He is wrong about the Senate. The two Houses of Congress were necessary as the "Great Compromise" between small and large states.
He said something in there that I have banged on about with regard to the EC and the Senate and how unfair it is.
I'll ask you this: At it's must fundamental, is it okay for one per son in Wyoming to have the same amount of say as 68 people in California. That to me, is fundamentally unfair. Let's take it to the nth degree - let's say it was 1 million vs 68 million?
You know in Rwanda, the biggest issue was that the Belgians created a ruling class called the Tutsi. They made up 15% of Rwanda's population. I did a study of the country about four years before the genocide. I said to my teacher at the time, 'I'm surprised the Hutu's haven't overthrown them". We then had a discussion - the exact content of which I can't remember verbatim - but it was something along the lines (this was my teacher saying this) that sometimes it doesn't take a lot of people to control a larger group of people. Or course, four years later and 100s of 1000s of dead Tutsi's later.
If you want to live in 'the greatest, freest' and dear I say 'fairest' country in the world, then I'm sorry, somebody in Wyoming having more representation at a Federal level will not work. Resentment will grow.
I'll also say this: Surely any really pressing matters for the smaller states can be sorted at a state level. Also, if a smaller state does have an issue, who's to say the larger states won't agree with them if they put up a good argument?
If you marginalize people, and they think a systems is unfair, there will be repercussions. The video touched on them.
1. The US Constitution went thru the big state vs small state debate in 1776. Its ******* over. Stop whining about it.
2. Move to Wyoming if that issue is so important to you.
3. You can resent the EC until you die, it is not going to ******* change.
4. If the EC was replaced by a popular vote only 4-states would matter, and the folks in the other 46 states would be resentful too.
5. The Constitution has done us well since 1776, as has the EC, if you really feel resentment, try a therapist.
The Founding Fathers Wrote a Constitution for a small coastal nation of 3.5 million people where the rest of the world lived a minimum of 6 weeks and a perilous sea voyage away. Canons were the most powerful weapons and guns were single shot pistols and muskets.
If your 200 year old Constitution was really working for you, neither of the worst two fiscally destructive Presidents in history would have been elected. There would have been no Iraq War, and no ISIS. You’d have competent leadership in this pandemic instead of a guy who is shoveling money to his donors and friends while cutting off funding to states, cities and people who didn’t vote for him.
The video is spot on. It is supposed to be government of the people, for the people, by the people and it’s not anything like that.
The Roman Republic endured for 1000 years because the elites never got greedy, and they fully recognized that as long as the Head Count was well fed, happy and entertained, they could play they corrupt games and nobody cared. Bread and circuses.
Well the American head count are not well fed, the are not happy and they sure as **** aren’t being entertained.
Your Republic has failed and the people have lost. Don’t think they aren’t pissed off.
1. At least Dr Grump liked your post.
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3. In 2016 Americans were fed up with the DC "deep state", before that it was the "Tea Party". Trump is the answer. You'll see in November.
4. The US republic has not "failed"? Its even weird that you could type something that stupid? Name one other country in the world as indispensable as the US to protect human rights and freedom around the world.
5. The US Constitution has served us well for over 250 years, I see no reason to change it except to stop "anchor babies".
I'm not a fan of the Roman Empire, but I am a huge fan of the Roman Republic which preceeded it. There are many parallels between the Roman Republic and the decline of the American Empire. Donald Trump is your Sulla. The leader who destroyed the Republic, leading to the madness that following under the Emperors.
The Americans were fed up with partisanship in 2008 when they elected Obama as well. Americans have been fed up with Republican fiscal mismanagement since Reagan was in power, but Republicans have done an amazing impression of fiscal responsibility, while they shovelled cash by the bucketloads to the wealthy, at the expense of working Americans and the middle class.
Donald Trump was elected because he promised working men and women he was for THEM. And he lied. This is the third economic crash in 40 years and Republicans have used all of them to transfer the wealth of the nation to the top. These PPP loans are going to public corporations and large Republican donors who don't need the cash, while mom and pop businesses are completely shut out and are shuttering.
As for your number 4, your coasting on past glories. Under Donald Trump the USA now the country that is
LEAST LIKELY TO PROTECT RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IN THE WORLD. Donald Trump has no interest in human rights and freedoms. He has enabled dictators and authoritarians around the world with his hands off approach to human rights and freedoms. The USA used to leverage it's buying power to insist on environment and human rights provisions in trade agreements. Trump's new agreements remove those provisions.
What has the USA done to protect freedoms under Donald Trump? Abandon the Kurds to Turks and the Syrians? Separate families at the border, leading to the deaths of 7 refugee children since his election? Helped the Saudi's commit genocide in Yemen? Shut down non-Chistian, non-white immigration?
You have a white nationalist government by the sons and daughter of the Ivy League schools - the elites. 40% of your population is dependent on government handouts, with no access to quality education or health care. They are poor, in poor health, and they're being swept by a pandemic. Republicans are now seriously suggesting sacrificing your elderly to save the economy.
As a land with liberty, opportunity and justice for all? You're a total failure.