The electoral college, two senator system, filibuster rule, and gerrymandered house seats do not equal democracy at a federal level. It's fascinating that Gellman has now put together for the nation what they could have learned from Thom a long time ago. Unfortunately, the ones that don't hang in there to read an extremely long article i…
The electoral college, two senator system, filibuster rule, and gerrymandered house seats do not equal democracy at a federal level. It's fascinating that Gellman has now put together for the nation what they could have learned from Thom a long time ago. Unfortunately, the ones that don't hang in there to read an extremely long article in The Atlantic will learn as Trump and the GOP put it into action. Some will be stunned and some will be ecstatic.
We have to face the fact that, until a generation or two passes on, there will be no constitutional convention. Gird your loins, old people.
The one saving grace is that democracy lives in many places, shapes and forms in our country. I predict that it won't die. Vote for your city council, mayor, school board, district attorney, county commissioners, sheriff, county clerk, state representative, state senator, state attorney general, state secretary of state, referendums, measures, and governor. There are water boards, planning commissions, airport boards, and many more. It all starts when you elect the student council and class president. Pedro won and Napoleon Dynamite rocked the election!
Right on. Tip O'Neill famously wrote a book titled "All Politics is Local." In essence, the idea of democracy -- the innate sense of it, indeed the passion for it -- starts in the individual mind and spreads outwardly. As Thom has pointed out many times, Mother Nature herself seems to have imbued most "thinking" animals with a deep sense of fairness, which perhaps is the seed that flourishes and ensures survival.
The electoral college, two senator system, filibuster rule, and gerrymandered house seats do not equal democracy at a federal level. It's fascinating that Gellman has now put together for the nation what they could have learned from Thom a long time ago. Unfortunately, the ones that don't hang in there to read an extremely long article in The Atlantic will learn as Trump and the GOP put it into action. Some will be stunned and some will be ecstatic.
We have to face the fact that, until a generation or two passes on, there will be no constitutional convention. Gird your loins, old people.
The one saving grace is that democracy lives in many places, shapes and forms in our country. I predict that it won't die. Vote for your city council, mayor, school board, district attorney, county commissioners, sheriff, county clerk, state representative, state senator, state attorney general, state secretary of state, referendums, measures, and governor. There are water boards, planning commissions, airport boards, and many more. It all starts when you elect the student council and class president. Pedro won and Napoleon Dynamite rocked the election!
Right on. Tip O'Neill famously wrote a book titled "All Politics is Local." In essence, the idea of democracy -- the innate sense of it, indeed the passion for it -- starts in the individual mind and spreads outwardly. As Thom has pointed out many times, Mother Nature herself seems to have imbued most "thinking" animals with a deep sense of fairness, which perhaps is the seed that flourishes and ensures survival.