A rather tame but perhaps interesting talk on the presidential popular vote, plutocratic campaign finance, the awfulness of the Democratic Party, the US Founders, slavery, and the archaic US Constitution.
Let's remember that the president has never been elected by a true majority, not in my lifetime anyway, I believe, and I'm 70 years old. Trump won by approximately 31% of the American electorate. So seven in 10 eligible voters did not vote for Trump. Where is the mandate? There is no mandate. There's just a majority of disaffected, alienated, dispirited people. If any mandate at all, it is for a complete overhaul. So sayeth the great 'Silent Majority' by their very silence!
Hope your spot in the ether endures well into 2025 and beyond.
I voted Stein. She got... what? 0.7% of votes for peace over forever wars. Your pipe dream of a reboot of the constitution and the end of unfettered capitalism got what % of the vote. O.0% Trump got 21% of the American populus. Harris 19%. We got a herculean task ahead of us Paul.
Chemerinsky's new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever, is a great read. His explanation of Gerrymandering is enough to call for a new truly democratic constitution, it needs deep reform. Then there is life time tenure on the courts, gutting the Voting Rights Act, the filibuster, CU as you noted. There is nothing very democratic about our Constitution, except that it begins with "we the people", which I believe was Gov Morris' idea meant to bind the states into an inseparable union, not to actually empower those individuals with more democratic institutions. We have been duped.
Democracy is a process, and Americans have left it on autopilot for far too long. It could be a means by which the majority put a meaningful check on minority rule, but only if we organize to establish a political system that meaningfully represents the majority. That could be the goal.
Let's remember that the president has never been elected by a true majority, not in my lifetime anyway, I believe, and I'm 70 years old. Trump won by approximately 31% of the American electorate. So seven in 10 eligible voters did not vote for Trump. Where is the mandate? There is no mandate. There's just a majority of disaffected, alienated, dispirited people. If any mandate at all, it is for a complete overhaul. So sayeth the great 'Silent Majority' by their very silence!
I like it, shared already.
The Revolution Nothing Less Show not the "Revolution Nothing Show" (0:44) -- LOL.
Dear Paul Street. Don't shake your camera, please! Thanks - Rolf from Denmark
Hope your spot in the ether endures well into 2025 and beyond.
I voted Stein. She got... what? 0.7% of votes for peace over forever wars. Your pipe dream of a reboot of the constitution and the end of unfettered capitalism got what % of the vote. O.0% Trump got 21% of the American populus. Harris 19%. We got a herculean task ahead of us Paul.
Chemerinsky's new book, No Democracy Lasts Forever, is a great read. His explanation of Gerrymandering is enough to call for a new truly democratic constitution, it needs deep reform. Then there is life time tenure on the courts, gutting the Voting Rights Act, the filibuster, CU as you noted. There is nothing very democratic about our Constitution, except that it begins with "we the people", which I believe was Gov Morris' idea meant to bind the states into an inseparable union, not to actually empower those individuals with more democratic institutions. We have been duped.
Democracy is a process, and Americans have left it on autopilot for far too long. It could be a means by which the majority put a meaningful check on minority rule, but only if we organize to establish a political system that meaningfully represents the majority. That could be the goal.
Here's the Avakian book I mentioned before: https://revcom.us/en/avakian/ba-democracy-cant-we-do-better.html