There is something you can do, Anastasia, that the Founding Fathers have gifted us — and your Danish husband may like this too — by taking Step 1:

* Invoking local cities that they must follow the Bill or Rights and give us Proportional Voting in our cities.

The US is winner-take-all at all its levels, and Denmark is not. Yes, there are always issues in all countries that make us dislike politicians, but many of the outcomes we have here can get traced right back to the winners making all the decisions. Many of the negative outcomes we have here are not found in Denmark or they are found at levels that are not as extreme as what we have here.

In the US, 50% plus one vote establishes who the representative is going to be.

In Denmark, 99.4% percent of all voters can point their fingers to the one they voted for or to the best stand-in for that choice. They get their very own representatives.

It matters.

Here, we are not all seated around the table of decision making, many of us have gone missing. Voters compete with voters here and the majority pushes the not-majority out of the way.

While the UK has the same system we have (they call it first past the post) they are A/ an island, B/ not as large as the US, and C/ do not have three layers and multiple institutions that cut themselves up this very specific way. They also have different examples from other nations real close by.

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• I do have some signatures from folks in Santa Monica already in possession (name and city). Other folks can ask me for their cities. I will hide their replies after I receive the request.

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

Yes, the US Constitution already demands Proportional Voting at the local level. It is an interesting story. Follow the links or ask me in a reply and I will explain. The short of it: Cities and Counties are not mentioned in the US Constitution at all. The People are, but the Cities are not. Cities are therefore not allowed to have a system in place that is based on separate-but-equal. States have a cop out. Cities don’t.

It’s Step 1, a good and safe start. We can get full color into our currently red-and-blue-only reality.