Fred-Rick
2 min readJan 17, 2022

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The good news is that, if we want political change, the Founding Fathers gave us a way out already, and right now a number of people are taking that route in what can be called the Local Revolution, changing the political system in cities.

Eligible voters in Oakland, Memphis, San Francisco, Nashville, Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, Portland, Austin, Oxnard, Little Rock, San Antonio have already Invoked their local government, demanding they stop violating the Bill of Rights. You can do the same.

https://fred-rick.medium.com/citizens-invoking-the-us-constitution-325c17290881

Here is the setup:

Cities and Counties are not given any constitutional powers, which means they must follow the Bill of Rights 100%. But they are not. Meanwhile, the people are given constitutional powers.

Cities cannot segregate people in voting districts, yet that is what they are doing. Separate-but-equal is simply not allowed at the local level of government.

The States have a cop out in light of the Bill of Rights, whereas the cities do not. Cities must have an Inclusive Democracy in place and they are not allowed to keep the Exclusive form of Democracy they copied+pasted from the State level. Ruling on separate-but-equal has been quite clear about this.

Very few are aware that, even before folks walk into the voting booth, how their powers were cut in half already. It is hard to see what is right in front of our faces every election cycle. We were divided first before we were allowed into the voting booths. It truly costs us half our power.

If we were to separate voters in age groups, and each age group got its own representative, folks would consider that truly weird, right? But voting in districts is exactly the same. What happens is a single layer of Divide and Conquer first before the actual voting happens. We were had, and then we were told (and believed) that it was normal.

Voters in nations with Proportional Voting are twice as empowered as we are in district voting.

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

Come and join the Local Revolution. We can get the full-color version of democracy today.

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