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Making an issue of voter suppression 2018-12-30 39 1 1 3 democracy
It's not just Putin who enjoys social media 2018-12-30 62 4 1 1 democracy
The end game of a do-nothing Congress 2018-12-30 52 2 1 5 democracy
The new social media battleground 2018-12-30 58 1 1 5 democracy
Ranked-choice voting in the news 2018-12-07 73 8 1 1 13 democracy
What happens with a do-nothing Congress? 2018-12-07 18 - 2 democracy
Paul Ryan doesn't understand California election practices 2018-12-07 107 5 4 2 12 1 democracy
Want to make a tax-deductible donation toward democracy? 2018-12-05 44 2 36 democracy
No Labels Unity Campaign 2018-12-04 24 - 1 democracy
The art of gerrymandering 2018-11-29 144 3 6 17 democracy
Deep dark money 2018-11-27 91 7 5 13 1 democracy
Executive v Judicial - 2018-11-25 56 1 3 9 1 democracy
Looking toward the middle for abundance and hope 2018-11-23 218 3 1 7 13 1 democracy
The first conspiracy party and the first third party 2018-11-23 32 - 3 1 democracy
In every thing give thanks 2018-11-21 82 5 3 14 democracy
Big money in politics 2018-11-20 35 - 1 3 democracy
Ranked-choice-voting - a win for democracy in Maine 2018-11-16 84 7 14 democracy
What to do about the Electoral College? 2018-11-13 57 2 3 7 democracy
Ranked choice voting and multimember districts for better 2018-11-12 307 3 3 4 41 democracy
Can the people's House rule by the power of the purse? 2018-11-09 35 2 2 democracy
Don't be like the Trumpists! 2018-11-08 85 4 1 16 democracy
Russians showed the way, and Americans followed, and social 2018-11-06 88 11 3 11 democracy
How Congress evolved from do-nothing-much to 2018-11-05 120 7 3 41 democracy
Dark money is a national security issue 2018-11-02 193 22 10 10 42 1 democracy
Gerrymandering is big business - 2018-11-02 136 8 3 6 25 democracy
From Washington's Farewell Address - 2018-10-30
2018-11-06
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Washington's Letter to Newport 2018-10-30 39 2 1 democracy
What if everybody voted? 2018-10-29 43 - 1 2 11 democracy
Ever been glad you had a street address? 2018-10-20 575 43 11 26 78 1 democracy
Voter suppression - one of the pillars of Republican power 2018-10-19 255 31 4 15 45 democracy
Who needs good teachers if we are going to cede world 2018-10-10 241 11 3 8 30 democracy
Centrist Democrats endorse rules changes to break gridlock 2018-10-10 30 1 1 4 democracy
How can we increase voter turnout in midterm elections? 2018-10-09 33 - 1 5 democracy
What makes a perfect Supreme Court Justice? 2018-10-09 162 13 5 4 35 democracy
More than 80 percent of Americans with college degrees 2018-10-03 307 14 1 10 83 democracy
Can crowdlaw save democracy in Europe and America? 2018-10-02 35 3 2 democracy
Should the Speaker of the House represent the majority 2018-09-30 97 3 1 58 democracy
Sorry PR's, your complexion is too dark for statehood 2018-09-26 310 21 7 4 80 1 1 democracy
There needs to be a way to get rid of an incompetent 2018-09-26 156 15 8 5 57 democracy
The Vast Wasteland 2018-09-20 40 2 4 democracy
At last, some good news about dark money 2018-09-18 88 14 2 2 22 1 democracy
Problem Solvers committing to House rules changes to Break 2018-09-18 47 2 1 7 1 democracy
Massachusetts needs ranked-choice voting 2018-09-18 14 - 5 democracy
Public libraries - Carnegie was right. 2018-09-18 583 24 1 8 44 2 democracy
It's time to end the racist imperialist tradition and make 2018-09-14 69 5 3 1 10 2 democracy
The reactionaries win every time they get progressives to 2018-09-14 203 4 4 3 30 democracy
The permanent fix to gerrymandering 2018-09-13 33 3 1 1 5 democracy
The real Kavanaugh threat 2018-09-13 151 7 2 8 32 1 democracy
When did you last change your mind on a significant 2018-09-08 36 4 1 4 democracy
How can President Trump become as great as President 2018-09-06 27 - 1 democracy
Independents Day 2018-08-29 36 2 2 democracy
Be done with caucuses! 2018-08-27 81 3 3 2 14 democracy
In the greatest traditions of American democracy 2018-08-24 73 1 2 16 democracy
the broader influence of celebrity culture on politics is 2018-08-17 80 6 1 12 democracy
No good deed goes unpunished, and no good law can't be 2018-08-16 50 1 1 4 democracy
How are violent leftists different from violent rightists? 2018-08-13 62 6 1 26 1 democracy
Declining PAC money - a choice no Republican makes 2018-08-12 67 5 1 1 5 democracy
Good result, but a bad precedent? 2018-08-12 30 - 2 democracy
How dark money works - 2018-08-01 87 5 3 11 democracy
Ranked choice voting training 2018-07-25 26 - 2 1 democracy
Writing new rules to change a do-nothing Congress 2018-07-25 29 2 2 democracy
Bringing basic political rights to residents of Federal 2018-07-25 54 5 1 4 1 democracy
NRA, Putin, and keeping the dark money dark 2018-07-20 279 19 14 10 80 1 democracy
We need less dark money, not more 2018-07-17 396 19 7 9 63 2 democracy
Measuring gerrymandering mathematically 2018-07-15 59 1 1 7 1 democracy
Dismantling American Imperialism in DC and the other 2018-07-13 91 7 2 5 20 democracy
How much justice can you afford? 2018-07-13 127 16 3 4 17 democracy
Time to change the rules of the House? 2018-06-22 90 3 1 1 14 democracy
Maine tries preferential voting today 2018-06-12 32 - 3 democracy
Between a rocky primary and a hard election 2018-05-06 48 2 10 1 democracy
Replace the Electoral College? 2018-05-03
2018-06-03
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National Summit for Democracy 2018-04-30 166 5 3 2 29 1 democracy
What is bipartisan problem solving? 2018-04-25
2018-06-03
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1 157 democracy
Preferential voting allows minority representation 2018-04-24
2018-06-03
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Making an issue of voter suppression

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/opinion/wisconsin-michigan-democrats-hardball.html

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topic democracy

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It's not just Putin who enjoys social media

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/cafe-emissions-rollback-oil-industry.html

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topic democracy 1

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The end game of a do-nothing Congress

If Congress can't act, then the executive over-reaches
and the judiciary over-activates.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/us/politics/congress-trump-government-shutdown.html

And with this executive and judiciary, that's bad news
for everybody -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/upshot/the-economy-is-still-strong-the-risk-for-2019-is-that-leadership-turns-a-mild-shock-into-a-crisis.html

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topic democracy

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The new social media battleground

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/29/neighbor-wars-how-nextdoor-is-changing-the-bay-areas-housing-debate/

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Ranked-choice voting in the news

 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-meyerson-primary-ranking-20181129-story.html

 https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/419533-a-simple-fix-for-gerrymandering

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What happens with a do-nothing Congress?

Do-nothing Congresses lead to over-reaching executives
and activist judiciaries.       Partisan gridlock kept
Obama and Trump from making progress on their legislative
priorities even when they had narrow margins in Congress.
Issues with bipartisan centrist support can't make headway
against uncompromising extremes.

Not everybody is in favor of centrist bipartisan politics,
but that's the way things get done.       There's an
intellectual disconnect - most voters favor European-style
social safety nets but don't favor European-style tax
structures to support it.       So there's a learning
curve.     Social security and medicare were once
considered extreme.   Obamacare is gaining acceptance too
- perhaps more voters are beginning to understand that it
has to be paid for somehow.

Nolabels has been advocating for structural reforms
that permit bipartisan centrist solutions to at least be
considered and voted up or down.        And they've been
resisted by those determined to deny any victory to the
other party.         You can read the back and forth -

 https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/420055-setting-the-record-straight-sbout-no-labels

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-no-labels-mark-pocan_us_5c06b110e4b0cd916fb0b042

 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/07/the_truth_about_no_labels_138856.html

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/no-labels-response-wisconsin-michigan-republican-power-grabs_us_5c096827e4b04046345a21a0

Like just many other poltiical advocacy organizations,
Nolabels should be more forthcoming about its funding
sources.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Labels

But its critics should be more  forthcoming about how they
plan to get Congress functional again.

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Paul Ryan doesn't understand California election practices

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/07/opinion-berman-election-integrity/

Evidently Wisconsin Republicans don't think much of the
idea of making it easier for every eligible voter to vote.

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/paul-ryan-questions-californias-vote-counting-process-as-bizarre

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Want to make a tax-deductible donation toward democracy?

Getting ready for tax season?  Political contributions are
not tax deductible.  But if a tax deductible donation is
important to you, consider these research and education
organizations -

* http://www.fairvote.org/ retire winner-take-all
Congressional representation in favor of ranked-choice
multi-district voting

* https://itep.org/ Institute on Taxation and Economic
Policy - ensure that policy makers, media, and advocates
know the impact that tax changes have on people of
different income levels

* http://www.democracy21.org/ Democracy 21 Education Fund
retire "one-dollar-one-vote" by legislation and
judicial action

* http://www.equalrightsnow.org/ Equally American - voting
rights for residents of Federal territories

* https://www.lwv.org/ League of Women Voters Education
Fund

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If a tax deduction is not important to you, consider these
as well:

* https://www.ctj.org/ Citizens for Tax Justice, affiliated
with Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

* http://www.americanpromise.net/ retire
"one-dollar-one-vote" and "human rights
for corporations" by constitutional amendment

* https://www.nolabels.org/ support centrist bipartisanship

* http://www.uniteamerica.org/ support independent
candidates

* https://www.lwv.org/ League of Women Voters, not the
Education Fund

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No Labels Unity Campaign

 https://www.unionleader.com/no-labels-group-unveils-its-unity-campaign/article_70a21801-5207-59a4-920d-ef2157a68057.html

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More on these topics -

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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The art of gerrymandering

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/us/politics/north-carolina-gerrymandering.html

Want to do something about it?

 https://democraticredistricting.com/

More -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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Deep dark money

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-donors-gave-large-sums-to-conservative-nonprofit-that-funded-pro-trump-allies/2018/11/27/07667840-f266-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html

Another forgotten Trump promise.     Instead, he relies on
the Federalist Society for reactionary judicial nominees.

Who's going to do something about it?

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

More -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Executive v Judicial -

the inevitable result of a gridlocked do-nothing Congress.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/john-roberts-donald-trump.html

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Looking toward the middle for abundance and hope

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/politics-race-white-tribalism.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/opinion/populism-establishment-working-class.html

 http://opportunityamericaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WCG-final_web.pdf

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Who else is working toward these ends?

 https://www.nolabels.org/

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

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The first conspiracy party and the first third party

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/10/21/how-an-abduction-by-mysterious-freemasons-led-third-political-party-nations-first

All the men on your paper money - except possibly
Jefferson - were Masons or intended to become Masons.
But the anti-Masons held the first presidential nominating
convention.

Unfounded conspiracies eventually wear out their welcome
in the mainstream, and third parties don't do much better.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?  Some people argue
thatthe two major parties are too strong

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

but others respond - not strong enough.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-political-parties-arent-too-powerful-theyre-not-powerful-enough/2018/10/02/fac1f36c-c673-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html

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In every thing give thanks

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/20/we-celebrate-thanksgiving-because-this-poignant-proclamation-abraham-lincoln/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/thanksgiving-is-not-just-about-gratitude-its-about-setting-a-moral-example/2018/11/21/ebc58d12-ec32-11e8-baac-2a674e91502b_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-lessons-my-father-charles-krauthammer-taught-me-about-being-thankful/2018/11/21/c314bf34-ecee-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html

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Big money in politics

What it's done

 http://www.americanpromise.net/big_wins_for_big_money

What should be done

 http://www.americanpromise.net/winning_back_our_democracy_a_q_a_with_hedrick_smith

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Ranked-choice-voting - a win for democracy in Maine

 https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/15/politics/golden-defeats-poliquin-in-contested-2nd-district-ranked-choice-count/

Ranked-choice voting is unpopular with some career
politicians because they count on vote splitting.
Sometimes it's accidental, as with Jesse Ventura,

 https://archive.siam.org/news/news.php?id=674

and other times not - perhaps in this Maine case.
Consider a common enough scenario -

A Trumpist is polling at 48% and a Democrat at 49% - and
a Green at 3%.      (You can think of Bush-Gore-Nader if
you prefer.)

The Trumpist can see that no amount of clean or dirty
campaigning will get him any Democrat or Green votes.
So instead he surreptitiously donates his campaign
money to the Green candidates in the hope of getting 2%
to switch from Democrat to Green so the Trumpist wins.
Plays like that have been detected, more so in primaries
than in general elections.

With ranked-choice voting, as many Democrats can vote for
Greens as they like, as long as Democrats put the Green
candidate as second  choice, and Greens put the Democrat
candidate as second choice.    When the candidate comes
in third, whether Democrat or Green, those votes go to
the second choice and so the other one will be elected,
not the Trumpist.     And Greens and Libertarians and
independents and others wondering whether to run in the
first place don't have to worry about whether they are
splitting the progressive or moderate or reactionary vote.

==

Fairvote is advocating for ranked-choice voting

 https://www.fairvote.org

There's additional commentary here -

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/10/opinion/house-representatives-size-multi-member.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/09/opinion/expanded-house-representatives-size.html

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What to do about the Electoral College?

 https://www.fairvote.org/why-james-madison-wanted-to-change-the-way-we-vote-for-president

A study of projected electoral college results in 2020
based on 2018 Congressional results indicates a Democratic
victory in the electoral college with 289-324 Democratic
votes and 249-214 Republican votes.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/746494049028450

That sounds good for Democrats, but a closer look at
the daily variations as the last 2018 votes are counted
and recounted is disturbing - very small variations in
popular votes create very large changes in the electoral
vote.  Technically speaking, it's an unstable algorithm.
Clinton would have won in 2016 if the right 40000 votes had
switched from Trump to her, 22600 in Pennsylvania for 20
electoral votes, 5400 in Michigan for 16 electoral votes,
11400 in Wisconsin for 10 electoral votes.  The final
electoral vote tally 306-232 doesn't reflect that closeness
very well, nor the lopsided popular vote.  Is that really
the best we can do?  There are lots of ideas -

 https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/307359-the-electoral-college-has-to-go-heres-how-we-do-it

 https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/385525-think-we-should-do-away-with-the-electoral-college-think-again

 https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/james-wilson-popular-sovereignty-and-the-electoral-college

George Will explains how the Electoral College was intended
to protect political minorities by insuring that presidents
have to gain support across the whole country -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/02/george-will-why-trump-wants-to-replace-the-electoral-college-with-popular-vote-in-presidential-elections/

After all, the essence of democracy is observing that
minorities have rights and protecting them; simple majority
rule is the essence of the mob, which the Founders rightly
feared based on ancient and recent precedents.

Will observes that the winner-take-all outcome prescribed
in 48 of the 50 states is a critical part of the method
even though it's not in the Federal Constitution or any
Federal statute.  This is the basis for our two-party
system which has mostly provided an uncommon degree of
political stability compared to most other countries.
The necessity of gaining broad national majorities tends
to push the parties toward the center, but this tendency
has become undone in recent years by dark big money in
politics and single-issue narrow-casting media.

Popular election of the president is popular in some
circles, starting with James Madison.  But while popular
wisdom generally gets things right in the long run, it
can be fooled in the short run.     And think about the
task of recounting a very close national popular election,
an enormous labor if we go back to paper ballots, or an
enormous opportunity for fiddling the results if we don't.
This task is increased if ranked-choice voting were
adopted, which would otherwise be a big improvement.

So let's consider some ideas that might be better than
the current electoral college and might be more stable
than direct election.

== no constitutional amendment required

These ideas can be implemented by state or Federal
statutes -

1) Use the Maine/Nebraska method of allocating
electoral votes rather than winner-take-all.  This
could be accomplished entirely at the state level.
The Maine/Nebraska method elects one elector according
to the results in each congressional district, and elects
two electors according to the results for the whole state
at large.

How this would have affected -

2016 as reported - D 232 R 306 2016 by Maine - D 250 R 288

2020 as projected - D 324 R 214 2020 as projected by Maine
- D 285 R 253

The ultimate result is the same, but the spread in votes
is closer to the popular vote.

2) Allocate fractional votes to each district to avoid
at-large - in a state with N congressional districts, each
district gets 1+2/N electoral votes - so state totals per
candidate might not be whole numbers.  Assumes Congress
would accept fractional votes.

3) To avoid fractional votes, add up a candidate's
fractional district votes and discard the fractional parts
of the sum ; if there are any discarded fractional parts,
they will add up to 1.  If so, decide the 1 vote by the
at-large winner.  No need to get Congress to deal with
fractions.

4) Instead of voting by districts, consider the statewide
vote.  Each candidate gets a proportionate number of the
state's total vote, rounded down to a whole number.     The
resulting deficit votes (might be more than 1 if there are
lots of third parties) is decided by the at-large winner.

==  constitutional amendment required

Constitutional amendments are almost impossible.

1) Get rid of the physical electors. There is no reason to
have a bunch of party hacks gather in state capitols on a
given date since they have no free will - as established
by the RNC last time -

 https://www.salon.com/2016/12/13/report-donald-trumps-campaign-is-threatening-political-reprisal-for-defecting-republican-electors/

Nothing changes as far as the results.  The secretarys of
state report the final results to Congress anyway.

2) Get rid of the two extra votes.    Each state has
electoral votes equal to number of House representatives.
There is plenty of rural bias in the Congress because all
states get one representative regardless of population.
No need to perpetuate additional rural bias originally
inserted to favor slave states.

How this would have affected -

2016 as reported - D 232 R 306 2016 no at large -     D
190 R 246

2020 as projected - D 324 R 214 2020 no at large -     D
270 R 166

The ultimate result is unchanged, but the margins better
reflect the popular vote.

3) Eliminate by-state voting in the House.  Currently if
no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the
decision goes to the House which decides by voting by
state delegations.

 https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Electoral-College/

That is to say, if a state has 10 representatives, then
it casts 1 vote for president.    That vote is determined
within the state delegation; if it follows partisan lines,
the majority party in that delegation determines the
vote; if the delegation is evenly split, it doesn't get
a vote. This might be more important if states abandon
winner-take-all and so electoral votes might be closer and
third parties might be more likely to prevent a majority.
So this is important to fix because it's an overwhelming
rural bias.  Note DC doesn't participate in the House.

Compare electoral votes to state delegations (third column
is tied delegations)

2016 electoral - D 232 R 306 ; D 14 R 32 T 3

2020 projected - D 324 R 214 ; D 20 R 26 T 4

4) Just replace the electoral college with the House.
Let each new House, in January of odd years, elect the
president by simple majority and ranked-choice voting;
let the new president nominate a vice-president for
confirmation by House and Senate.  There would still be
party conventions and presidential nominees and campaigns,
and House candidates might make promises about how they'd
vote.

5) And go one step further and allow the House to nominate
a new president at any time by a 2/3 vote subject to
veto in the Senate by majority vote within 72 hours.
The difficulties surrounding impeachment and 25th amendment
are replaced by the somewhat simpler problem of getting
a 2/3 vote in the House; that's hard enough that it will
be more of a threat than a routine occurrence.  It's a
way of getting rid of an incompetent president, without
a specific finding of criminality or mental defect, and
without automatically promoting a vice-president who might
be no better.  It could be called the Trump clause.

== other reform ideas

Before too much presidential power is bestowed on the
House, it should become worthy of the honor, by mandating
ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts, as
advocated by Fairvote -

 https://www.fairvote.org/

and eliminating gerrymandering

 https://www.fairvote.org/how_proportional_representation_would_finally

and unlimited dark money

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

The NY Times explores some of these ideas, and another
one - increasing the size of the House -

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/10/opinion/house-representatives-size-multi-member.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/09/opinion/expanded-house-representatives-size.html

Expanding the House reduces rural bias and might diversify
the overall expertise.    But there's no point without
rules changes that empower members and disempower the
leadership -

 https://www.nolabels.org/

And while we are at it, how about biennial approve-or-expel
votes for presidents and senators - it's a good way to
increase voter participation in midterms, too.

 http://www.approve-or-expel.net

==

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments

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Ranked choice voting and multimember districts for better
democracy

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/10/opinion/house-representatives-size-multi-member.html

As advocated by Fairvote -

 https://www.fairvote.org/

Maybe a larger House would help too -

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/09/opinion/expanded-house-representatives-size.html

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Can the people's House rule by the power of the purse?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/opinion/sunday/nancy-pelosi-congress-midterms.html

Part of the problem for Congress is that modern society
has become too complicated and technical.      In 1787
most legislators had some understanding of most of the
issues before them.        Now it's a rare member of
Congress who can do his own taxes, repair his own car,
or re-install his own operating system.      Much less
manage money supply or get people to Mars and back safely.
So all the real decisions get outsourced and the real test
of a legislator is who he asks for technical advice.

==

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Don't be like the Trumpists!

Elections are decided by the persuadable people in the
middle, not by zealots on the edges.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/opinion/midterm-results-2020-democrats.html

But here's another point of view -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opinion/democrats-midterms-progressives.html

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Russians showed the way, and Americans followed, and social
media can't keep up

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/06/forget-russians-this-election-day-its-americans-peddling-disinformation-hate-speech/

or maybe the Russians have just gotten harder to detect -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/opinion/midterm-elections-russia.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/live-updates/midterms/midterm-election-updates/facebook-ties-newly-suspended-accounts-to-the-kremlin-a-timely-reminder-of-election-meddling-threat/

and then there's Fox

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/06/why-trumps-unpopularity-may-not-be-handicap-youd-expect/

John Dean says Nixon might have survived if Fox had been
there to protect him.

==

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How Congress evolved from do-nothing-much to
do-nothing-at-all

There's plenty of blame to go around -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/laws-and-disorder/

topic democracy

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Dark money is a national security issue

 https://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/10/25/22375/russian-money-and-influence-have-poured-through-cracks-us-legal-wall

A few Democratic candidates have decided to decline PAC
money - that's a start.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/money-politics-dean-phillips.html

There are several efforts to raise consciousness about
unlimited dark money -

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

 https://democracy21.org/

 https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/money-politics

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Gerrymandering is big business -

it's critical for Republican power in several states.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/michigan-gerrymandering-redistricting-voters-not-politicians

Much better to get rid of it forever.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

 https://democraticredistricting.com/

California got past it several years ago -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Citizens_Redistricting_Commission

democracy

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From Washington's Farewell Address -

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in
a free country should inspire caution, in those intrusted
with its administration, to confine themselves within
their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the
exercise of the powers of one department to encroach
upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to
consolidate the powers of all the departments in one,
and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a
real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power,
and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the
human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of
this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the
exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing
it into different depositories, and constituting each
the Guardian of the Public Weal against invasions by
the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and
modern; some of them in our country and under our own
eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute
them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution
or modification of the constitutional powers be in any
particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment
in the way, which the constitution designates. But let
there be no change by usurpation; for, though this,
in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it
is the customary weapon by which free governments are
destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance
in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which
the use can at any time yield.

 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Address

Compare:

 https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html

==

There's more at

 https://www.facebook.com/pg/politicalscrapbooknet/posts

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/facebook.html

 http://www.political-theses.net/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net

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Washington's Letter to Newport

 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0135

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What if everybody voted?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/upshot/what-if-everyone-voted.html

And what if everybody in the Federal territories could
vote?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

Overcoming voter suppression has been difficult and will
become more so if the Supreme Court starts acting as
protector of the Republican power structure that put it
there.      Constitutional amendments might be required and
they will encounter  the same problems from gerrymandered
and rural legislatures.

It seems a better goal, if it's going to require that
much effort, is to give the states tangible incentives
for promoting voter registration and voter turnout -

* allocate Congressional seats among states on the basis
of voter turnout rather than population

* allocate Federal aid to states on the basis of voter
turnout rather than population

* restrict political donations to registered voters

Each of these changes would have other beneficial aspects.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Ever been glad you had a street address?

It can be used for conscription and taxation and - voting
rights.      And lack of one can be used to deny voting
rights - another tool in the Republican voter suppression
kit, now blessed by the Supreme Court.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/sunday/north-dakota-addresses-voting-id.html

If November 6 goes unexpectedly well for Trump, we can
expect a lot more of that -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/opinion/sunday/midterm-elections-republican-party-trump-senate-house.html

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Voter suppression - one of the pillars of Republican power

 https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article220117195.html

When voter suppression fails, the next tool in their kit is
gerrymandering to minimize the strength of the opposition.

And unlimited dark money is the first pillar that makes
everything else possible.

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Who needs good teachers if we are going to cede world
leadership to other countries?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/10/why-are-teachers-europe-paid-so-much-better-than-united-states/

But no problem - the billionaires can afford to send their
kids to good schools.

It's all relative anyway!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-presidency-is-one-giant-act-of-trolling/2018/10/10/d6aa4632-cbe6-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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Centrist Democrats endorse rules changes to break gridlock

 https://thehill.com/homenews/house/409611-moderate-blue-dogs-endorse-house-rules-overhaul-to-break-gridlock

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How can we increase voter turnout in midterm elections?

Midterm elections are all about turnout.

 https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#voter_turnout_101

 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2018/09/25/how-voter-turnout-could-affect-the-2018-midterm-elections/

 https://www.brookings.edu/topic/2018-midterms/

Presidential elections get more turnout because more
people are interested in and have opinions about the
president.  So why not have the president on the ballot
of every Federal election - along with either or both
senators in years when they are not up for re-election.
If the president fails to gain at least 1/3 approval,
demand Congress impeach him.   If Senators fail to
gain at least 1/3 approval, demand Congress expel them.
Congress might not act - but it's a powerful incentive
to behave - and even more important, it increases voter
turnout in non-presidential election years.

 http://www.approve-or-expel.net/

And while we're at it, why not make Election Day a holiday?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-americans-to-vote-give-them-the-day-off/2018/10/10/5bde4b1a-ccae-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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By the way, it will be interesting to add up the Republican
vs Democrat votes in all the House races on Nov 6, and
see if Trump would have gotten a majority of the popular
vote.     He says the election is all about him, after all.
And likewise, based on the sum of all House votes in each
state, allocate that state's electoral votes accordingly,
and see if Trump would have won the Electoral College
vote again.

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What makes a perfect Supreme Court Justice?

 https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07/politics/mcconnell-scotus-2020-nominee-trump-senate/index.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-signals-he-would-push-to-fill-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-2020-despite-2016-example/2018/10/08/75ee6fce-cb2a-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html

The twin pillars of Republican political power are
unlimited secret political contributions and voter
suppression, including gerrymandering.  So the ideal
Supreme Court justice will be -

STRONG on the First Amendment, "Congress shall make
no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." Here
"freedom of speech" necessarily encompasses
"unlimited secret political contributions" and
if you have trouble seeing how that follows, just ask any
member of the Federalist Society to explain it to you.

WEAK on the Fourteenth Amendment, "nor shall any
State  deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws." This was the basis for the
one-man-one-vote Supreme Court decisions of the 1960's, but
any member of the Federalist Society can explain how this
was an unconstitutional infringement of states' rights.

Or, to put it more succinctly, an ideal Supreme Court
justice will be aligned with Republican political goals.

Thus the Federalist Society, the Republican Party,
the NRA, and a wide swath of fundamentalist Christians,
who formerly professed lofty abstract ideals, have taken
scripture to heart about serving two masters, and have
dedicated themselves to serving just one master, Trump.

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More than 80 percent of Americans with college degrees
vote compared with about 40 percent of Americans without
high school degrees

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/non-voters-midterm-elections.html

This has got to change.       Don't be part of the
problem!  No matter what you believe, your vote will
make a difference.  When have so many Senate, House, and
governor's races been so close and undecidable in polls
this close to the election?

Perhaps Federal aid should be distributed on the basis of
voter turnout rather than population.       That should get
states interested again in increasing voter registration
and participation instead of stifling it.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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Can crowdlaw save democracy in Europe and America?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/02/participatory-democracy/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/01/eu/

 https://crowd.law/

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Should the Speaker of the House represent the majority
party or the whole House?

The Problem Solvers Caucus and NoLabels are trying to
change the rules.

 https://www.nolabels.org/

Separately some Democrats would like to replace Nancy
Pelosi.        That might or might not be the best thing,
and certainly is not the best thing to talk about right
now, but nobody should have any illusions that it will
change Republican behavior.

Republicans are still running against Hillary Clinton,
Obama, and even Bill Clinton - primarily to deflect
attention from the Republicans'  own real accomplishments
and real intentions and real campaign funders.  So they'll
continue to run against Nancy Pelosi and her "San
Francisco values" for years after she retires.
It works for the Trump base.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/nancy-pelosi-house-democrats/570781/

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Sorry PR's, your complexion is too dark for statehood

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-an-absolute-no-on-puerto-rico-statehood-because-of-san-juans-horror-show-of-a-mayor/2018/09/24/897ec214-c021-11e8-9005-5104e9616c21_story.html

If incompetent politicians are the criterion,  New York
should be ceded back to England.      Maybe a better
criterion would be how many and how well Puerto Ricans
served in the armed forces of the US.

It's time to end the racist imperialist tradition - and
make the Federal territories fully part of the United
States or set them free.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/14/trumps-false-claims-about-puerto-rico-are-insulting-they-reveal-deeper-truth/

 http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/660784194266103

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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There needs to be a way to get rid of an incompetent
President

Trump has proved the necessity of having a way of getting
rid of a President who is simply incompetent and unequal
to the job.  Even most Republicans facing difficult
re-elections in November would probably prefer that
somebody steady like Pence was leading their charge,
instead of somebody who might truthfully be toasted (as
was John Quincy Adams and many others no doubt) "May
he cast confusion on his enemies, as he has already done
on his friends."

The incompetence clause could go like this:    at any time
the House of Representatives may nominate a new President
by a 2/3 vote conducted with ranked-choice voting.
The Senate then has 72 hours to confirm the nomination
by a simple 2/3 yea/nay vote.     If confirmed, the new
President is immediately sworn in.

This mechanism avoids the necessity of a criminal charge
and trial, or a finding of mental or medical incapacity,
or the necessity of elevating the current Vice President
if there were better choices.  One can be incompetent to
be President while mentally and medically competent for
normal life and free of provable criminal conduct.

This, or any, constitutional amendment is very hard
to pass.    But maybe the motivation will be sufficient
soon.  This mechanism would not be invoked successfully
very often.     It is very hard to imagine getting
2/3 agreement on ANY issue with the current Congress.
It might be successfully invoked about as often as
impeachment, which is never so far (Andrew Johnson was
impeached but not convicted by the Senate - read about
it in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage).       The purpose
of the incompetence clause is to get future Presidents
to consider their actions more carefully and to seek and
to act upon better advice.  Or, as with the impeachment
process, encourage a President who's in the wrong job to
resign and seek employment better matched to his skills.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-un-trumps-foreign-policy-agenda-takes-back-seat-to-controversy-at-home/2018/09/26/8690399a-c1a5-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/27/trump-becomes-punchline-un/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/people-actually-laughed-at-a-president-at-un-speech-trump-suffers-the-fate-he-always-feared/2018/09/25/990b1d52-c0eb-11e8-90c9-23f963eea204_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/26/yes-world-leaders-laughed-trump-theres-another-less-obvious-sign-diminishing-us-influence/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/give-it-to-me-trump-lets-loose-with-81-minutes-of-bluster-falsehoods-and-insults/2018/09/26/29dee98a-c1d7-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/yemen-united-states-united-nations.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/world/united-nations-united-states-trump-isolationism.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/opinion/trump-susan-rice-united-nations-reckless-alone-ridiculed.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/712755542402301

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The Vast Wasteland

May 9, 1961 - Newton Minnow described television as a vast
wasteland.      His opinion probably hasn't changed much.

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-minow-2020-bipartisan-presidential-ticket-0902-story.html

September 2, 2018 - Newton Minnow didn't use the same words
to describe our current partisan political gridlock, but
he might as well have.       He dreamed up a solution -
Biden and Kasich running in 2020 as a bipartisan team of
problem solvers.

Is this a crazy idea?    Yes.     Do you have a better
idea?  Maybe not.     nolabels is thinking about the
implications.  For starters, they compiled a quick
historical summary of previous attempts -

 https://www.nolabels.org/blog/five-facts-on-a-potential-bipartisan-presidential-ticket/

And you'd have to say that history is not particularly
supportive of the idea, but it hasn't been tried in our
current gridlocked context.     The same thought at the
time of the Hamilton Electors didn't gain any traction -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/archive/electors.html

Maybe some of that was due to the RNC threatening
electors -

 http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/rnc-trump-electoral-college-232537

===

More on nolabels -

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Millenials might not remember Newton Minnow as clearly as
Boomers do.     Here's his speech -

 https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/newtonminow.htm

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At last, some good news about dark money

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/political-nonprofits-must-now-name-many-of-their-donors-under-federal-court-ruling-after-supreme-court-declines-to-intervene/2018/09/18/851ea210-bb72-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html

It's a step on a long road -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Problem Solvers committing to House rules changes to Break
the Gridlock

 http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/15-members-pledge-to-withhold-speaker-vote-without-rule-changes

Can you get your House member on board?

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Massachusetts needs ranked-choice voting

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/massachusetts-voting-lori-trahan.html

as advocated by Fairvote -

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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Public libraries - Carnegie was right.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-to-defend-democracy-start-with-your-public-library/2018/09/18/7addf05a-bab2-11e8-9812-a389be6690af_story.html

The Trump administration - not so much.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

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It's time to end the racist imperialist tradition and make
the Federal territories fully part of the United States
or set them free.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/14/trumps-false-claims-about-puerto-rico-are-insulting-they-reveal-deeper-truth/

 http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/660784194266103

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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posted "09/14/2018 08:39:40 PM"
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The reactionaries win every time they get progressives to
fight on the reactionaries' terms

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-new-threat-to-democracy--from-the-left/2018/09/13/7e3fbb72-b790-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

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posted "09/14/2018 08:16:41 AM"
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The permanent fix to gerrymandering

There will be no end to litigation about gerrymandered
districts.     A better long-term solution is to render
them useless, while increasing the political value of
centrism over extremism.    We could finally say goodbye
to the two-faced politician who has to say one thing to win
the party primary or caucus, and the opposite thing to win
the general election.      No wonder nobody trusts them.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/gerrymandering-districts-multimember.html

Fairvote advocates for these reforms -

 https://www.fairvote.org/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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The real Kavanaugh threat

This outweighs all the others, because dark money is
the #1 problem of American politics - it funds #2, #3,
.... #infinity.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/how-brett-kavanaugh-could-help-create-an-era-of-rampant-corruption/

Actually, unlimited personal contributions to political
campaigns would be OK - as long as they were published by
donor and amount within 7 days.  The public needs to know
immediately who has been bought and by whom.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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When did you last change your mind on a significant
political, economic or social issue?  When did you vote
with the other side?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/opinion/campaign-finance-political-donors.html

It's all about vast sums of dark money and institutional
and personal ideological barriers to centrist and
independent candidates and bipartisan initiatives.

The long-term solutions have to involve getting the dark
money out of politics - we need to know who is buying whom
- and removing institutional barriers by reforms liked
ranked-choice voting instead of primaries and caucuses.

 http://www.americanpromise.net/
 https://democracy21.org/issues/money-in-politics
Voters who think that elections should be decided by
people rather than dollars, should support the necessary
structural changes to campaign finance laws to make sure
that AT LEAST we know who's paying, and better yet to
restrict political contributions to registered voters.

 https://www.nolabels.org/
Voters who would like Congress to make choices other than
the extreme left or extreme right, should support the
necessary structural changes to Congressional rules that
inhibit centrist and bipartisan solutions.

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/
Voters who would like to choose candidates other than
the extreme left or extreme right that party primaries
tend to produce, should support the necessary structural
changes to voting laws that inhibit centrist, independent
and third-party candidates.

More at
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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How can President Trump become as great as President
Hamilton?

Trick question!    Not everybody on our paper currency
has been President.

But Hamilton did get a clause in the Constitution named
after him anyway, inserted specifically to prevent (future)
immigrants from becoming President.     Trump would
have liked the Hamilton clause, because it discriminated
against immigrants.

Trump should be similarly honored with a clause, inserted
specifically to deal with anybody like him who might be
elected President in the future.    Hamilton would have
liked the Trump clause, because it discriminated against
incompetents.

The Trump clause could go like this:    at any time the
House of Representatives may nominate a new President by a
2/3 vote conducted with ranked-choice voting.  The Senate
then has 72 hours to confirm the nomination by a simple
2/3 yea/nay vote.     If confirmed, the new President is
immediately sworn in.

This mechanism avoids the necessity of a criminal charge
and trial, or a finding of mental or medical incapacity.
You can be incompetent to be President while mentally and
medically competent for normal life and free of provable
criminal conduct.

This, or any, constitutional amendment is very hard to
pass.    But maybe the motivation will be sufficient soon.
This mechanism would not be invoked successfully very
often.     It is very hard to imagine getting 2/3 agreement
on ANY issue with the current Congress.      It might
be successfully invoked about as often as impeachment,
which is never so far (Andrew Johnson was impeached but
not convicted by the Senate - read about it in Kennedy's
Profiles in Courage).       The purpose of the Trump clause
is to get future Presidents to consider their actions
more carefully and to seek and to act upon better advice.
Or, as with the impeachment process, encourage a President
who's in the wrong job to resign and seek employment better
matched to his skills.   As the song goes....

If you see Crooked Hill'ry, please tell her thanks a lot,
The recession that's due is going to give me quite a bad
blot, My cabinet is such losers, they can't even pass a
single law, And my best friend, if I had one, wouldn't
even say where it is that I rot.

I started out with lock-her-up but soon switched to harder
stuff, Everybody said that they'd stand behind me when
the game got rough, But the joke was on me, there was no
one there to even bluff, I'm going back to New York City,
I do believe I've had enough.

 -- Just Like Don Trump's Blues

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college

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Independents Day

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/election-day-could-be-independents-day/2018/08/19/45a63406-a194-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html

Many voters would like another choice besides those chosen
by the major parties' ideological extremists - the ones
who show up to vote in primaries - as exemplified yesterday
in Florida.

Unite America is working to improve the chances and
effectiveness of other choices -

 https://www.uniteamerica.org/

That's a gradual process of removing institutional
obstacles that favor the major parties.     The single
most helpful reform would be ranked-choice voting -

 http://www.fairvote.org/

As desirable as these long-term structural changes are,
for the 2018 Federal election, in most states without
ranked-choice voting, the winner is either going to be
a Democrat or a Trumpist.     Votes for independents and
third parties might as well be Trumpist votes.

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Be done with caucuses!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/27/the-presidential-caucus-needs-to-die/

A better alternative is ranked-choice-voting and
multimember districts

 http://www.fairvote.org/

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posted "08/27/2018 03:55:51 PM"
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In the greatest traditions of American democracy

Democracy is not defined by majority rule; that defines
a mob.  Democracy is defined by recognition of and
preservation of rights of minorities, even unpopular
minorities, even minorities of just one person.

Thus in America, everybody, even very unpopular defendants,
gets a fair trial, and an adequate lawyer.  (Of course,
to get a great lawyer, you might have to pay more!)

John Adams was not a great president, but who could look
good after Washington?     Adams' best claim to fame is
representing the accused English soldiers in the Boston
Massacre - VERY unpopular defendants.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

Rudolf Abel was not a terrible effective spy, but he was an
unpopular one when caught.     Even so, he got an effective
defense from James Donovan,

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Donovan

who became rather unpopular himself, as dramatized in
the movie

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_of_Spies_(film)

The tradition continues, and Michael Cohen, who probably
doesn't have many friends left, got potent representation
from an unexpected quarter

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lanny-davis-the-ultimate-clinton-loyalist-is-now-michael-cohens-lawyer-but-dont-call-it-revenge/2018/08/23/e1550056-a6b9-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

One wonders who will be left to defend Trump if it comes
to that.     The best thing Trump could do would be to
let somebody sensible choose his defense team.

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posted "08/24/2018 04:48:14 PM"
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the broader influence of celebrity culture on politics is
to transform citizens into spectators

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-republic-will-never-be-the-same/2018/08/16/c85266e8-a178-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html

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wordrate 0
words 14
ID 697463983931457
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posted "08/17/2018 09:13:50 AM"
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No good deed goes unpunished, and no good law can't be
taken too far

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-transparency-has-gone-too-far/2018/08/13/5c66b902-905c-11e8-8322-b5482bf5e0f5_story.html

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topic democracy
wordrate 0
words 14
ID 696257890718733
URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/696257890718733
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posted "08/16/2018 07:41:30 AM"
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How are violent leftists different from violent rightists?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/13/antifa-protesters-couldnt-find-any-fascists-at-unite-the-right-and-harassed-the-press-instead/

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Declining PAC money - a choice no Republican makes

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/money-politics-dean-phillips.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Good result, but a bad precedent?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/online-activists-wield-a-secret-weapon-against-hatemongers-like-alex-jones-hint-its-big/2018/08/10/2ab14fee-9b15-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/beware-the-digital-censor/2018/08/12/997e28ea-9cd0-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html

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How dark money works -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/business/the-stealth-campaign-to-kill-off-obamacare.html

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Ranked choice voting training

Fairvote is offering training to anybody interested in
ranked choice voting, also called preferential voting.

 https://www.fairvoteca.org/calendar

Fairvote advocates ranked choice voting and multimember
districts to increase diversity and responsiveness in
legislative bodies.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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Writing new rules to change a do-nothing Congress

 http://thehill.com/homenews/house/398700-problem-solvers-caucus-has-a-vision-a-bipartisan-house

The next Congress will probably very close to evenly
divided.  It's a rare opportunity for a few members to
push it toward action instead of stagnation.

 https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news-wire/PRNews_20180725DC63125/no-labels-endorses-problem-solvers-caucus-bold-break-the-gridlock-reform-package.html

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Bringing basic political rights to residents of Federal
territories

Equally American is working to bring the equal protection
of the law to Federal territories -

 https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/voting/

More at

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/660784194266103

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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NRA, Putin, and keeping the dark money dark

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/opinion/republican-party-national-rifle-association-trump-russia.html

We need less dark money, not more

 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-groups/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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We need less dark money, not more

 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-groups/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-identities-of-dark-money-political-donors-idUSKBN1K704F

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Measuring gerrymandering mathematically

 https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/could-math-solve-the-gerrymandering-problem-1

 https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/detecting-gerrymandering-with-mathematics

There are simpler ways too -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting

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Dismantling American Imperialism in DC and the other
Federal Territories

50 years ago, the House District Committee was where
rural Dixiecrats who could not be entrusted with any real
responsibility were assigned.    There they could, to their
hearts' content, punish District residents for being black.

Things haven't changed that much -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-sabotaging-dcs-self-rule-send-them-packing/2018/07/13/1e7e23ce-85f7-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

Stepping back to the larger picture, how many
disenfranchised Americans are there and where do they live?

Puerto Rico 3,700,000 District of Columbia 694,000 Guam
160,000 US Virgin Islands 107,000 American Samoa and Swains
Island 56,000 Northern Mariana Islands 54,000 Wake and
Palmyra  0 Guano Islands 0

Wake, Palmyra, and the Guano Islands have no permanent
native populations, usually due to lack of drinking water -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Islands_Act

In comparison, some state populations:

California (most)        40,000,000 Kentucky (median)
4,500,000 Wyoming (least)  580,000

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population

The District of Columbia is allowed to vote in presidential
elections by the 23rd Amendment, and has a non-voting
representative in the House.  Residents of the listed
islands have fought bravely in our wars but are not allowed
to vote in Federal elections, and have only non-voting
representatives in the House.  Yet residents of all these
territories can't claim any citizenship except American,
and some of them aren't even American citizens, only
American Nationals -

 https://www.immihelp.com/immigration/us-national.html

and lots of Americans don't even grant them that -

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/07/12/cop-resigns-viral-video-woman-harassed-puerto-rico-shirt/778982002/

It's time to put this racist imperialist past behind us
and US.  What the Federal territories have in common is an
average skin tone that is darker than the Trump-preferred
Norwegian.

So very few politicians are interested in the issue -
certainly no Republicans want to elevate Puerto Rico or
DC to reliably Democratic statehood.  So they don't bother
to prepare for the inevitable -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/fema-puerto-rico-maria.html

On a tiny budget, Equally American is campaigning for
voting rights for these disenfranchised Americans:

 http://www.equalrightsnow.org/

But the ultimate solution is to get all American citizens
and nationals into a state - or else independence or
affiliation with another tiny island nation, if they
prefer that.

* Puerto Rico has a larger population than twenty states.
It should be elevated to statehood.

* District of Columbia has a larger population than
Vermont or Wyoming, but it is too small geographically to
be a state.   It should be receded to Maryland, whence
it came, so its residents have state resident rights.
Nobody worries that receding Arlington and Alexandria
to Virginia in 1846 has undermined national security;
the Department of Defense and the intelligence agencies
function fine outside DC.   Federal reservations within
DC would remain Federal reservations.

The other islands are too small in population to become
states.

* US Virgin Islands could become part of the state of
Puerto Rico; they are very close geographically.

* Guam, Northern Marianas, American Samoa, and Swains
Island could become part of the state of Hawaii.

* The Guano and other uninhabited islands should remain
under the jurisdiction of the Departments of the Interior
or Defense as appropriate.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories

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How much justice can you afford?

Just whisper in my ear -

 https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-12/millions-from-anonymous-donors-to-influence-kavanaugh-fight

Dark money in politics is probably the biggest threat to
American democracy.

American Promise is working one approach -

 http://www.americanpromise.net

Democracy 21 has another -

 http://www.democracy21.org/

But political donations should be restricted to registered
voters (real American persons) and published promptly so
everybody can see who's paying for what -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Time to change the rules of the House?

 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/house-speaker-reform.html

An idea from nolabels:

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Maine tries preferential voting today

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/12/maine-will-try-a-whole-new-way-of-voting-on-tuesday/

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Between a rocky primary and a hard election

One reason (among many) that politicians in closed primary
states with contestable general elections have difficulty
maintaining their intellectual integrity, is that they
have to say one thing to win the primary and the opposite
thing to win the general election.  The voters who show
up for primary elections are more ideological on average
than those for general elections.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/republicans-whose-jobs-once-seemed-safe-are-struggling-for-a-2018-survival-strategy/2018/05/06/031e931e-4f49-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

This applies to Republicans and Democrats.

Big donors want to invest in candidates who will win
at both levels and so often end up rewarding this kind
of behavior.  It means that voters have no idea what the
candidate really believes or really will do.  Maybe the
candidate has no idea either.

A better approach is preferential voting, which has the
potential to decide most races with just one election.
Every member of every party can rank all the candidates
by preference, so all candidates have an incentive to seek
broad support beyond their own party's ideological base.

 http://www.fairvote.org/

The open primaries in California and elsewhere have their
own issues; in a large field, California's does not insure
that either of the top-two represent the majority.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_primaries_in_the_United_States

It would be nice to think that part of the solution is to
get the big money out of politics.     When there are many
small donors, each one has relatively little influence.

 http://www.americanpromise.net

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Replace the Electoral College?

George Will explains, for those who skipped or slept
through civics class, how the Electoral College was
intended to protect political minorities by insuring that
presidents have to gain support across the whole country:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/02/george-will-why-trump-wants-to-replace-the-electoral-college-with-popular-vote-in-presidential-elections/

After all, the essence of democracy is observing that
minorities have rights and protecting them; simple majority
rule is the essence of the mob, which the Founders rightly
feared based on ancient and recent precedents.

Will observes that the winner-take-all outcome prescribed
in 48 of the 50 states is a critical part of the method
even though it's not in the Federal Constitution or any
Federal statute.    This is the basis for our two-party
system which has mostly provided an uncommon degree of
political stability compared to most other countries.
The necessity of gaining broad national majorities tends
to push the parties toward the center, but this tendency
has become undone in recent years by dark big money in
politics and single-issue narrow-casting media.

Many aspects of the Electoral College are obsolete:

* There is no need for the electors to meet in their state
capitals on a certain day in December; cell phones (and
even the telegraph) enabled the collusion across state
lines that the Founders were trying to avoid.

* There is no need to actually elect persons to serve
as electors for the purpose of meeting in their state
capital for one day: the RNC settled that last time by
threatening criminal and civil action against any electors
that might choose to exercise free will; so each secretary
of state should just certify the results of the election
to Congress.

* The over-representation of rural interests is excessive.
Rural interests are already over-represented in the Senate
and the House.  No need to add up over-representations.

That doesn't mean that direct popular election of
presidents is any better an idea than it was in 1787,
particularly without preferential balloting - which would
be tricky to validate on a national scale.  We could still
have primaries and caucuses and conventions and campaigns,
but without electing the President in November.  In January
of odd years, the House could elect a President by
distilling all the signal and noise generated the previous
year, voting by simple majority of individual members.

An an added bonus, to deal with the specific case of
a president whose egregious incompetence later becomes
inescapably blatant, while not rising to the impeachment
standard of high crimes or the 25th amendment standard
of disability: why not allow the House to elect a new
president at any time by 2/3 vote?      This would not
be a weekly occurrence; getting a 2/3 vote out of the
House on anything is difficult, more so if voting is by
state delegations.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments

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National Summit for Democracy

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/02/28/trump-skeptics-gather-to-ask-if-democracy-can-survive-him/

A National Summit for Democracy was held a couple of months
ago to gather perspectives from the left, center, and
right about what to do about the erosion of conservative
and liberal democratic values:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-political-center-is-fighting-back/2018/04/25/6170f646-489b-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

The Renew Democracy Initiative has an interesting
collection of directors and hopes to interpret the
Federalist Papers in light of current events:

 https://www.renew-democracy.org/about-renew-democracy-initiative/

Meanwhile, in the Senate, McConnell says he won't allow a
Mueller bill to come to a vote.  The practice of yielding
to the majority leader began in the late 1940s...  but it
makes bipartisan compromise harder to achieve.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-mueller-bill.html

But that could be overcome in the Senate; 47 + 2 + 4 = 53.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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What is bipartisan problem solving?

It might be like trying to hold back the tide, but there
are people in Congress trying to make some kind of progress
where they can agree.     It sounds simple - isn't that
what they are paid to do - work out productive compromises?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus

inspired by

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Labels

Actually, no - the ideological voter base and the big
money donors have different ideas about the function of
Congress - total victory and no compromise.

Their success - measured by bipartisan meeting of minds in
their caucus rather than by getting a lot of legislation
passed against the tide - has been in finding things
everybody could agree to.

A different kind of bipartisan operating involves coupling
two issues, one key to each side, and trying to find a
way that both can get the most important thing they want.

For instance, consider

Obamacare - the Democrats and a few Republicans would
like to fix some of its problems to make it better.
Most Republicans want to repeal it lock, stock, and barrel,
and don't want to make it better for fear that will reduce
the chance of repeal later (though if they couldn't get
it repealed in 2017 they're sure not going to have better
luck in 2019).  And in 2018 they don't want to embolden
their further-right or further-Trump Republican primary
opponents and they don't want to hand the Democrats any
kind of victory to brag about in the general election.

TCJA - the new tax law passed just before Christmas - the
Republicans and a few Democrats would like to fix some
of its problems to make it better.  Most Democrats want
to repeal it lock, stock, and barrel, and don't want to
make it better for fear that will reduce the chance of
repeal later.  And in 2018 they don't want to embolden
their further-left or further-Bernie Democratic primary
opponents and they don't want to hand the Republicans any
kind of victory to brag about in the general election.

Most people don't consider these morally equivalent
issues - but they are politically equivalent in 2018.
Wouldn't it be better to make both laws better now - for
the benefit of the majority of voters who aren't extreme
ideologues and aren't major campaign donors, who just want
to get on with their lives?

That's not to say that more significant change won't happen
in 2019.  But a lot of things might happen between now
and then, not necessarily the ones we expect, so why not
fix what can be fixed now?

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Preferential voting allows minority representation

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/23/santa-claras-voting-system-attacked-in-court-as-discriminatory/

Santa Clara is going to court to defend its at-large method
of electing a city council.      It's alleged that this
disenfranchises the 30% of voters there who are Asian.

But at-large multi-member districts disenfranchise any
minorities, whether ethnic, economic, or by allegiance to
sports teams.

Consider a city with 10 council seats and two distinct
populations, the ABC's which are 70% and the XYZ's which
are 30%.   It's thought that ABC voters only vote for ABC
candidates, while XYZ voters only vote for XYZ candidates.
The plaintiffs in the Santa Clara case believe that.

If true, then it follows that simple at-large voting
disenfranchises them.  They'll never be able to elect
any candidate.

And if the XYZ's are spread out evenly in the city rather
than concentrated in ghettos - because segregation is a
thing of the past - then having separate districts won't
work either because the XYZ's will never have a majority
in any district.

Is there no way that the XYZ's can get 30% of council
seats?  Yes, there is a way - preferential voting in
multimember districts.

 http://www.fairvote.org/

With preferential voting - also called ranked-choice voting
- as many candidates can run representing as many factions
as possible, and if there is an ABC/XYZ split as above,
the results will be that the XYZ's get about the 30%
that they deserve, and nobody wastes a vote.

And fringier candidates who want to make an impact can
run and perhaps be elected if they modify their message
toward the median of the district.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

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indicator actions:link_click+actions:post_engagement
qualityrank -
results 256
spent 39