We need to focus on our society as a whole because there is a lot wrong, and to paraphrase you, we all know it and we are not doing anything about it. It turns out that our politicians are failing us miserably. A majority that includes so many of us want better gun control, and we are being stonewalled by small progress and new industrial innovations. No wonder that individuals feel un(der)empowered. We are being ignored when we are supposed to be heard.
It's not just the guns. It is the lack of empowerment that is really the tragedy of the United States.
We are empowered, says the US Constitution, and yet the government behaves willy-nilly where it regulates and where it does not regulate. Mostly, we see our politicians sitting on their hands. Take abortion, and we see their not putting anything in place so the Justices have to walk into the political realm with their non-political tools. All because our politicians are not doing their job. This abortion policy could have been (should have been) organized four decades ago.
Same with gun control. This should have been put in place three decades ago. So many people would be alive today with smart gun-control policies in place.
Does anyone realize that our voting system is setting us up for this kind of failure? We vote and then up to 49.99 percent of the voters are sent home without anyone to call their representative but the person they did not want. Our system contains a bully element.
In case we didn’t know, this is not how democracy functions in other places where they have full representation. No one of the voters goes home empty-handed in those nations; they all got the representative they wanted because they have the smart voting system.
But... there are pathways for us to get full-color democracy as well. The Founding Fathers are with us. Still, the start has to be at the local levels of cities and counties. That is where today we find governmental overreach, very similar to separate-but-equal. The State walks into our homes and basically says that we can't cook Brussels sprouts (as symbol for the better voting system). It is governmental overreach. They are not allowed to do that, says the Bill of Rights. We are empowered and the State cannot dictate what is verboten at the local level. They have to stop bullying us around.
Come join our Local Revolutions grassroots organization. It's grassroots, it involves your city or county, so it is not some kind of super large thing we are going to change. Just our local councils and board. Yet it will help us peel off the wool now sitting over our eyes about what our representatives are supposed to be doing. We know it, but we didn’t do anything about it. Now you can.
We just started doing outreach to the media and got our first article in:
If there are four seats on your council, then with Proportional Voting 80% of the voters are guaranteed to be happy with the outcome.
If there are nine seats, then 90% of the voters are guaranteed to be happy with the outcome.
Today, in district voting? Nothing but 50% plus one vote. And that is a lot of folks going home unempowered. They may end up feeling better when they carry a gun, but it would make the world a whole lot safer if we gave all voters their Constitutional powers so they don't need to feel suppressed by the ones in their seats of power.
