Fred-Rick
2 min readJan 1, 2022

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The Founding Fathers had to accept the 13 colonies as separate-but-equal entities at the Federal level. They did not like that, but they had to accept.

Then, with the Bill of Rights, they made sure that the enlightened ideals they had were put to words.

Fast forward, and we know for a fact that separate-but-equal is not allowed at the local level of government. The Federal level still is allowed to continue to use it, but we can use the Bill of Rights as a tool to remove the nasty voting-district system from the local levels. We are segregated in districts and only then declared each other's equals -- not allowed.

Did you know that we have only half the voting power that voters in Proportional democracies have?

We need a remodeling of our house, and what better way than with the Founding Fathers on our side?

https://fred-rick.medium.com/why-is-district-voting-so-bad-2e30155cad2e

In this article you can read why District Voting is bad, and a link is provided to get the better voting system for your city or county.

Instead of a civil war, we need to remodel the way we vote so we can all seat our representatives around the table. The local level is the best way to do that because we need to learn how a full-color democracy works first. We are too red-and-blue in our minds today that we can't think in full color yet. Better start with the safe local level.

When a meat factory produces sausages only, then we should not go to war over what kind of sausage must prevail. Rather, we need to modify the meat factory so we have other meat products next to sausages. We need to leave some of the meat as is, and we need to turn some of the meat into better products.

The Founding Fathers were enlightened, and Thomas Jefferson was the first to devise a Proportional Voting system. We can be very proud of that. Others in the world enjoy being empowered as voters. Now, we need to get that for ourselves, too.

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