The Dem-Media-"Establishment" group, which I call the One-Party-State, is bent on monopolizing all governmental power (via the point of a gun) and "reinterpreting" (rewriting) the Constitution to allow infinite perpetual power to be wielded by the chosen elite.John wrote:** 31-Jan-2020 World View: End of impeachment battle will not mean end of tribal war
Those who are foolish enough to hope that the Democrats who have been
spending years trying to impeach Trump will now return to anything
resembling sanity are deluding themselves. The Democrats are bitter,
angry and desperate, and the House is now planning to move from an
impeachment process to a re-impeachment process by issuing subpoenas
for Bolton and others. The Democrats announced from the day that he
was elected that they would be impeaching Trump, and they started with
phony white supremacist charges, continued with phony Russian
collusion charges, and when the Mueller report collapsed, went on to
phony Ukraine charges....
This Democrats vs Tea Party loathing and hatred is completely
indistinguishable from Hutu hatred for Tutsis, Burmese vs Rohingya,
Nazi vs Jew, English vs Scot, Han vs Uighur, Sunni vs Shia, and so
forth. The only real question is how far the violence will be carried
in America, and whether it will go as far as some of these other
similar examples. ...
Here is the plan, or desired outcomes, of their wishes:
America's Anti-Democratic Constitution, Explained... by Vox
Four features of our anti-democratic democracy
Broadly speaking, there are four features of our system of government that make our democracy less democratic, many of them working in interlocking ways. These features also happen to give the GOP a structural advantage.
1) The Senate is deeply unrepresentative of the country
..more than half of the US population lives in just nine states. That means that much of the nation is represented by only 18 senators. Less than half of the population controls about 82 percent of the Senate.
By 2040, according to a University of Virginia analysis of census projections, half the population will live in eight states. About 70 percent of people will live in 16 states — which means that 30 percent of the population will control 68 percent of the Senate.
Currently, Democrats control a majority of the Senate seats (26-24) in the most populous half of the states. Republicans owe their majority in the Senate as a whole to their crushing 29-21 lead in the least populous half of the states. Those small states tend to be dominated by white voters who are increasingly likely to identify with the Republican Party.
..In the current Senate, the Republican “majority” represents about 15 million fewer people than the Democratic “minority.” And if current trends continue, the Republican advantage is likely to grow.
..When Scalia died in 2016, Republicans had a 54-46 majority in the Senate, despite the fact that Democratic senators represented about 20 million more people than Republicans in 2016.
2) The next winner of the Electoral College could lose the popular vote by as much as 6 percentage points
Another theory, recently offered by political scientist Josep Colomer at the Monkey Cage, is that the framers never intended for the Electoral College to choose presidents. They merely expected the Electoral College to whittle down the list of candidates.
Under the original Constitution, the Electoral College would vote on who its members believed should be president. But, if no candidate received a majority, the House would choose the president from among the five candidates who received the most votes.
..According to Colomer, “delegates in Philadelphia expected states would put forward a variety of candidates; none would win a national majority in the electoral college; and the election would typically pass to the House of Representatives.” The framers’ error was that they “didn’t expect candidates to emerge and run nationwide.”
So the Electoral College was either a poorly designed kludge that failed to achieve its intended purpose, or a misbegotten device intended to preserve a great evil.
3) Partisan gerrymandering is still allowed
..Republicans owe that five-justice majority to Senate malapportionment and the Electoral College. Without these two anti-democratic features of our Constitution, it is likely that, at the very least, the most aggressive partisan gerrymanders would also be forbidden.
4) The Constitution is virtually impossible to amend
..It takes three-quarters of the states to ratify constitutional amendments — which means that Republicans will almost certainly be able to block any attempt to remove the Constitution’s anti-democratic features.
..a difficult amendment process is only a virtue if the Constitution’s underlying structures are, themselves, conducive to democracy. If those structures become hostile to democracy — or if they tend to cement a minority faction in power — a difficult amendment process prevents the nation from replacing those flawed structures with a more democratic system.
Democrats can resort to nuclear tactics. If Democrats somehow manage to overcome the odds and capture Congress and the White House, they could divide large blue states like California and New York up into several states (provided that the legislatures of those states agreed to such an arrangement), thus changing the makeup of the malapportioned Senate. They could also add new seats to the Supreme Court to cancel out the GOP’s treatment of Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
But such moves invite retaliation if Republicans regain control. If there can be 10 Californias, why not 50 Alabamas?
Realistically, the most democratic solutions, such as abolishing the Senate or replacing it with a body that fairly represents all Americans, are off the table in a nation that cannot amend its Constitution. And so we’re likely left with our undemocratic system for a long while, pushing for reform when and where possible, but likely unable to fix the system absent a major political realignment.
- Abolish or neutralize the Electoral College.
- Create Political Electoral Oblasts to "properly adjust" the function of the Electoral College.
- Abolish the Senate.
- Enlarge and Pack the Courts (especially the Supreme Court).
- Make it vastly easier to Amend the Constitution.
- Realign the Polity,.. meaning REVOLUTION by force.
..it ain't gonna happen, but the hopes and wishes of a "utopian movement" will forever fuel deluded utopians to "bring the new world forth", and will torture and contort it's acolytes surrounding society in evil ways.
