If Democracy Is The Basis For Morally Legitimate Government...

[eniwetok]

33. RED HERRING ALERT!!

Gee... so if someone merely advocates for civic equality in the vote then they're for a system verging on anarchy?

Wow... thanks for proving that some are incapable of rationally critiquing our system. So you're saying it'd be impossible to have one chamber to represent local issues and another a national body based on proportional representation? Are you saying it's impossible to protect minority rights without giving a chosen minority... those in small states a bigger vote? If that's the "moral" solution then why not give ALL historically oppressed minorities a bigger vote? And, ya the Bill of Rights approach can't deal with this problem.

One of the big problems our system has... aside from giving ultra tiny minorities the ability to veto or block the majority is that intellectually the system is braindead. The electoral system simply can't measure ideological minorities if they're spread out nationally. I'm to the left of the Democratic Party and I can vote forever and never get any representation for my beliefs for curbing corporate power and making our system more democratic. In fact I maintain the REASON corporate power got out of control is because our system is antidemocratic. And I'd maintain the reason we have abysmal voting rates is because the system makes a mockery of self-government. After all, what's the point of elections when someone REJECTED by the People can "win" an election through a antidemocratic vote scheme called the EC? What's the point of government when 18% of the nation can veto anything coming out of the House? What's the point of pretending we can amend our system when states with 4% of the population can block any amendment.

Our system is affirmative action to the right wing... and Dems are not bright enough to realize how much it hurts them.