There are two kinds of democracy: Winner-Take-All (USA, UK) and Full Representation (Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain).

No surprise that the list of happy nations has Full Representation in top. We all know that.

In the USA, voters are competing with voters for the win. How backward is that? Very backward. The parties should compete with the parties, that is the normal thing to do in a democracy. Here? We have a couple of pre-chewed candidates to pick from and the collective ends up deciding who your representative is going to be.

In Full Representation, you as the individual pick your own representative. There is no collective deciding who your representative is going to be. We are not the Land of the Free because we are herded through gates first before we get to have our 'free choice'.

The story is actually worse, but also provides us a way out.

The Founding Fathers put Winner-Take-All elections in place for our Federal elections. Yet they did not put Winner-Take-All elections in place for State and local elections. So, why are we using the restricted voting format for State and local elections when the Founding Fathers wanted us to be free, pursuing our own happiness?

The Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments in combination are pretty clear and we can use that to demand that a system of Full Representation is used for local and State elections.

Come join Local Revolutions grassroots organization to get the change we need, the society we deserve, the honesty back that is now missing in our political reality at all levels of government. We don't get to change the Federal elections (too complicated to do that, an impossibility), but we can undermine the good-cop/bad-cop prison we are in right now at the State and local levels and discover what freedom really means as promised by the Founding Fathers.