05-30-2022, 04:05 AM
The biggest problem we have in America now is one of minority rule. When you look at the some of the big issues facing our society (gun control, abortion rights, climate change, the growing wealth/income/opportunity gap, health care, etc...), there is either a solid majority, or even a super majority of Americans, who more or less know where they stand and the direction they would like our institutions to move us in.
But almost nothing happens.
Minority rule.
We have a structural problem whereby a minority of people and interests can exert a disproportionate influence over our body politic. I mean, when the combined populations of North Dakota and South Dakota add up to less than half the population of ONE county in California (San Diego County), yet these states have twice the representation in the US Senate than California...that's the kind of structural problem that a minority of people and interests can politically exploit to exert their will over the interests of the majority of Americans.
There are other structural problems as well.
Other than waiting for the Boomers to die off, the only hope for moving forward in positive directions is for the voters to overwhelm the system and create representative majorities that will act in the interests of the majority on a consistent basis.
Outside of that, we're kind of toast now.
But almost nothing happens.
Minority rule.
We have a structural problem whereby a minority of people and interests can exert a disproportionate influence over our body politic. I mean, when the combined populations of North Dakota and South Dakota add up to less than half the population of ONE county in California (San Diego County), yet these states have twice the representation in the US Senate than California...that's the kind of structural problem that a minority of people and interests can politically exploit to exert their will over the interests of the majority of Americans.
There are other structural problems as well.
Other than waiting for the Boomers to die off, the only hope for moving forward in positive directions is for the voters to overwhelm the system and create representative majorities that will act in the interests of the majority on a consistent basis.
Outside of that, we're kind of toast now.
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."