The USA a Democracy? No, not at all. The Red, White, and Blue is missing the color White in its political spectrum. We have Red; we have Blue; and we have some kind of grape-juice color dripping from between both parties, nowhere near White.
Democracy is a system of Representation.
We don't have that.
We have single winners of district elections. That is not representation. That is competition.
In Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain, they have a democracy. Nearly 100% of the voters can point to the person representing them based on the vote they personally cast for that person or party.
They cut up the pie of seats, so when 10% of the voters vote for Orange, then the Orange Party receives 10% of the seats. It is called pro-portion-al because the portions are the same.
We don't have that.
In 2006, when I did this calculation, the US Senators in the seats had received just shy of 60% of the votes to claim their seats.
That means that more than 40% of the voters got nothing they wanted.
That is not cat piss.
When the majority does not receive the majority of the seats but simply gets ALL the seats, then that is not a democracy.
You don't boot out voters in the voting booth. You don't get rid of 40% of the voters, have them not be represented at the table at all, and then get to call yourselves a democracy. Understood?!?!? The USA was never a democracy. [Fortunately, it was never a dictatorship either, though repression like a dictatorship did take place and is still taking place. Nevertheless, I will pick the USA over the USSR any day in its history because that USSR, and Russia today is the worst shit show, particularly in today's Europe.]
The worst part we are dealing with ourselves?
60% of the voters are represented and the majority decision among 60% of the voters means that plus-of-30% of the voters are directly linked to that majority decision.
Majority of 60% voters X majority of 60% of the representatives voting for a political issue = just 36% of actual voter support for that political decision. That is therefore minority rule, no matter how you look at it.
In Sweden?
99% x 60% = 59.4%, that is therefore majority rule throughout.
Yes, you show that with your maps real well, too, Andrew, what is going on in the USA. We are a minority-driven society, with the elite laughing of course any time whether the left minority or the right minority gets the lead.
Write more of these articles. But make sure to undress the democratic character of the USA. The USA was never a democracy and always had that old-English voting system in place in which competition-for-the-sake-of-competition is the true essence, and cooperation for the benefit of all the step child.
