Our system is divide-and-conquer. We can start changing it today, US Constitution approved. See how:
This is us, to the left. We are segregated in restricting districts and we fight each other over that one seat. It is classic divide-and-conquer. Voting minorities of as large as 49.9 percent of the voters remain unrepresented; they don’t sit at the tables of decision making. Fifty percent plus on vote can dictate the outcome to unrepresented voting minorities.
To the right, the We The People system. As you can see in this example of a city council with eight seats, almost 90 percent of the voters are guaranteed that their vote translates into a representative they handpicked themselves. There are no substantial voting minorities unrepresented in this system.
The good news is that the US Constitution is already demanding the We The People system for cities and counties. Here is a visual.
A: Federal and State governments are given powers and freedoms.
B: The 14th Amendment demands the better system put in place.
Federal and State governments received #A from the US Constitution and they can use this to create leeway for themselves involving #B.
Cities and counties are not even mentioned in the US Constitution, and yet they must fully abide by the highest document of the nation.
States did not receive the freedom or the power to hand freedom and power to third parties within that extends to the same level as the US Constitution.
Cities and counties must follow #B strictly.
The better system is not based on divide-and-conquer; it is based on We The People.
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Since we are a nation filled with good people, we do have a fair amount of We The People legislation. But when push comes to shove divide-and-conquer wins the day. We are ultimately bound by our power struggle of being segregated in districts and fighting each other over than seat.
We can hold the feet of our local representatives to the fire and demand our Constitution-given better system — today. It’s the law of the land.
P.S. Thank you Kelli for creating a good source article how to make use of the power of rage.
