We're at a crisis point now, do people believe in democracy? Republicans have become so extreme that they cannot accept that they can lose an election. Every election they lose will be considered "rigged". Democracy only works if they win elections. There is no one person, one vote. For some insane reason, rural voters have to have more power than urban voters. The Constitution cannot be changed, nor can we get a new one to replace our current one. Things aren't working and we're just stuck.
Here's something infuriating. With Baker v Carr, Reynolds v Sims and Gray v Sanders the Supreme Court has effectively decided that states must be democratic republics, where one person has one vote and each counts as much as the others. No severe malapportionment allowed (except for gerrymandering, it seems, in some sates).
But the national legislature and presidency are allowed to violate *the same principles* — apparently based only on the justification that the Constitution is a document that exists and which arbitrarily binds us to dumb rules.
Hi Elliott,
We're at a crisis point now, do people believe in democracy? Republicans have become so extreme that they cannot accept that they can lose an election. Every election they lose will be considered "rigged". Democracy only works if they win elections. There is no one person, one vote. For some insane reason, rural voters have to have more power than urban voters. The Constitution cannot be changed, nor can we get a new one to replace our current one. Things aren't working and we're just stuck.
-Elliot
Hi Elliot,
Here's something infuriating. With Baker v Carr, Reynolds v Sims and Gray v Sanders the Supreme Court has effectively decided that states must be democratic republics, where one person has one vote and each counts as much as the others. No severe malapportionment allowed (except for gerrymandering, it seems, in some sates).
But the national legislature and presidency are allowed to violate *the same principles* — apparently based only on the justification that the Constitution is a document that exists and which arbitrarily binds us to dumb rules.
Elliott