greymule wrote:
Letter to the Denver Post:
The United States Senatorial voting since 2012 has resulted in Republican Senators, who number 52 out of 100, receiving 54.8 million votes. By contrast, Democratic Senators, the remaining 48 Senators, have received 78.4 million votes, 23.5 million more votes collectively than the Republican contingent, a 59-41 percent majority for Democrats, if it were a straight head-to-head election. The Senate, then, is ruled by only 41 percent of the American electorate in our Democracy. This anomaly of American democracy is a carryover compromise the Constitutional Convention had to make in order for the Southern Slave States to agree and to sign our Constitution out of concern that the lesser populated South would be outnumbered in any Congressional vote to abolish slavery. Similar to the Electoral College, wherein Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, 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 votes than Republicans, yet they only won 46.21 percent of the seats. In 2014, Republicans won 52 percent of votes in House races, yet won 57 percent of the seats. In 2016, The Democrats won 48% of the total votes for House candidates to the Republicans 49%, yet the Republicans won 55% of the seats. (Independent votes bring the total to 100%.) The American electorate 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 truthfully 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.