greymule wrote:
Letter to the Denver Post:
The United States Senatorial v****g since 2012 has resulted in Republican Senators, who number 52 out of 100, receiving 54.8 million v**es. By contrast, Democratic Senators, the remaining 48 Senators, have received 78.4 million v**es, 23.5 million more v**es collectively than the Republican contingent, a 59-41 percent majority for Democrats, if it were a straight head-to-head e******n. The Senate, then, is ruled by only 41 percent of the American e*****rate in our Democracy. This anomaly of American democracy is a carryover compromise the Constitutional Convention had to make in order for the Southern S***e States to agree and to sign our Constitution out of concern that the lesser populated South would be outnumbered in any Congressional v**e to abolish s***ery. Similar to the E*******l College, wherein Clinton won the popular v**e by nearly 3 million v**es, this ancient compromise leaves the majority of Americans subject to Senatorial rule by a group distinctly in the minority of American citizens. The Democrats in the House of Representatives in 2012 won 1.17 million more v**es than Republicans, yet they only won 46.21 percent of the seats. In 2014, Republicans won 52 percent of v**es in House races, yet won 57 percent of the seats. In 2016, The Democrats won 48% of the total v**es for House candidates to the Republicans 49%, yet the Republicans won 55% of the seats. (Independent v**es bring the total to 100%.) The American e*****rate majority is severely under-represented in all three: the presidency, the senate and the house of representatives. America is a democracy wherein majority does NOT rule.
And Republicans have the unmitigated gall to claim a "mandate". Freaking pack of thieves, corporate and NRA pimps, and colossal liars.
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Pure tripe. The country never was intended to be a democracy. It protects the imdovidual from tyranny of the majority. Majority consensus does not guarantee justice or the rights of individuals will be protected. You cannot t***hfully claim to be for minority rights if you aren't an ardent protector of individual rights as the imdovidual is the smallest minority on earth.