But we have to re-examine the word democracy as well and realize it does not apply to the US because we only have two parties. A dictatorship we are not because we have two parties, and therefore a choice indeed. But a full-color democracy we are not either. We have Blue and we have Red. We do not have primary color Yellow, so a basic color printer has more colors already than our democracy.

Let's be honest with each other: words are words. Actions are actions. And in our system all Yellow political needs (and they exist left, right, up and down) cannot get expressed. Our 'democracy' is severely restricted, and that is exactly how Red and Blue like it best. Mom&Dad are in control and we are not allowed to leave the House.

Let me poke fun of this tragedy a bit. Yellow represents unaddressed political needs in our nation and they found a way through the Red Party to get the attention they long for. But Yellow pushed through via Red only leaves us with something Orange.

Jokes aside, did you know that in our system the Losing Party always wins. It sounds bizarre but it is actually true.

https://medium.com/the-national-discussion/and-the-winner-is-the-losing-party-c683c1d739e5

If we want to say We The People, we have to vote for a USA 2.0 upgrade, because today we are not a democracy.

The best way to move forward is to vote at the local level for those candidates that stand up for electoral change. At the local level, proportional voting is the game changer we are not all too familiar with. Yet te local level is exactly where we can learn how a real democracy works, and do so in a safe environment.

For the nation, we should never have twenty little unimportant parties, four or five is plenty. But at the local level with relatively few seats to begin with we can implement proportional voting in the pure format.

Proportional is a word as well. It means that all voters are represented in the outcome. We, on the other hand, are only allowed to partake in elections. Voters compete with voters in our system, and so we are not represented by all our votes, because our system is a game. Proportional voting is not a game.