When Noam Chomsky wrote that the USA is a fascist nation, I breathed a sigh of relief. Up to that moment, I knew that the US contained fascist elements, but I had never heard anyone say this out loud. I was afraid to speak my mind, afraid that others would push me in a corner.
Our system is not exactly a democracy, Danielle, it has never been, and I am glad you are bringing this up. Only the winners sit at the table of decision making. Large voting minorities are not represented at these most important tables.
Let’s acknowledge that in the US we do embrace the ideology of We The People and because of that we do get some legislation put in place that is We The People indeed. But when push comes to shove, divide-and-conquer wins the day.
Large groups are systematically excluded from representation.
This is us, to the left. We are segregated in districts and we battle each other over the single seat. That is pure divide-and-conquer. Voting minorities of as large as 49.9 percent of the voters remain unrepresented; they don’t sit at the tables of decision making. Fifty percent plus one vote can dictate the outcome to unrepresented voting minorities.
To the right, the actual We The People system. As you can see in this example of a city council with eight seats, almost 90 percent of the voters are guaranteed that their vote translates into a representative they handpicked themselves. All substantial voting minorities are represented in this system.
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The good news is that the US Constitution is already demanding the We The People system for cities and counties. Here is a visual.
A: Federal and State governments are given powers and freedoms.
B: The 14th Amendment demands the better system put in place.
Federal and State governments received #A from the US Constitution and unfortunately they can use this to create leeway for themselves involving #B.
Cities and counties are not even mentioned in the US Constitution, and yet they must fully abide by the highest document of the nation.
States did not receive the freedom to hand over to third parties within freedoms to the same level as the State got from the US Constitution. Any such provision must be described in the US Constitution, declaring which governmental levels have US Constitutional freedoms and powers.
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Since the 14th Amendment is declared in the US Constitution, it prevails in the dispute who gets this power at the local level: it is the US Constitution itself.
Cities and counties must follow #B strictly.
The better system is not based on divide-and-conquer; it is based on We The People.
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We can change our bad system today, at the local level and have all be represented. Let us all speak our own truths and not have them be warped by the restricted two-party system of red and blue. We must be able to speak green, or orange, or yellow. Today, we are censored.
In the following article, I used basketball to show how our system discriminates (blocks) representation by an important segment of the voting population.
We can hold the feet of our local representatives to the fire and demand our Constitution-given better system — today. Read more about that here.
