Excellent article, Teresa!

We are like Sisyphus, rolling up the boulder for eternity.

But it is not just the boulder we're rolling up the hill, much has to do with the solid grounds underneath our feet.

When the solid grounds underneath our feet are not up to our liking, that's when we start rolling up that boulder to improve the low levels of the solid grounds.

In the United States, the standards are actually quite low for our solid grounds. One look at our voting system, and one can see why that is.

Take our US Senators. We vote them in place with on average 60% of the voters supporting that pick. That sounds reasonable.

Yet that means that 30% of the voters got their Democratic Senators, 30% of the voters got their Republican Senators, and an astounding group of 40% got nothing.

Our solid grounds contain a gap that in the case of US Senators is 40% wide.

It only takes 30% of the voters to lead the nation into their direction, and this is switched from time to time to the other 30%.

In Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain, the solid grounds of democracy are solid indeed. They have majority rule in which 50% of the voters support the direction of their nations. We have just that 30% requirement.

Normally, the 30% aren't dumb. They aren't rolling down everything the 70% does not want, because that would mean the other 30% would end up getting the controls in their hands.

Yet with the perfect storm, such as politicians not doing anything to put abortion policies in place, and Justices needing to make the decision, and the Justices not being separated in power from the politicians, then the boulder that was rolled up the hill can get released, undoing years of hard work.

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The Founding Fathers did not envision a two-party system and they were actually afraid that the mob would end up in the seats (like they are today).

That's why the Bill of Rights is incredibly clever.

It's just baby steps; raising solid grounds is hard work, but the Bill of Rights says that governments must use the better system, cannot use discriminating systems, unless given exception in the US Constitution.

The exceptions make that we can take baby steps only, for the Federal level is indeed given exceptions, such as 2 senators per state even when that is not fair for the people in states with large populations. It is the law.

The States did not receive any exceptions to put a discriminating voting system in place like we have today, but they were given various powers and so there are plenty of loopholes that make it impossible to take our States to court.

Finally, the last level of government, cities and counties. They are not mentioned in the US Constitution, and therefore they MUST follow the Bill of Rights and provide the better voting system in their cities and counties.

Cities and counties point to State rules they are following, but the Bill of Rights does not cover that. They should consider the Bill of Rights and the powers in the hands of the People first.

It's like the State is the landlord of an apartment complex (of cities and counties), and inside the apartments there are kitchens (for holding elections), and the landlord then walking into these apartments saying it is verboten to cook Brussels sprouts.

Not only is that a legal overreach and therefore not allowed, the Bill of Rights actually says to cook Brussels sprouts -- unless….

So, we can lift up the solid grounds we walk on and find them with higher standards because the Founding Fathers made it so.

Local Revolutions grassroots organization is currently sending Constitutional Invocations to cities and counties, demanding they start providing the better form of elections for their citizens that have more power (per the US Constitution) that they. Or else….

The boulder is then not rolled up the hill. The boulder is then resting on solid grounds of a higher standard than put in place today.

For instance, Proportional Voting for 9 seats on the city council delivers 90% of the voters -- guaranteed -- the representative they want.

Instead of voters competing with voters for the win, like we have today, Proportional Voting has candidates competing with candidates for our votes in which they must listen twice as well to us as they are today.

Come join, and help Invoke cities and counties and demand they use the better voting system (which all professionals in the know agree on is Proportional Voting for the local level).

When things go really bad, we either start all over again and do the same. Or we start all over again and build our nation from the ground up with higher standards to begin with. No better spot than our voting systems to raise the current low grounds.

Come join the Local Revolutions grassroots organization.