Minority Rule

American democracy is hanging by a thread. That's the positive way of looking at it. The realistic way is to admit that it's been long dead. The Republican Party in particular often uses a fundamentally undemocratic system to its advantage.

So, let's refresh our memories here. Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Most Americans who went out to vote, cast a vote against him. Hillary Clinton won that popular vote by almost 3 million votes. Trump lost again in 2020, this time looking at a gap of more than 7 million votes. Now let's recall how Donald tried to overturn the 2020 election results; he only had to overturn two or three state's results in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. There's even a phone-call recorded with him begging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" 11.000 votes somewhere. Trump only needed to succeed in two or three states...

Now imagine how much more difficult Trump's task would have been if he had to find more than 7 million votes. This whole system of Electoral Colleges is undemocratic and invites this type of power-plays. It does away with the whole one-man one-vote principle that ensures equal power among voters in any true democracy and gives disproportionate power to states with only a very small percentage of the total population. In America's entire history only 5 presidents have won their elections without also winning at least a plurality of the popular vote, the last two being George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump. And all 5 of them were of course Republicans. Except for the very first one, John Quincy Adams, who was America's 6th President and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, and later became associated with the Whig Party; he was a traditionalist conservative, as it behooves any true Republican.

Trump twice lost the popular vote. He twice represented a minority. But during his presidency he managed to stack the Supreme Court with three justices, giving conservatives, the minority in real American life, a super-majority in the nation's highest court. Trump's undemocratic, authoritarian and radically traditionalist Christian minority still rules. And it is changing the lives of Americans in all possible ways, cultural, political, religious and social. If you haven't done so, also read my posts from the past couple of days. I know, I rant on about this same subject, but it's important we all recognize just how dire this situation is. Democracy has truly died in America. It's dead. The January 6 hearings are in full force, and exposing new horrible facts about that almost fateful day in 2020. We collectively sighed with relief when that coup didn't succeed. We celebrated democracy's survival... But were we too soon? Trump's minority still rules by way of a far right extremely conservative SCOTUS. Here's one more video summarizing all the horrible decisions made by them, all overturning laws and regulations that had popular support...

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