Something is Seriously Wrong
October 27, 2020
This is the text
of a post I just put on Facebook. It reflects a conclusion I have come to only
recently, but it is a really important one.
Something is
seriously wrong with the way this country is structured politically. A
president who received fewer votes than his opponent and a majority of Senators
who represent significantly fewer Americans than the minority just confirmed an
extremist judge for the Supreme Court when something like 70% of the people
wanted the next president to nominate a judge to fill that slot on the court.
We claim to have representative government. We don't. We have citizens in
small, conservative states dictating results that the majority of Americans do
not want. It's way past time that that system change. American federalism may
have made sense in the eighteenth century when it was created. It makes no
sense today. I just wish there were any hope of changing it. Sadly, there isn't
because at least many of those small, conservative states would have to approve
it. They never will. Why would they vote to give up their power? They won't,
and we'll all continue to suffer as a result.
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