We can change how we view each other, but... we need better glasses, Andre. Right now, all we’re allowed to wear are blue glasses or red glasses, and some of us wear one blue and one red glass. These are the only ways we are allowed to view ourselves.

I am talking about our system of voting in districts that restricts us deeply and splits us apart. We are not allowed to be E Pluribus Unum (from many, one). We are forced to be E Duobus Unum (from two, one).

The sad part is that we don't talk about it. No one talks about our living in a restricted society and instead we are saying to each other how wonderful it is to be living in the freest nation in the world.

Why do we lie to each other? What benefits do we have when we do not speak the actual truth about the deepest workings of our society, and rather talk about just the things that surface from that deeper reality?

Are we so afraid to say we are all human, that we in essence share so much that is the same? Must we all be unique to the point it is better to have winners-taking-all and losers getting nothing? We are a nation where competition for the sake of competition is worshiped and collaboration is deemed uninteresting.

Voting in districts diminishes our voting power. First, we have a majority of voters pick the winners and next a majority among those winners decide the issues. That is a double use of majority rule, and it most often leads to a minority decision.

0.6 x 0.6 = 0.36, a very obvious minority decision that is nevertheless presented as if it were the will of the (majority of the) people. Why are we lying? What are we gaining with these lies?

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Is there hope?

Yes, the Founding Fathers created a small door to the truth, to equal political empowerment for all of us. It is found at the local levels; cities and counties must (but right now they aren't) use Proportional Voting in which majority rule occurs just once in total.

Here is the longer but quick explanation:

In decisions involving the Bill of Rights, separate-but-equal was declared unconstitutional. That is, except for where it is allowed.

It is allowed for the Federal level, because the States are each other's equals, even when they are nothing alike.

The States are given broad freedoms, so they have loopholes to get away with their restricted voting systems.

These are the exceptions to the rule.

The cities and counties are not even mentioned in the US Constitution, so there are no exceptions available for them in the US Constitution. They must follow the rules completely, which means they cannot use a system that discriminates among voters in the end result.

How to move forward?

Invoke your city.

If you don't want to do that yourself, we can do it for you. We invoke the US Constitution for your city — telling them that they must follow the highest document of the nation before anything else.

Join the Local Revolutions, because we need to start valuing each other. That can only be accomplished if we declare each other valuable in the outcomes of our elections. Today, that is not the case.

Once we learn how the better form of democracy functions, we can take it one step up to the State levels if enough people want it. The Federal level may not be available for changing, but we can at least become E Pluribus Unum at the other levels.

The flag has three colors; our political system only two. It ain't right, and the Founding Fathers had better plans for us. They wrote it down in the highest document of the nation.

Come join.

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