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California Could Become a Democracy

Fred-Rick
3 min readMar 15, 2025

Today!

Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash

No state in the United States has become a democracy yet. They are all functioning in lockstep with the Federal level, of letting voters pick a single winner (like picking a political king or queen for two or four years) to represent them in their districts.

None of the states have full representation like they have in modern democracies around the world.

  • California has a super majority that can change the way we vote.
  • The US Constitution likes Full Representation for state and local levels a lot better already than picking just winners at these levels.

The nation as a whole is currently locked-in-place with the Republican Party and with President Trump. This result occurs because the Federal level is set up according to well-established voting standards that are lower than those in use for modern democracies. Every now and then, a single party is fully in control. Like today.

The examples to show the electoral point in more detail are right below.

Important to note is that the US Constitution does not require the individual states to follow that Federal voting example.

USA voting system example:

  • 60 percent of the voters pick the representatives.
  • 60 percent of the representatives make the decisions.
  • 60 percent x 60 percent = 36 percent, minority rule.

Democracy example with 40 seats:

  • 97.56 percent of the voters can point to the person or party they personally voted for. That’s the minimum percentage.
  • 60 percent of the representatives make the decisions.
  • 97.36 percent x 60 percent = 58.54 percent, majority rule.

That means that democracy is far superior in delivering voters their representatives than the system now in place throughout the USA.

Voters help establish the decisions more directly in a democracy.

In the USA, we have a two-stepped system, and that second step diminishes the power of the voters compared to voters in modern democracies.

The Framers agreed to a lower standard for the Federal government. They had to, in order to appease the 13 colonies. That’s why the Framers ended up writing the Bill of Rights, to make sure the higher standards they desired would be applied at least to the state and local levels.

But the state officials did not follow up on what they were told. State officials followed the example of the Federal level with their elections, and that was not the intention.

Governor Gavin Newsom and his Democratic Party can make California a democracy — today!

The Democrats have a super majority in California.

California can become the first state in the nation to become a democracy.

California can lead the nation toward democracy at state and local levels.

Would it change who we are at the Federal level?

We would become politically more diverse. Even when the Green Party and the Libertarian Party would win just a couple of the 40 seats in the example, the message would be loud and clear:

There are people who do not want to vote red or blue. There are people who want to vote green or orange.

  • People want to be free.

California can become the first state in the nation to deliver voters their political freedom by embracing Thomas Jefferson’s proportional voting system.

  • Pro-portion-al:

The portion of the voters voting for Orange is the same portion of seats for the Orange Party.

Pro-portion -> outcome shown per that portion.

The Framers were smarter than state officials. State officials followed the example of the Federal level. That is not what the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights demand. We should be the Land of the Free. We should not be limited to a system that hands the wins to red and blue only.

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