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========== Recommendations for American democracy. https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/report Some require constitutional amendments - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments They tend to undermine minority rule so expect little support from Republicans - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html == https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/report topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-12-18 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Recommendations for American democracy. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 25 ID 1316931915317991 impress 14 likeuimpress 12 likeuusers 12 oimpress 14 oreach 13 posted "12/18/2020 09:45:46 AM" reach 13 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0R5L1b4wcHt83Jom1LXoV9R7eUB95d4tNceTxAbSKTfArNQwZrzmGugmaDyTVr95Wl ========== Want to donate for better political and economic democracy and get a year-end tax deduction? Consider learning about one of these - American Promise Education Fund - campaign finance https://americanpromise.net/ FairVote - election reform https://www.fairvote.org/ Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - tax fairness https://itep.org/ Brennan Center for Justice - election integrity - campaign finance https://www.brennancenter.org/ Common Cause Education Fund - campaign finance - election integrity https://www.commoncause.org/education-fund/ Democracy 21 Education Fund - campaign finance https://democracy21.org Election Reformers Network - election integrity https://electionreformers.org/ Equal Citizens Foundation - campaign finance - election integrity https://equalcitizens.us/ League of Women Voters Education Fund - democratic participation https://www.lwv.org/ Protect Democracy Project - election integrity https://protectdemocracy.org/ If you don't need or care about a tax deduction, most of these organizations have affiliates that support candidates and issues and so aren't tax deductible. == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-12-16 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Want to donate for better political and economic democracy topic democracy wordrate 0 words 120 ID 1315893212088528 impress 18 likeuimpress 14 likeuusers 14 oimpress 18 oreach 15 posted "12/16/2020 08:56:31 PM" reach 15 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid029rUPXUmMvWHVf9QqK7YpgcX9cGX5brLjc41271QKhV7C4DQD2dwCYtkp4wHP6MjQl ========== "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States" Since when? Ideas for restoring Congress - https://modernizecongress.house.gov/recommendations https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-needs-to-curb-presidential-power-heres-how-it-can-start-to/2020/12/15/ffde4c32-3f12-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html Oddly enough, they include restoring pork-barrel earmarks to increase commitment and bargaining power for all members. Here are more - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-12-16 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested topic democracy wordrate 0 words 46 ID 1315630148781501 impress 19 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 17 oimpress 19 oreach 18 posted "12/16/2020 11:43:47 AM" reach 18 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0Ty5KaNDSGY8aX39vSQ52ZWe26QXibQpdggKhpapRXMbk7H16g8VJ5qEegyYjekdwl ========== Recent commentaries on political-scrapbook.net Regional Assemblies to thwart Minority Rule - 3 Dec 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html What is the positive Democratic message that unites all Americans? - 30 Nov 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-message.html Studies of 2020 election results - 24 Nov 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-election.html What should be done about the Electoral College? - 19 Nov 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-electoral-college.html Universal Basic Income and Flat Tax - 18 Nov 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html Restore Congress by Inhibiting Ideological Extremism - 3 Nov 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html Avoid Constitutional Crises - 20 Sep 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-crises.html End Minority Rule - 20 Sep 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Offenses of Trump and the Republican Party - 18 Sep 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-offenses.html All at https://www.political-scrapbook.net/#hot-topics == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-12-10 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Recent commentaries on political-scrapbook.net topic democracy wordrate 0 words 98 ID 1311387172539132 impress 15 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 oimpress 15 oreach 14 posted "12/10/2020 03:51:59 PM" reach 14 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02v1EQxsRvAwE9BKiWm5HaounwanCXDGsdigtBgWvQJNkgiETvATnbMKoeWGzkgS4Bl ========== What should be done about the Electoral College? A study of projected electoral college results in 2020 based on 2018 Congressional results indicated a Democratic victory in the electoral college with 289-324 Democratic votes and 249-214 Republican votes. The actual vote will be 306-232, almost identical to the 2016 result, except in the opposite sense. 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. Biden won in 2020 with very similar margins in the same states and a few others. 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? The Electoral College was intended to protect political minorities by insuring that presidents have to gain support across the whole country. 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. 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 eventually, 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. Just look at the mischief contesting the 2020 presidential election while carefully NOT contesting the down-ballot results. This recount task is increased if ranked-choice voting were adopted, which would otherwise be a big improvement. So what might be better than the current electoral college and might be more stable than direct election? More at http://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-electoral.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-11-18 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What should be done about the Electoral College? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 444 ID 1295043577506825 impress 24 likeuimpress 18 likeuusers 18 oimpress 24 oreach 19 posted "11/18/2020 09:17:54 PM" reach 19 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid034iz1JBy7cJqW1b5DPV4bkjZK1SogvvNugLjvJwNcXFqibU5Ek73MH3HZyD4mLutbl ========== Why does nothing much ever change in politics? You can vote one way one year and the opposite the next year - and it's hard to tell whether there's any difference. Why is that? Isn't Congress supposed to pass laws for the good of the country? Why doesn't it, no matter who gets elected? Money - primaries - media - performers! Restore Congress by Inhibiting Ideological Extremism! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 7 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-11-02 priority 1 ratio 20 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Why does nothing much ever change in politics? You can topic democracy wordrate 0 words 71 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 ID 1281402568870926 impress 27 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 17 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 27 oreach 20 posted "11/02/2020 11:36:22 PM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 20 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02MqbV5TerzgaTZKgrY8U7vRLfRbyoXr9pxHBvthgwQ4YD7WcBmK4YCpm94tKH4TLXl ========== What have we lost? 15 points of view. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-america.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 1 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-10-30 priority 1 ratio 19 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title What have we lost? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 12 engaged 1 ID 1278622902482226 impress 26 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 17 likeusers 1 likeuusers 17 oimpress 26 oreach 19 posted "10/30/2020 06:27:59 PM" reach 19 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0gAKY45X2EHVsgRa3xKJzxWA8A9n3p5DuUTuW9rMkrU4asVm2WMXRmdtxLQ6Gz2C6l ========== Weaponizing free speech against democracy! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html There's big money in flooding the zone! == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-10-17 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Weaponizing free speech against democracy! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 16 ID 1266777923666724 impress 20 likeuimpress 9 likeuusers 9 oimpress 20 oreach 10 posted "10/17/2020 06:53:44 AM" reach 10 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02t4rY4Kopt2SD8YD9HBrX6xtish4sexmGB4su677PKzFcwhwPsT6WcXCE1RsiDHsJl ========== The Missouri Compromise didn't settle a thing. There was no way to resolve, by political compromise, the sectional differences due to 200 years of slavery. A dynamic industrializing North, growing in population, could only be kept in balance with the static feudal slaveholding South, by empowering Southern minority rule, which became increasingly tenuous as the relative wealth and population diverged, The best that could be done in 1820 and 1850 was to delay the inevitable resolution by other means. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/opinion/trump-supreme-court-missouri-compromise.html Trump wants a "1776 program" of political re-education. He should start with performances of the musical 1776 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(musical) A highlight is the impassioned speech by Edward Rutledge - of South Carolina of course - in which he said, in effect, that the southern colonies would rather remain slaves to King George than give up their own slaves. A lot of this scene is dramatic fiction, but the real Rutledge apparently worked to have African Americans expelled from the Continental Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Rutledge Are we at a similar point now? We don't have slavery but Republicans have inherited its feudal mindset of minority rule by whatever means necessary, even slavery to King Putin's propaganda. The Republican senators that don't like that, don't have any way to escape, so they go along to get along, and their donors obligingly fund their re-election campaigns, and Putin obligingly helps to fire up their base. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-09-25 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The Missouri Compromise didn't settle a thing. There was topic democracy wordrate 0 words 230 ID 1248968925447624 impress 20 likeuimpress 9 likeuusers 7 oimpress 20 oreach 8 posted "09/25/2020 11:43:48 AM" reach 8 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid08mTeYzpfXRQ9q11mZdkz1mKWYzejtfpsjbhhuv4PvudVMTjZwc5P1t7KeKKiq46Al ========== Prevent Avoidable Constitutional Crises! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-crises.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-09-20 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Prevent Avoidable Constitutional Crises! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 8 ID 1244711505873366 impress 25 likeuimpress 15 likeuusers 15 oimpress 25 oreach 16 posted "09/20/2020 07:52:30 PM" reach 16 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0qhoC7CWqCzXmjSNiMfypyhGU6nnFZ5n7zM29y6ac6WxjEHAwcKSTBVpuCp6yv7zil ========== End Republican Minority Rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-09-20 priority 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title End Republican Minority Rule! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 8 ID 1244575172553666 impress 19 likeuimpress 10 likeuusers 9 oimpress 19 oreach 10 posted "09/20/2020 03:02:32 PM" reach 10 type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02xBoiCXXcK1pB2tausZcTzUnNgU14N2xDHWuidYevMxUtRCFQFgXAajz7sHM2mpoTl ========== Why is the tax law so complicated? You can try to make sense of https://www.aaii.com/journal/article/12099-inherited-ira-rules-before-and-after-the-secure-act but it may be a challenge to keep it all in your head at once. Why? Individual representatives and senators do not generally have the experience or expertise to draft laws like these. They are generally tacked on in dead of night to something big and unrelated - like CARES. You might well ask, what do inherited IRA rules have to do with the virus? The answer, of course, is nothing inherently, but a big fast-track omnibus relief bill is the perfect place to hide non-germane goodies. How does it work? Lobbyists have draft legislation ready, and when an opportunity arises, they make the most of the access they've bought with previous campaign contributions. They find a congressman who has the means to get their bit into the omnibus bill, and remind him from whom all blessings flow. They are doing the same thing for the next relief bill, whenever it comes up for serious consideration. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/coronavirus-relief-lobbyists-special-interests.html What can you do about it? The underlying problem is unlimited dark money campaign contributions. But lobbyists and representatives have built their careers around the present structure, and will oppose any change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_money https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/01/dark-money-10years-citizens-united/ https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained https://www.yang2020.com/policies/overturning-citizens-united/ This of course is the culmination of Mitch McConnell's career - getting a Federal judiciary in place that agrees that money in politics is the same as free speech in politics. It's one of the underlying reasons that no matter who you vote for, nothing much changes most of the time. You need vast sums to get or defend a seat in the House or Senate, and that money is easiest to get from major donors, who are really major investors expecting return on their investment. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 175 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-08-31 priority 1 ratio 2 react 6 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 5 title Why is the tax law so complicated? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 292 ID 1228013904209793 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1228013904209793 audclicks 5 audreach 3 engaged 3 impress 21 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 9 likeuusers 9 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 21 oreach 12 posted "08/31/2020 07:53:50 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 1 reach 12 sharesimpress 1 ========== Harsh penalties for organized voter fraud https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/08/22/mail-in-voting-civil-war-election-conspiracy-lincoln/ == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 1 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-08-22 priority 1 ratio 17 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Harsh penalties for organized voter fraud topic democracy wordrate 0 words 10 ID 1220115918332925 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1220115918332925 engaged 1 impress 20 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 16 oimpress 20 oreach 17 posted "08/22/2020 07:07:06 AM" reach 17 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== What rich white conservative women used to do https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/history/anti-suffrage-women-vote-19-amendment/ The underlying belief was that all women were, or should be, spending all their energies on their husbands and children. == topic democracy ===== comments 1 impact 22 impactrate 0 likeimpress 4 negative 0 posted 2020-08-11 ratio 2 react 7 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title What rich white conservative women used to do topic democracy wordrate 0 words 31 ID 1211583472519503 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1211583472519503 audclicks 1 audreach 1 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 5 impress 23 likeclickusers 2 likeimpress 4 likeuimpress 18 likeusers 4 likeuusers 16 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 23 oreach 18 posted "08/11/2020 03:55:52 PM" postotherclicks 1 reach 18 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Good riddance to political conventions https://www.timesleader.com/opinion/op-ed/796146/doyle-mcmanus-goodbye-to-traditional-political-conventions-and-good-riddance == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-08-11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Good riddance to political conventions topic democracy wordrate 0 words 8 ID 1211437285867455 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1211437285867455 impress 15 likeuimpress 9 likeuusers 9 oimpress 15 oreach 10 posted "08/11/2020 11:09:40 AM" reach 10 type Link ========== The census - invented to preserve slavery - ended up destroying it https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/opinion/trump-2020-census.html == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-08-08 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The census - invented to preserve slavery - ended up topic democracy wordrate 0 words 15 ID 1209070839437433 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1209070839437433 impress 15 likeuimpress 11 likeuusers 11 oimpress 15 oreach 12 posted "08/08/2020 10:10:34 AM" reach 12 type Link ========== How do you choose a vice president? You need somebody who can work with the president in a subordinate role but who can instantly switch to being an effective president. But why should potential vice presidents be evaluated differently based on gender? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/04/does-democratic-party-have-problem-with-strong-black-women/ Actually, the whole system makes no sense. Much better to have two vice presidents, both with major responsibility for half of the government, both potentially qualified to be president, nominated by the president (because they work with and for him) and confirmed by Congress (because they might become president). https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#insignificant https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-08-05 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title How do you choose a vice president? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 94 ID 1206619506349233 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1206619506349233 impress 15 likeuimpress 12 likeuusers 9 oimpress 15 oreach 10 posted "08/05/2020 06:52:19 AM" reach 10 type Link ========== Who cares about majorities if you can achieve minority rule? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/trump-2020-electoral-college.html It's built into the Constitution - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Originally it was a concession to the slave states. Now it's more of a concession to farmers and ranchers - a very small minority of Americans. == topic democracy ===== impact 14 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-08-04 ratio 3 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Who cares about majorities if you can achieve minority topic democracy wordrate 0 words 45 ID 1206240976387086 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1206240976387086 engaged 2 impress 12 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 7 likeusers 2 likeuusers 7 oimpress 12 oreach 10 posted "08/04/2020 06:44:14 PM" reach 10 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Trump wants to not count illegal immigrants in allocating House seats https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/21/trump-tell-census-not-count-undocumented-immigrants/5459873002/ How exactly does he think that can be accomplished? After the last four years, it's a safe bet that most illegals will avoid the census if they can, and will decline to answer any questions about citizenship if they can. So presumably he means deducting some estimate of the illegal population. Fortunately there's an easy way of doing that - exclude a percentage of the total population based on the percentage of Democratic voters in the last election. But if we're going to revise how House seats are allocated, why not make allocation of seats AND APPROPRIATIONS based on how many votes were cast in the last presidential election, rather than population. Unlike census data, which is always uncertain due to people that don't want to be counted or even found, vote totals are known pretty accurately. And if there were money at stake, red states will finally be motivated to get eligible voters registered and to the polls, instead of trying to keep them away. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments Or maybe this is just another executive order for Fox Reality-TV. == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-07-22 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Trump wants to not count illegal immigrants in allocating topic democracy wordrate 0 words 191 ID 1196416944036156 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1196416944036156 impress 15 likeuimpress 11 likeuusers 10 oimpress 15 oreach 11 posted "07/22/2020 04:21:32 PM" reach 11 type Link ========== Eliminate paid pollution! Facebook is beginning to see that paid political advertising right before an election is not a good or useful thing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/facebook-considers-political-ad-blackout-ahead-of-u-s-election All the thoughtful fact-based analyses went out months before to people who have an active interest on politics. All that's left is the last-minute hit pieces designed to influence people who haven't been following politics, and so they are heavy on emotional appeal and very light on facts or logic. They are sent at the last minute so the other side doesn't have time to put together an equally bogus response. That's why so many people just throw away all the bulk political paper mail they get right before the election and tune out the ads on the radio and TV. So it seems to me like a good idea to prohibit all paid political advertising in all media for a month before a Federal election. Nobody's free speech is impacted - anybody can go down to the plaza or the mall and speak on behalf of their candidate. The impact would be a well-deserved one on whole parasitic industry for hire - consultants, spin doctors, dirty tricksters, etc. At the minimum, all paid political advertising should always include the name and address of the registered voter who paid for it and takes responsibility for its accuracy. == topic democracy ===== hide 1 impact 134 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 1 posted 2020-07-12 ratio 4 react 6 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Eliminate paid pollution! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 223 ID 1188575171487000 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1188575171487000 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 3 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 31 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 24 likeusers 2 likeuusers 23 matchedotherclicks 2 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 31 oreach 26 posted "07/12/2020 07:46:55 AM" postotherclicks 2 reach 26 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/inequality-america-paul-krugman.html What to do about it? Start by tackling unlimited dark money https://americanpromise.net/ 400 families provide half the campaign contributions? One could hope that they are at least American families, but with dark money laundering, who can ever tell? == topic democracy 1 ===== comments 1 impact 96 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2020-07-01 priority 1 ratio 2 react 20 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 10 title Money is the mother's milk of politics. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 48 ID 1180689705608880 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1180689705608880 audclicks 10 audreach 3 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 8 impress 49 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 33 likeusers 5 likeuusers 30 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 49 oreach 40 posted "07/01/2020 07:32:40 PM" postotherclicks 3 reach 40 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 4 type Link ========== The end of the Southern Strategy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/01/how-donald-trump-will-finally-kill-southern-strategy/ And the end of Republican minority rule? And the end of rural bias? https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ == topic democracy ===== hide 1 impact 11 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 1 posted 2020-07-01 ratio 3 react 5 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title The end of the Southern Strategy? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 22 ID 1180550385622812 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1180550385622812 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 3 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 19 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 14 likeusers 1 likeuusers 14 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 1 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 19 oreach 16 posted "07/01/2020 02:50:56 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 1 reach 16 type Link ========== Why Trump doesn't need or care about a 50% approval rating https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-unites-trumps-apologists-minority-rule/2019/11/24/152c5d06-0d6c-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html It's all about Republican minority rule - with its antecedents stretching back to the days when only white men who owned real estate could vote. Funded by unlimited dark money from wealthy donors, voted in by single-issue voters. http://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ == topic democracy 1 ===== hide 1 impact 154 impactrate 0 likeimpress 9 negative 1 posted 2020-06-21 priority 1 ratio 2 react 29 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 15 title Why Trump doesn't need or care about a 50% approval rating topic democracy wordrate 0 words 53 ID 1172323156445535 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1172323156445535 audclicks 15 audreach 8 engaged 12 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 93 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 9 likeuimpress 70 likeusers 9 likeuusers 66 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 13 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 93 oreach 82 posted "06/21/2020 07:57:24 AM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 7 reach 82 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 4 type Link ========== Senator Grassley is still working on oversight https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chuck-grassley-why-im-introducing-a-bill-to-help-protect-inspectors-general/2020/06/17/236897f4-b0d2-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html Give credit where it's due. Structural improvements don't have a lot of political sex appeal, but they are the necessary foundation for alleviating our recurring governmental problems. Perhaps the auditor/ombudsman role should be a small fourth branch of the Federal government, with power to investigate and publish results of investigations in all branches of the Federal government. Further action will be up to those branches. == topic democracy ===== comments 1 impact 195 impactrate 0 likeimpress 12 negative 0 posted 2020-06-17 ratio 2 react 26 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 12 title Senator Grassley is still working on oversight topic democracy wordrate 0 words 75 ID 1169743963370121 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1169743963370121 audclicks 12 audreach 10 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 18 impress 64 likeclickusers 18 likeimpress 12 likeuimpress 58 likeusers 12 likeuusers 54 matchedlinkclicks 3 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 64 oreach 55 posted "06/17/2020 10:33:41 PM" postlinkclicks 3 postotherclicks 7 reach 55 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== We don't have a democratic government and a bill of rights unless we all agree to them and live them. But there are plenty of forces in the world with an interest in destroying our social agreement to live free under the rule of law. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article243269041.html == topic democracy ===== impact 67 impactrate 0 likeimpress 6 negative 0 posted 2020-06-09 ratio 3 react 14 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 7 title We don't have a democratic government and a bill of rights topic democracy wordrate 0 words 48 ID 1163509107326940 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1163509107326940 audclicks 7 audreach 6 engaged 9 impress 57 likeclickusers 9 likeimpress 6 likeuimpress 52 likeusers 6 likeuusers 48 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 5 oimpress 57 oreach 49 posted "06/09/2020 08:50:39 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 4 reach 49 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== If you can't admit you were wrong, you can never learn anything new. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/books/review/trumpocalypse-david-frum.html There aren't any conservatives left. Only reactionaries. == topic democracy ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-06-01 ratio 5 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title If you can't admit you were wrong, you can never learn topic democracy wordrate 0 words 23 ID 1157139857963865 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1157139857963865 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 15 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 10 likeuusers 10 matchedlinkclicks 2 oimpress 15 oreach 11 posted "06/01/2020 05:31:31 PM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 11 type Link ========== Planning for the worst. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/politics/trump-2020-election-voting-rights.html Meanwhile the Trumpists have contingency plans too - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/may/29/top-senate-republican-lindsey-graham-urges-older-conservative-judges-retire Not to mention the lunatic fringe - https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/ But the presidential election is Nov 3 unless Congress decides to change it - pretty unlikely with a divided Congress - https://www.democracydocket.com/2020/03/no-trump-cannot-move-the-general-election/ But will Trump accept the outcome? After all, the only way he could possibly lose would be due to massive voter fraud! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/opinion/trump-2020-election.html == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 20 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-05-30 priority 1 ratio 3 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Planning for the worst. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 66 ID 1155433254801192 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1155433254801192 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 14 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 8 likeusers 1 likeuusers 8 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 14 oreach 9 posted "05/30/2020 10:02:17 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 9 type Link ========== Why bipartisanship is dead! https://apnews.com/0b9c2ab734841cd3c5b7357dd2422bf8 == topic democracy ===== comments 2 impact 13 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2020-05-30 ratio 3 react 19 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 11 title Why bipartisanship is dead! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 7 ID 1155414641469720 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1155414641469720 audclicks 11 audreach 5 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 10 impress 75 likeclickusers 9 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 56 likeusers 5 likeuusers 51 matchedlinkclicks 4 matchedotherclicks 7 oimpress 75 oreach 65 posted "05/30/2020 09:31:48 AM" postlinkclicks 4 postotherclicks 2 reach 65 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Is the Supreme Court going to decide the next election? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/opinion/supreme-court-electoral-college.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/grading-the-electoral-college-c-for-chaos/2020/05/17/51ab3362-96ea-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/13/electoral-college-is-ticking-time-bomb-november/ If electors have no free will, then having actual human electors is unnecessary; each state's secretary of state could just certify the election results to Congress. That would be an easy constitutional amendment perhaps, favoring neither party and taking no power away from small states. Anything else would probably activate Republican's auto-immune response to democracy and majority rule. http://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Direct election of presidents by popular vote seems hazardous for a different kind of reason - aside from issues of counting late mail-in ballots - what if the final tally shows one candidates winning by 1000 votes (roughly the final winning margin of Bush in Florida in 2000)? Naturally there will be demands for a recount - but what if a secretary of state refuses to authorize a recount in that state? Who's going to make him? There are a lot of things that could be done differently, but if it's going to be decided indirectly, let it be by the newly-elected House that presumably reflects the people's will. And let it be voting by individual members, not state delegations! http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 38 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-05-28 priority 1 ratio 7 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Is the Supreme Court going to decide the next election? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 192 ID 1154082228269628 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1154082228269628 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 19 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 13 likeusers 1 likeuusers 13 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 19 oreach 14 posted "05/28/2020 02:48:28 PM" postotherclicks 1 reach 14 type Link ========== Who benefits from vote by mail? Republicans, Democrats, independents, and third-party supporters! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/us/vote-by-mail-coronavirus.html == topic democracy ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-05-27 ratio 5 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title Who benefits from vote by mail? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 15 ID 1153099115034606 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1153099115034606 engaged 2 impress 21 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 16 likeusers 2 likeuusers 16 oimpress 21 oreach 17 posted "05/27/2020 07:49:36 AM" reach 17 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Sold for thirty pieces of silver - in dark money campaign contributions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/19/its-trumps-party-now-will-be-even-after-hes-gone/ There's a precedent - in Argentina, all politicians call themselves Peronistas, no matter what their actual beliefs and actions. At least the pillars of Republican minority rule are starkly clear now - fascists and supremacists, single-issue voters, voter suppression of everybody else, and unlimited dark money. == topic democracy ===== impact 140 impactrate 0 likeimpress 9 negative 0 posted 2020-05-19 ratio 3 react 23 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 11 title Sold for thirty pieces of silver - in dark money campaign topic democracy wordrate 0 words 61 ID 1147188482292336 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1147188482292336 audclicks 11 audreach 6 engaged 13 impress 77 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 9 likeuimpress 62 likeusers 8 likeuusers 58 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 77 oreach 70 posted "05/19/2020 07:46:33 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 5 reach 70 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== An acting government! The actors are waiting for a real government to be installed in January. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/opinion/trump-cabinet-coronavirus.html There's no constitutional process for replacing a president who is just incompetent. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 22 impactrate 0 likeimpress 4 negative 0 posted 2020-05-11 priority 1 ratio 5 react 7 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title An acting government! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 32 ID 1140937812917403 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1140937812917403 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 5 impress 43 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 4 likeuimpress 38 likeusers 4 likeuusers 37 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 43 oreach 38 posted "05/11/2020 07:20:45 AM" postotherclicks 2 reach 38 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== How does a representative democracy shelter in place? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/were-basically-ill-prepared-hobbled-house-majority-frets-about-its-effectiveness-amid-pandemic/2020/04/25/1b3c1c5e-85b7-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html == topic democracy ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-04-26 ratio 10 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title How does a representative democracy shelter in place? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 11 ID 1129510704060114 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1129510704060114 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 2 impress 28 likeclickusers 2 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 20 likeusers 1 likeuusers 19 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 28 oreach 20 posted "04/26/2020 07:51:45 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 20 type Link ========== A pillar of populism - only the good people count. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/republican-party-discovers-virtues-stimulus/609244/ == topic democracy ===== comments 1 impact 13 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-04-21 ratio 4 react 10 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title A pillar of populism - only the good people count. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 13 ID 1126020061075845 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1126020061075845 audclicks 6 audreach 5 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 7 impress 52 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 40 likeusers 1 likeuusers 35 matchedlinkclicks 4 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 52 oreach 40 posted "04/21/2020 01:51:10 PM" postlinkclicks 4 postotherclicks 2 reach 40 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Amy and Stacey on vote by mail in 2020 https://takeaction.amyklobuchar.com/page/s/kfm-vbmvideo == topic democracy ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-04-16 ratio 9 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Amy and Stacey on vote by mail in 2020 topic democracy wordrate 0 words 12 ID 1122426721435179 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1122426721435179 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 23 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 18 likeuusers 18 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 23 oreach 19 posted "04/16/2020 10:54:30 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 19 type Link ========== Amy on vote by mail. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/opinion/klobuchar-coronavirus-mail-voting.html == topic democracy ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-04-14 ratio 9 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Amy on vote by mail. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 8 ID 1120806311597220 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1120806311597220 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 2 impress 31 likeclickusers 2 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 26 likeusers 2 likeuusers 26 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 31 oreach 27 posted "04/14/2020 10:06:33 PM" postotherclicks 1 reach 27 type Link ========== So much for states rights - a former pillar of reactionary constitutional theory. https://apnews.com/ba9578acf23bdb03fd51a2b81f640560 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/14/trump-power-constitution-coronavirus/ The real intent is clear - "states and the federal government reduce the excessive regulatory burden" - every crisis is an opportunity for deregulation. And thus an opportunity to lay the groundwork for the next crisis - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-governors.html The president's emergency powers are intended for those few situations where Congress doesn't have time to act. But Congress can be very nimble, at least when it comes to passing out pork - the Senate worked nights and weekends to put the CARES act, and the billionaire tax relief of 2017, drafted and passed in just a few days. So where did Trump get these theories of unlimited presidential power? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/barr-sends-a-message-dont-ever-investigate-the-president-again/2020/04/13/d8855dda-7b70-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html Trump is just testing the waters now. What will provoke him to provoke a constitutional crisis - fear of losing the election? How will his enablers in the Senate respond? Think of the possibilities if Trump and Barr decide to unilaterally impose "emergency" rules on the November election - who gets to vote, when, where, and how. == topic democracy 1 ===== comments 2 impact 652 impactrate 0 likeimpress 15 negative 0 posted 2020-04-14 priority 1 ratio 2 react 36 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 14 title So much for states rights - a former pillar of reactionary topic democracy wordrate 0 words 181 ID 1120408021637049 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1120408021637049 audclicks 14 audreach 8 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 20 impress 86 likeclickusers 16 likeimpress 15 likeuimpress 79 likeusers 15 likeuusers 71 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 12 oimpress 86 oreach 74 posted "04/14/2020 10:58:15 AM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 6 reach 74 sharesimpress 5 sharesusers 5 type Link ========== Voter suppression - one of the pillars of Republican minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/sunday/republicans-voter-suppression.html Against an epidemic and a recession, Republicans are counting on voter suppression more than any time in 150 years. Other pillars of minority rule include unlimited dark money in politics and electoral customs, disenfranchising Federal territories, and constitutional provisions in favor or rural bias - http://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ == topic democracy 1 ===== comments 1 impact 54 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2020-04-11 priority 1 ratio 5 react 9 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Voter suppression - one of the pillars of Republican topic democracy wordrate 0 words 60 ID 1118369825174202 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1118369825174202 audclicks 2 audreach 2 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 5 impress 63 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 23 likeusers 3 likeuusers 21 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 63 oreach 49 posted "04/11/2020 10:37:22 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 49 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== "Our real enemy does not come from the outside, but from within" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/coronavirus-america.html == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-04-11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title "Our real enemy does not come from the outside, topic democracy wordrate 0 words 15 ID 1118130585198126 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1118130585198126 impress 13 likeuimpress 8 likeuusers 8 oimpress 13 oreach 9 posted "04/11/2020 02:32:57 PM" reach 9 type Link ========== Presidential emergency action documents Never heard of these? Neither has Congress. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/trump-coronavirus-emergency-powers.html == topic democracy ===== impact 13 impactrate 0 likeimpress 6 negative 0 posted 2020-04-11 ratio 3 react 9 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Presidential emergency action documents topic democracy wordrate 0 words 14 ID 1118119458532572 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1118119458532572 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 6 impress 39 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 6 likeuimpress 34 likeusers 6 likeuusers 34 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 39 oreach 35 posted "04/11/2020 02:22:35 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 35 type Link ========== Flattening the election curve. Leisurely vote-by-mail campaigns and elections might have salutary benefits. Just getting rid of the incentive for last-minute hit pieces would be enough! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/08/wisconsin-election-was-mess-theres-one-element-it-worth-emulating/ == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-04-09 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Flattening the election curve. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 29 ID 1116573578687160 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1116573578687160 impress 14 likeuimpress 9 likeuusers 9 oimpress 14 oreach 10 posted "04/09/2020 01:05:38 PM" reach 10 type Link ========== Why government is never ready and never able to quickly get ready. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/america-was-unprepared-for-a-major-crisis-again/2020/04/04/df85c0da-75d9-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html == topic democracy ===== impact 21 impactrate 0 likeimpress 4 negative 0 posted 2020-04-04 ratio 3 react 14 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 7 title Why government is never ready and never able to quickly topic democracy wordrate 0 words 15 ID 1113075785703606 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1113075785703606 audclicks 7 audreach 5 engaged 8 impress 52 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 4 likeuimpress 37 likeusers 4 likeuusers 35 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 6 oimpress 52 oreach 43 posted "04/04/2020 10:05:21 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 4 reach 43 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== Blatantly embracing voter suppression to insure continued minority rule, and not the least bit of shame about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gop-challenge-efforts-to-make-voting-easier-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/2020/04/04/61f889fe-75bb-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/31/november-election-is-going-be-nightmare/ == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 33 impactrate 0 likeimpress 11 negative 0 posted 2020-04-04 priority 1 ratio 2 react 15 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Blatantly embracing voter suppression to insure continued topic democracy wordrate 0 words 22 ID 1113050149039503 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1113050149039503 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 11 impress 48 likeclickusers 10 likeimpress 11 likeuimpress 42 likeusers 10 likeuusers 40 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 48 oreach 42 posted "04/04/2020 09:05:28 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 42 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Trump blurts out the truth - voter suppression is a pillar of Republican minority rule. They rejected $2 billion to support state vote-by-mail. But they approved a lot more than that for Boeing. It's unpleasant to imagine the results of a very close presidential election, whether conducted by mail or not, whether in the presence of a virus or not. It's impossible to imagine Trump or any other contemporary Republican conceding over 534 votes the way Al Gore did in 2000. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/31/november-election-is-going-be-nightmare/ == topic democracy 1 ===== comments 5 impact 247 impactrate 0 likeimpress 10 negative 0 posted 2020-03-31 priority 1 ratio 1 react 29 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 9 title Trump blurts out the truth - voter suppression is a pillar topic democracy wordrate 0 words 85 ID 1110143559330162 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1110143559330162 audclicks 9 audreach 6 commentsimpress 5 commentsusers 4 engaged 17 impress 51 likeclickusers 10 likeimpress 10 likeuimpress 44 likeusers 10 likeuusers 40 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 51 oreach 42 posted "03/31/2020 10:47:29 PM" postotherclicks 6 reach 42 sharesimpress 5 sharesusers 5 type Link ========== Vote by mail - an idea whose time has come. The virus may be even stronger than Republican rural bias. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-vote-by-mail-california-election/ == topic democracy ===== impact 14 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-03-29 ratio 3 react 6 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Vote by mail - an idea whose time has come. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 23 ID 1108216759522842 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1108216759522842 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 4 impress 28 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 22 likeusers 2 likeuusers 20 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 28 oreach 21 posted "03/29/2020 08:45:58 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 21 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Mea culpa! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/18/elections-have-consequences-slow-response-virus-is-one-them/ Brands can't save you https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html == topic democracy ===== impact 24 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-03-18 ratio 0 react 27 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 26 title Mea culpa! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 9 ID 1099730933704758 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1099730933704758 audclicks 26 audreach 8 engaged 8 impress 33 likeclickusers 8 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 25 likeusers 1 likeuusers 23 matchedlinkclicks 4 matchedotherclicks 22 oimpress 33 oreach 24 posted "03/18/2020 05:20:33 PM" postlinkclicks 4 postotherclicks 6 reach 24 type Link ========== Tom Steyer moves on. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/opinion/tom-steyer-president.html == topic democracy ===== impact 3 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-03-08 ratio 6 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Tom Steyer moves on. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 7 ID 1092270907784094 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1092270907784094 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 3 impress 28 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 24 likeusers 2 likeuusers 24 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 28 oreach 25 posted "03/08/2020 02:05:03 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 25 type Link ========== A light to the nations - or at least a dark lantern. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/05/democracy-is-decline-around-world-trump-is-part-problem/ == topic democracy ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-03-05 ratio 4 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title A light to the nations - or at least a dark lantern. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 15 ID 1090131344664717 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1090131344664717 engaged 3 impress 16 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 11 likeusers 2 likeuusers 11 oimpress 16 oreach 13 posted "03/05/2020 04:57:17 PM" reach 13 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== How to fix the primary process? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/02/28/how-un-break-primaries/ And the winner is (or should be!) ranked-choice-voting in primaries and general elections, and no sore-loser laws. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sore-loser_law == topic democracy ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-03-02 ratio 8 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title How to fix the primary process? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 26 ID 1087654258245759 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1087654258245759 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 2 impress 20 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 15 likeusers 1 likeuusers 15 matchedlinkclicks 1 oimpress 20 oreach 17 posted "03/02/2020 09:04:27 AM" postlinkclicks 1 reach 17 type Link ========== The rest of the country is catching up to California. Republicans have been in third place for a while and show no sign of moving higher. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/28/first-time-ever-there-are-fewer-registered-republicans-than-independents/ == topic democracy ===== impact 194 impactrate 0 likeimpress 36 negative 0 posted 2020-02-28 ratio 1 react 67 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 27 title The rest of the country is catching up to California. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 29 ID 1085616268449558 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1085616268449558 audclicks 27 audreach 19 engaged 44 impress 109 likeclickusers 35 likeimpress 36 likeuimpress 102 likeusers 36 likeuusers 105 matchedlinkclicks 5 matchedotherclicks 22 oimpress 109 oreach 108 posted "02/28/2020 01:44:40 PM" postlinkclicks 5 postotherclicks 15 reach 108 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 4 type Link ========== Trump actions unconstitutional? Make them constitutional! https://defendourconstitution.org == topic democracy ===== impact 4 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-02-27 ratio 5 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Trump actions unconstitutional? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 9 ID 1084998018511383 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1084998018511383 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 26 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 20 likeusers 1 likeuusers 20 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 26 oreach 22 posted "02/27/2020 06:16:45 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 1 reach 22 ========== Partisan primaries - a prescription for voting instability https://news.mit.edu/2020/study-physics-democratic-elections-0121 Ranked-choice voting would restabilize the system, with or without primaries and caucuses. https://www.fairvote.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/news-article/three-things-feb20-2020 == topic democracy 1 ===== impact 10 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-02-20 priority 1 ratio 4 react 4 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Partisan primaries - a prescription for voting instability topic democracy wordrate 0 words 24 ID 1079572765720575 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1079572765720575 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 3 impress 22 likeclickusers 3 likeuimpress 17 likeuusers 17 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 22 oreach 18 posted "02/20/2020 01:46:34 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 18 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Are you sure you believe in local control? https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/02/16/harpers-ferry-hilltop-house-battle/ == topic democracy ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-02-16 ratio 16 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Are you sure you believe in local control? topic democracy wordrate 0 words 11 ID 1076659349345250 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1076659349345250 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 36 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 30 likeuusers 30 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 36 oreach 32 posted "02/16/2020 04:57:35 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 32 type Link ========== Same old same old in NC. Republicans investing in Democratic primaries to get easier opponents in the general election. What else are they going to do with all that dark money? https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article240150888.html This would not be a problem if 1) there were no sore-loser laws so that anybody could run in the general even if they lost in the primary, and 2) ranked-choice voting were used to allow as many candidates to run as possible without danger of vote-splitting enabling candidates to win with a minority of votes. https://www.fairvote.org/ == topic democracy ===== impact 81 impactrate 0 likeimpress 6 negative 0 posted 2020-02-13 ratio 3 react 9 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Same old same old in NC. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 90 ID 1073973662947152 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1073973662947152 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 7 impress 33 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 6 likeuimpress 29 likeusers 6 likeuusers 28 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 33 oreach 29 posted "02/13/2020 11:12:58 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 29 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Don't give up the ship! https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/12/why-reform-u-s-political-system-may-closer-than-you-think-column/4717040002/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/ == topic democracy ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2020-02-12 ratio 5 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Don't give up the ship! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 8 ID 1073535966324255 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1073535966324255 engaged 3 impress 21 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 17 likeusers 3 likeuusers 16 oimpress 21 oreach 17 posted "02/12/2020 09:40:28 PM" reach 17 type Link ========== Congress needs to reclaim its power. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/opinion/trump-emergency-act.html But it can't unless it does something about the unlimited dark money that funds partisan gridlock. == topic democracy ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-02-12 ratio 8 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Congress needs to reclaim its power. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 25 ID 1073086023035916 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1073086023035916 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 30 likeclickusers 2 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 25 likeusers 1 likeuusers 24 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 30 oreach 26 posted "02/12/2020 06:57:18 AM" postotherclicks 2 reach 26 type Link ========== Trumpism/Putinism is forever! Or at least it will seem that way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/removing-trump-wont-overturn-2016-the-results-will-be-with-us-forever/2020/01/31/7d50669e-4376-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html Even if Trump himself were to retire to a monastery tomorrow. The rural bias guarantees it. http://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ But here's a more optimistic view. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comey-trump-wont-be-removed-but-well-be-fine/2020/01/31/95816ca0-4460-11ea-b503-2b077c436617_story.html == topic democracy ===== comments 1 hide 1 impact 122 impactrate 0 likeimpress 10 negative 1 posted 2020-01-31 ratio 1 react 34 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 18 title Trumpism/Putinism is forever! topic democracy wordrate 0 words 36 ID 1064606013883917 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1064606013883917 audclicks 18 audreach 6 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 13 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 70 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 10 likeuimpress 62 likeusers 10 likeuusers 60 matchedotherclicks 18 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 70 oreach 64 posted "01/31/2020 07:42:23 PM" postotherclicks 6 reach 64 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 4 type Link ========== Lessons from Peru https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/27/lessons-perus-revolt-against-all-political-parties/ For America - anger is not a strategy. For the developing world - economic development can provoke political instability. == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-01-28 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Lessons from Peru topic democracy wordrate 0 words 25 ID 1062113764133142 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1062113764133142 impress 18 likeuimpress 13 likeuusers 13 oimpress 18 oreach 15 posted "01/28/2020 07:24:04 AM" reach 15 type Link ========== Persistent homology of politics https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/quantifying-political-islands-with-persistent-homology It might have applicability to redistricting, too. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting == topic democracy ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2020-01-27 ratio 5 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Persistent homology of politics topic democracy wordrate 0 words 14 ID 1061523894192129 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1061523894192129 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 25 likeclickusers 1 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 20 likeusers 1 likeuusers 20 matchedlinkclicks 3 oimpress 25 oreach 22 posted "01/27/2020 11:21:40 AM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 22 type Link ========== What draining the swamp sounds like - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-recording-donors.html Perhaps he meant draining the swamp of insignificant donors that block access to major donors. == topic democracy ===== comments 2 hide 2 impact 113 impactrate 0 likeimpress 17 negative 2 posted 2020-01-26 ratio 2 react 45 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 22 title What draining the swamp sounds like - topic democracy wordrate 0 words 25 ID 1061069440904241 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1061069440904241 audclicks 22 audreach 16 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 26 hideclicks 2 hideclicksusers 2 impress 98 likeclickusers 25 likeimpress 17 likeuimpress 77 likeusers 16 likeuusers 74 matchedlinkclicks 6 matchedotherclicks 16 negclicks 2 negusers 2 oimpress 98 oreach 93 posted "01/26/2020 08:41:13 PM" postlinkclicks 6 postotherclicks 12 reach 93 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Citizens United changed things for a generation. Will they prevail forever? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/opinion/citizens-united-2020-spending.html http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations == topic democracy ===== impact 18 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2020-01-25 ratio 3 react 13 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title Citizens United changed things for a generation. Will they topic democracy wordrate 0 words 14 ID 1060121967665655 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1060121967665655 audclicks 6 audreach 4 engaged 7 impress 45 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 40 likeusers 7 likeuusers 40 matchedotherclicks 6 oimpress 45 oreach 41 posted "01/25/2020 02:10:20 PM" postotherclicks 4 reach 41 type Link ========== Why minority rule is easier for Republicans than majority rule is for Democrats https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/democrats-republicans-polarization.html http://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ == topic democracy ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2020-01-24 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Why minority rule is easier for Republicans than majority topic democracy wordrate 0 words 16 ID 1059395827738269 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1059395827738269 impress 15 likeuimpress 11 likeuusers 11 oimpress 15 oreach 12 posted "01/24/2020 03:09:02 PM" reach 12 type Link ========== Don't worry! Republican senators will remember their constitutional duties - just as soon as there is a Democratic president https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/opinion/gao-report-trump-impeachment.html == topic democracy ===== comments 2 impact 22 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2020-01-17 ratio 3 react 10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title Don't worry! Republican senators will remember their topic democracy wordrate 0 words 22 ID 1054217068256145 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1054217068256145 audclicks 6 audreach 4 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 5 impress 43 likeclickusers 5 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 38 likeusers 2 likeuusers 36 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 4 oimpress 43 oreach 37 posted "01/17/2020 08:44:00 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 2 reach 37 type Link ========== Equalcitizens to be heard by Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear their cases about the Electoral College. This was written before the Court agreed to take the case - https://equalcitizens.us/electors-freedom-faqs/ == topic democracy ===== impact 67 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2020-01-17 ratio 2 react 19 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 11 title Equalcitizens to be heard by Supreme Court. topic democracy wordrate 0 words 35 ID 1054184781592707 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1054184781592707 audclicks 11 audreach 8 engaged 12 impress 52 likeclickusers 12 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 47 likeusers 7 likeuusers 46 matchedotherclicks 11 oimpress 52 oreach 47 posted "01/17/2020 07:37:50 PM" postotherclicks 8 reach 47 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== How dark money works https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-inauguration-donor-charged-with-obstructing-investigation-into-sources-of-his-contribution/2020/01/07/2a32e500-318c-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations == topic democracy ===== impact 11 impactrate 0 likeimpress 11 negative 0 posted 2020-01-07 ratio 1 react 15 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title How dark money works topic democracy wordrate 0 words 7 ID 1044608672550318 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1044608672550318 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 11 impress 28 likeclickusers 9 likeimpress 11 likeuimpress 22 likeusers 11 likeuusers 22 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 28 oreach 24 posted "01/07/2020 03:51:13 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 24 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link