions and offer an indication of the direction the agency will take if President Trump wins re-election.
An early sign of the shift came last month, when Erik Noble, a former White House policy adviser who had just been appointed NOAA’s chief of staff, removed Craig McLean, the agency’s acting chief scientist."
And this makes you afraid you'll be taken away to a camp?