| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Focus on good news for a change! | 2022-12-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608650072245534721 | 1608650072245534721 |
| Presidential election results and Congressional power do | 2022-12-24 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1606515512070262784 | 1606515512070262784 |
| More about how the sausage gets made. | 2022-12-23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606166241088897026 | 1606166241088897026 |
| How the sausage gets made. | 2022-12-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1606151164738670594 | 1606151164738670594 |
| The necessary tasks ahead to protect and strengthen | 2022-12-21 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1605569361737093120 | 1605569361737093120 |
| Money is the mother's milk. | 2022-12-17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604163166010609664 | 1604163166010609664 |
| A new state with a Democratic majority? Not while Mitch | 2022-12-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603939790734258177 | 1603939790734258177 |
| Some people have an interest in insecure, unverifiable | 2022-12-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603245989455765505 | 1603245989455765505 |
| Will the Electoral Count Act be fixed after all? Not if | 2022-12-14 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1602852410958848000 | 1602852410958848000 |
| What are the major conclusions after reading and writing | 2022-12-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1602685306162987008 | 1602685306162987008 |
| More on "independent state legislatures". | 2022-12-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600520340773691392 | 1600520340773691392 |
| "Independent state legislatures" theory goes to the | 2022-12-07 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1600511180770279426 | 1600511180770279426 |
| What is the essential strength of democracy? That | 2022-12-02 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598566586373136384 | 1598566586373136384 |
| When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers - | 2022-12-02 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598564530149199874 | 1598564530149199874 |
| Recount for Boebert and Frisch. | 2022-12-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598476957494444032 | 1598476957494444032 |
| Now is the time to fix the Electoral Count Act. | 2022-12-01 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598223965515677696 | 1598223965515677696 |
| What Palin doesn't understand about ranked-choice voting - | 2022-11-24 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1595852194192199680 | 1595852194192199680 |
| Heading toward regional federalism? | 2022-11-15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1592393318952230912 | 1592393318952230912 |
| Initiative, referendum, and recall were instituted to | 2022-11-13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591876602694365185 | 1591876602694365185 |
| GOP complained when Democrats voted for and funded fringe | 2022-11-12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1591305666299596800 | 1591305666299596800 |
| Five ways the lame-duck Congress COULD act to avoid | 2022-11-11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590889011677401090 | 1590889011677401090 |
| Along with Trump, Putin and Xi and the ayatollahs were | 2022-11-10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590582424354066432 | 1590582424354066432 |
| Libertarians strike again! forcing the Georgia Senate | 2022-11-10 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590575908519555072 | 1590575908519555072 |
| If GOP don't like these shenanigans - they indulge in them | 2022-11-10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590571966062546944 | 1590571966062546944 |
| Campaigning is easy in a gerrymadered district! | 2022-11-09 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1590193594639740929 | 1590193594639740929 |
| Regional federalism - | 2022-11-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589494755251326977 | 1589494755251326977 |
| Independent state legislatures - the latest fake theory for | 2022-11-03 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1588316302938341376 | 1588316302938341376 |
| Vastly different notions of truth lead to converging crises | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587923448411537409 | 1587923448411537409 |
| An interesting enhancement to ranked-choice voting. | 2022-11-02 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1587911901388103680 | 1587911901388103680 |
| Want to know who's paying for your next Congress? | 2022-10-25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584749103137067008 | 1584749103137067008 |
| Do you believe ANY political advertising? Why?? | 2022-10-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584367518298185731 | 1584367518298185731 |
| Minority rule? | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583586149993308160 | 1583586149993308160 |
| Future Fascists of America are cultivating doubt | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583546073808719872 | 1583546073808719872 |
| Jungle primary - another was to reduce the power of party | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583532093862051840 | 1583532093862051840 |
| Partisan judges are bad enough - | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583528450538672129 | 1583528450538672129 |
| This isn't Richard Daley's Chicago any more - | 2022-10-21 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583500950345375746 | 1583500950345375746 |
| Not fake news - many actors propagandize to promote | 2022-10-21 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583483899220414464 | 1583483899220414464 |
| Ranked-choice voting on ballots - | 2022-10-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583439778501910528 | 1583439778501910528 |
| Now the United States is for sale to the highest bidder. | 2022-10-21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583439333297512451 | 1583439333297512451 |
| What do six years of Political Scrapbook show? | 2022-10-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581147844559314944 | 1581147844559314944 |
| Often only the dominant party primary election matters. | 2022-10-09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1579209687572316161 | 1579209687572316161 |
| "a constitution that subverts majority rule, fuels | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578527286512320512 | 1578527286512320512 |
| "many lawmakers plan to shill for dictators after leaving | 2022-10-07 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578386546872311808 | 1578386546872311808 |
| "Money is the mother's milk of politics" - want to do | 2022-10-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578234205116387328 | 1578234205116387328 |
| People will vote for their tribe, no matter how bad the | 2022-10-07 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578212986082074626 | 1578212986082074626 |
| Regional federalism - freedom for red states - | 2022-10-07 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578199861828079617 | 1578199861828079617 |
| Promote minority representation by a combination of 1) | 2022-10-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577526190285283328 | 1577526190285283328 |
| Moving toward regional federalism? | 2022-09-30 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575910871141736449 | 1575910871141736449 |
| The plot to reject the Enlightenment ideals of America's | 2022-09-24 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1573534162547445760 | 1573534162547445760 |
| A horror movie - the plot to reject the Enlightenment | 2022-09-22 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572815649885540353 | 1572815649885540353 |
| So much for initiative, referendum, recall as tools of | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1572795626244669440 | 1572795626244669440 |
| The paradox of democracy - free speech can, and will, | 2022-09-14 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569894080729214978 | 1569894080729214978 |
| The goal of minority rule is protecting and enhancing | 2022-09-14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569892507902967811 | 1569892507902967811 |
| Ranked-choice voting | 2022-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569883657862795264 | 1569883657862795264 |
| Are candidate debates good for anything? | 2022-09-11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569082474558550016 | 1569082474558550016 |
| "protecting the integrity of the lawmaking process against | 2022-09-03 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1566079047800463360 | 1566079047800463360 |
| Biden to address nation on democracy. GOP leaders have | 2022-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565398410483486720 | 1565398410483486720 |
| How to avoid campaign finance laws. Non-profits for | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565346343232491529 | 1565346343232491529 |
| consociated representation? | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565189759202234368 | 1565189759202234368 |
| Biden to address the struggle for democracy. | 2022-08-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564442660122726400 | 1564442660122726400 |
| Ignore the Constitution? | 2022-08-19 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560655444363751426 | 1560655444363751426 |
| "democracy contains the seeds of its own instability, | 2022-08-17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1559959694843584513 | 1559959694843584513 |
| What kind of person wants to endlessly investigate a | 2022-08-14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558949311269851136 | 1558949311269851136 |
| Hand counting of ballots? That doesn't counter fraud, | 2022-08-14 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558948613593522176 | 1558948613593522176 |
| Fringe right wants to rewrite the Constitution on Trumpist | 2022-08-12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1558144366325014529 | 1558144366325014529 |
| The sad history of Congress trying to rein in the White | 2022-08-12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1558096492505681921 | 1558096492505681921 |
| The first attempt to split California - to preserve | 2022-08-12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1558086269636210688 | 1558086269636210688 |
| Ranked-choice voting is not hard to understand. | 2022-08-12 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557928066017476608 | 1557928066017476608 |
| "A republic if you can keep it!" | 2022-08-04 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1555027197110337537 | 1555027197110337537 |
| The GOP megadonors want to call a constitutional convention | 2022-08-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554706679895191552 | 1554706679895191552 |
| Electoral Count Act repair isn't done. | 2022-08-03 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554693862873935873 | 1554693862873935873 |
| How much has the decline of public education contributed | 2022-08-02 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554605593490366465 | 1554605593490366465 |
| Expand the House. | 2022-08-01 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1553940628668461057 | 1553940628668461057 |
| The historical argument against centrist third parties - | 2022-07-31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553617085317623809 | 1553617085317623809 |
| The Roe v Wade repeal rejected the Constitutional right | 2022-07-31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553599468292820992 | 1553599468292820992 |
| Democrats debate sabotaging GOP primaries. Just because | 2022-07-31 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553592718323884032 | 1553592718323884032 |
| Third parties??? Only if they get ranked-choice voting | 2022-07-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552784472516411392 | 1552784472516411392 |
| What does the War of 1812 tell us about 2022? | 2022-07-09 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1545634145870569474 | 1545634145870569474 |
| Why nobody has confidence in Congress. | 2022-07-09 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1545626560102744064 | 1545626560102744064 |
| Fusion parties - reducing extremism by reducing the | 2022-07-08 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1545266842272272384 | 1545266842272272384 |
| Independent State Legislatures - the final frontier. | 2022-07-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544677339258167296 | 1544677339258167296 |
| "institutions must advance also, and keep pace with | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543843899386384384 | 1543843899386384384 |
| "India's tragedy is not that it's the worst place in the | 2022-07-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1543832244988522496 | 1543832244988522496 |
| Wisconsin leads the way toward insuring that even if | 2022-07-04 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1543819552819032064 | 1543819552819032064 |
| Money is the mother's milk of politics. Big corporations | 2022-07-01 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1542850687502929920 | 1542850687502929920 |
| It will take decades to obtain majority rule. | 2022-06-25 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540728415019360257 | 1540728415019360257 |
| Democrats catch up with Republicans in institutionalizing | 2022-06-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540693181481725952 | 1540693181481725952 |
| Everybody is afraid the country is becoming less | 2022-06-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539504417942122496 | 1539504417942122496 |
| There aren't 10 Republican Senate votes to do almost | 2022-06-21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1539235193227161600 | 1539235193227161600 |
| Regional federalism - | 2022-06-21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539231973368950791 | 1539231973368950791 |
| "The conditions that helped us meet past challenges no | 2022-06-20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538886375176429568 | 1538886375176429568 |
| It would be easier with ranked-choice voting. | 2022-06-05 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533247465167630337 | 1533247465167630337 |
| Who's for defending the minority rule of wealthy old | 2022-06-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532959003042492416 | 1532959003042492416 |
| Instead of reparations, consider a Universal Basic Income. | 2022-06-03 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532569846231076865 | 1532569846231076865 |
| Crossover voting - what voters do because there's no | 2022-05-31 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531678391723761664 | 1531678391723761664 |
| Political paralysis protected minority rule by protecting | 2022-05-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531013921829552133 | 1531013921829552133 |
| Minority rule today? | 2022-05-28 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530356628079267840 | 1530356628079267840 |
| What's pushing America toward regional federalism? | 2022-05-28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530351989971857409 | 1530351989971857409 |
| Should Democrats be as obnoxious as Republicans? | 2022-05-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529606506340986880 | 1529606506340986880 |
| The problem with primaries - and caucuses. | 2022-05-23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528609553226510336 | 1528609553226510336 |
| Concentrations of power are inherently bad! | 2022-05-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528568488662401024 | 1528568488662401024 |
| California's top-2 method is a small improvement over | 2022-05-19 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527323622364176397 | 1527323622364176397 |
| It's OK to ignore campaign finance laws - if you're | 2022-05-19 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527138470539382784 | 1527138470539382784 |
| Minority rule is a problem for America - | 2022-05-17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526415102160687105 | 1526415102160687105 |
| Alito is no champion of democracy. The reactionaries | 2022-05-17 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526396293169328128 | 1526396293169328128 |
| Ordinary people don't get elected to Congress because | 2022-05-13 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1525245375514152960 | 1525245375514152960 |
| Money is the mother's milk of politics - you can buy any | 2022-05-13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525115510114750464 | 1525115510114750464 |
| Want to do something about campaign finance? | 2022-05-13 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524910861801861120 | 1524910861801861120 |
| Direct democracy - a good idea in 1911 that has gone bad | 2022-05-09 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523456702795771906 | 1523456702795771906 |
| Greens elected Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016. | 2022-05-06 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1522411393617596416 | 1522411393617596416 |
| How GOP gerrymanders Democrats into retirement. | 2022-05-05 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1522226088541245441 | 1522226088541245441 |
| Ways to improve the 2024 primary election process - | 2022-05-04 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521691342014873600 | 1521691342014873600 |
| The Constitution has a rural bias. | 2022-05-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521357644211974145 | 1521357644211974145 |
| By November 2022, either painful Putin and covid inflation | 2022-05-01 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520634118685429760 | 1520634118685429760 |
| Putin gave Biden an opportunity to lead the democratic | 2022-04-29 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519906648168407041 | 1519906648168407041 |
| Why regional federalism may be the only way out - | 2022-04-28 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519816662492401664 | 1519816662492401664 |
| Prefer billionaires running for office with their own | 2022-04-28 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519696120481411072 | 1519696120481411072 |
| Treating Federal territories as colonies - | 2022-04-21 | 486 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517202201260609536 | 1517202201260609536 |
| Swing voters are mostly influenced by economics, especially | 2022-04-21 | 508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517149253642035201 | 1517149253642035201 |
| Did the decline start with Gingrich? Or Thurmond? | 2022-04-20 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1516837569492783107 | 1516837569492783107 |
| “when the White House is in favor of something, when | 2022-04-19 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516234029950902273 | 1516234029950902273 |
| Budding democracies around the world are inspired by | 2022-04-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515926548427157508 | 1515926548427157508 |
| How to make sure the state legislature is mostly rich | 2022-04-16 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1515321356589535233 | 1515321356589535233 |
| Is more local government power what democracy in France | 2022-04-16 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1515128622457131014 | 1515128622457131014 |
| Require everybody to vote, to change politicians' behavior. | 2022-04-15 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1514790595226570757 | 1514790595226570757 |
| San Jose city council rejects ranked-choice voting. | 2022-04-12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513855641277763586 | 1513855641277763586 |
| What is the decadence that threatens western civilization? | 2022-03-31 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509582506881736705 | 1509582506881736705 |
| Rand Paul single-handedly stops sanctions on Russia. | 2022-03-30 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1509009569174806536 | 1509009569174806536 |
| Control of Congress may hinge on campaigns to replace | 2022-03-22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1506106254384517123 | 1506106254384517123 |
| Not a good time for constitutional conventions. | 2022-03-22 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1506103439041830918 | 1506103439041830918 |
| Trumpists driving out election competence in favor of | 2022-03-17 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504551167618998272 | 1504551167618998272 |
| The blessings of democracy and the rule of law - | 2022-03-14 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503513967116754948 | 1503513967116754948 |
| Insuring the success of minority rule | 2022-03-14 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503222244138360835 | 1503222244138360835 |
| Some GOP want to count ballots by hand "to reduce fraud". | 2022-03-14 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503160033856528386 | 1503160033856528386 |
| Congressional apportionment and redistricting should be | 2022-03-14 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1503159085662760962 | 1503159085662760962 |
| A cushy job - for political appointees? | 2022-03-11 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502126086494191616 | 1502126086494191616 |
| Making it harder to vote. | 2022-03-10 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501713869172969472 | 1501713869172969472 |
| Whether talking about climate, | 2022-03-06 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1500614475065356291 | 1500614475065356291 |
| “This is intended to reverse 115 years of | 2022-03-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499614806097096707 | 1499614806097096707 |
| Citizens assembly - a method for approaching contentious | 2022-03-03 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499269093051957250 | 1499269093051957250 |
| “They portray themselves as the unique saviors of the | 2022-03-01 | 117 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1498503300299120640 | 1498503300299120640 |
| Washington, Churchill, Nagy, Walesa, and now - Zelenskyy. | 2022-02-28 | 56 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1498174056964653056 | 1498174056964653056 |
| Senate dysfunction writ large - GOP won't even show up to | 2022-02-18 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494536461462298627 | 1494536461462298627 |
| The case for large legislative bodies - they are harder | 2022-02-17 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494180446434779140 | 1494180446434779140 |
| Some countries don't have equal rights for women. | 2022-02-10 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491663879222398981 | 1491663879222398981 |
| We need to fix the Senate confirmation dysfunction. | 2022-02-09 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491287311258370050 | 1491287311258370050 |
| If it weren't for colored people in cities, Trump would | 2022-02-09 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491271515639214080 | 1491271515639214080 |
| Trump nominees remember what they are there for - to | 2022-02-08 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490838816784928772 | 1490838816784928772 |
| Third parties - the Impossible Dream! | 2022-02-07 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490682171920506880 | 1490682171920506880 |
| From now on, all elections will be one-party affairs | 2022-02-07 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490496734094495747 | 1490496734094495747 |
| Manchin and Murkowski are hopeful for bipartisan revision | 2022-02-07 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490478590827241473 | 1490478590827241473 |
| Trumpist election rigging derailed in Arizona. | 2022-02-04 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1489464596524003328 | 1489464596524003328 |
| Why do real estate developers contribute to 3 out of 4 | 2022-02-03 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489289739874099204 | 1489289739874099204 |
| Time to change how redistricting is done. | 2022-02-03 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1489114103058599937 | 1489114103058599937 |
| Will ranked choice voting | 2022-02-03 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489113248070713347 | 1489113248070713347 |
| Ruthless Democratic gerrymandering now might make it | 2022-02-01 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1488303808190902274 | 1488303808190902274 |
| Trump might have improved the chances of Electoral Count | 2022-01-31 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1488296538946162688 | 1488296538946162688 |
| Imagining Trumpist tactics in 2024 - | 2022-01-27 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1486568805107044357 | 1486568805107044357 |
| Different approaches to redistricting and House control | 2022-01-25 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485852216023916545 | 1485852216023916545 |
| How come whenever they actually find voting fraud - it's | 2022-01-24 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485707249137819872 | 1485707249137819872 |
| Texas thinks up novel methods of voter suppression - | 2022-01-24 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485475850472460295 | 1485475850472460295 |
| Moving the filibuster from 67 to 60 - one of Mondale's | 2022-01-23 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485158197014851586 | 1485158197014851586 |
| Make Election Day a state holiday! | 2022-01-21 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484658719778435073 | 1484658719778435073 |
| Voter rights have to be preserved at the state level, | 2022-01-21 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484375926079066115 | 1484375926079066115 |
| Sometimes it's hard to stay motivated | 2022-01-20 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1484288493291335681 | 1484288493291335681 |
| Georgia leads the way in voter suppression - | 2022-01-20 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484177809744404484 | 1484177809744404484 |
| Don't waste taxpayer dollars on voter suppression cops - | 2022-01-20 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484176333936611338 | 1484176333936611338 |
| Manchin and Murkowski think there are 10 GOP votes for | 2022-01-20 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484022672983932930 | 1484022672983932930 |
| “If NASA functioned like the United States Senate, | 2022-01-19 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1483893455294124036 | 1483893455294124036 |
| Don't let the perfect prevent the better. Can ANY parts | 2022-01-19 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1483878807794638848 | 1483878807794638848 |
| All about the filibuster - | 2022-01-19 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1483876200845963264 | 1483876200845963264 |
| Voting rights have to be won state by state, block | 2022-01-17 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482959848018874371 | 1482959848018874371 |
| Trumpists tried hard to interfere with the census, | 2022-01-17 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482886869280985089 | 1482886869280985089 |
| The enduring legacy of white moderates. | 2022-01-17 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482885600139100162 | 1482885600139100162 |
| Alaska hopes to reduce partisanship with ranked-choice | 2022-01-17 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1482881802452684801 | 1482881802452684801 |
| Ohio gerrymander violates state law. | 2022-01-15 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482193065573904384 | 1482193065573904384 |
| Texas voting law working as intended to restore confidence | 2022-01-15 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482184863834771458 | 1482184863834771458 |
| Sounds very much like it's all about protecting unlimited | 2022-01-13 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1481712453205770241 | 1481712453205770241 |
| Plan B - get everybody to vote on the record. For | 2022-01-12 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1481414960043360256 | 1481414960043360256 |
| Manchin didn't budge. That's how he wants to be | 2022-01-12 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1481155084071305219 | 1481155084071305219 |
| Biden to speak forcefully for voting rights. But will he | 2022-01-11 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480906770910351361 | 1480906770910351361 |
| Voting rights appear to be the issue that this Congress | 2022-01-11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480759073498824709 | 1480759073498824709 |
| What kind of nation do we want to be? | 2022-01-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480395503904845824 | 1480395503904845824 |
| Election reform proposals. | 2022-01-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1479535939118518272 | 1479535939118518272 |
| GOP is subverting election law from the bottom up. | 2022-01-07 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1479523683018280961 | 1479523683018280961 |
| Election integrity should be viewed as cult of personality | 2022-01-07 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1479522019217530884 | 1479522019217530884 |
| Ordinary Democrats and Republicans are much less rabid than | 2022-01-07 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1479513305429409796 | 1479513305429409796 |
| Regional federalism | 2022-01-06 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1478977662987030529 | 1478977662987030529 |
| If the GOP actually has the votes to change the Electoral | 2022-01-06 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1478963895884988418 | 1478963895884988418 |
| Autocratic birds of a feather - Trump endorses Orban. | 2022-01-04 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1478195882734456834 | 1478195882734456834 |
| "absurd and dangerous to the institution" | 2022-01-04 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1478162430551224321 | 1478162430551224321 |
| Biden finally confronts threat to American democracy and | 2022-01-03 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477991956949000194 | 1477991956949000194 |
| Who's going to run the Democratic House in majority or | 2022-01-03 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477847259022651393 | 1477847259022651393 |
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========== Focus on good news for a change! https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/2022-democracy-rises #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-30 02:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608650072245534721 ========== Presidential election results and Congressional power do not reflect American voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ But there's still a counter-argument to make. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/midterm-elections-minority-rule-republicans-myth/ But it's not a very good one. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 time 2022-12-24 05:02 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606515512070262784 ========== More about how the sausage gets made. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/politics/government-funding-bill-analysis/index.html It's not pretty, but that's how it works. The miracle is that they pass anything at all. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-23 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606166241088897026 ========== How the sausage gets made. https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-4ce3cf1ee887747b13fe8d007b8ffd75 Wouldn't it be better to focus on one issue in one bill at a time? Sure, except Congress would run out of time and never pass anything. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-23 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606151164738670594 ========== The necessary tasks ahead to protect and strengthen democracy. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/how-to-prevent-another-january-6 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 25% expands 2 impress 8 time 2022-12-21 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1605569361737093120 ========== Money is the mother's milk. https://apnews.com/article/nebraska-omaha-pete-ricketts-ben-sasse-ec19501e5c57a677505118c6dae9e820 #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-17 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604163166010609664 ========== A new state with a Democratic majority? Not while Mitch McConnell is in the Senate! https://apnews.com/article/politics-california-los-angeles-san-bernardino-5452ca0d1a3d06387dbb3e05305ca011 As in 1820, no new free states without corresponding new slave states. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-17 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603939790734258177 ========== Some people have an interest in insecure, unverifiable elections - they're an excuse for "independent state legislatures" to intervene. Everybody else has the opposite interest. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/congress-must-fund-election-security #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-15 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603245989455765505 ========== Will the Electoral Count Act be fixed after all? Not if the House Trumpists have their way - voting against the omnibus appropriations bill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/13/electoral-count-act-reform-trump-2024-coup-maga/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 time 2022-12-14 02:26 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602852410958848000 ========== What are the major conclusions after reading and writing about American political and economic democracy through four elections? How can we uphold the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders? == https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-lessons.html == More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1826577227686788 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-13 15:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1602685306162987008 ========== More on "independent state legislatures". https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/supreme-court-independent-state-legislature-trump/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-07 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600520340773691392 ========== "Independent state legislatures" theory goes to the Supreme Court. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/moore-v-harper-heads-to-the-high If this theory is upheld, then state legislatures may decide election results without considering the actual vote. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-12-07 15:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1600511180770279426 ========== What is the essential strength of democracy? That mistakes can be rectified. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/global-protests-democracy-autocracy-weakness/ Inability to adapt to change doomed the dinosaurs and dooms the dictators. Eventually. #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2022-12-02 06:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598566586373136384 ========== When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers - so GOP should beware the "independent state legislatures" doctrine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/gop-argument-redistricting-backfire/ In the meantime - for Federal elections - California should abandon fair districting until Texas adopts it. #PS1democracy ===== impress 19 time 2022-12-02 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598564530149199874 ========== Recount for Boebert and Frisch. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-election-officials-order-recount-rep-boebert-projected-defeat-dem-challenger-adam-frisch Due by Dec 13. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-02 00:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598476957494444032 ========== Now is the time to fix the Electoral Count Act. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/dont-let-future-presidents-do-what #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 27 time 2022-12-01 07:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598223965515677696 ========== What Palin doesn't understand about ranked-choice voting - she is NOBODY's second choice. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-donald-trump-4d8a0ed7845288d67adb3970a67e9ff9 Palin never “really understood and recognized the high percentage of voters who just don’t like her." Like Trump, who also hates ranked-choice. #PS1democracy ===== impress 14 time 2022-11-24 18:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1595852194192199680 ========== Heading toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Is it that or oppressive minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Maybe the lesson of 2022, like 2016, is that voters don't always share their true inclinations with pollsters. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/abortion-midterm-voters-politics-democrats-republicans-fault-lines/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-15 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1592393318952230912 ========== Initiative, referendum, and recall were instituted to allow the people to overcome entrenched interests in the legislature. Now they allow such interests to overcome the legislature. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/13/this-failed-california-ballot-prop-spent-50-times-more-for-each-yes-vote-than-the-abortion-measure/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1802751616736016 #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-11-13 19:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591876602694365185 ========== GOP complained when Democrats voted for and funded fringe candidates in GOP primarys. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries It's an old tactic - https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/top-of-the-ticket/story/2008-04-29/opinion-rush-limbaugh-directs-his-operation-chaos-against-clinton-and-obama preventable by repealing sore-loser laws. But the more likely red-state solution is to ban such voting. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-11-12 05:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591305666299596800 ========== Five ways the lame-duck Congress COULD act to avoid future constitutional crises. But they only have about a month. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/10/republicans-house-democrats-lame-duck-trump-ukraine/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-11-11 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590889011677401090 ========== Along with Trump, Putin and Xi and the ayatollahs were losers yesterday. But victory is never permanent or guaranteed. DeSantis is coming next. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/opinion/midterms-election-america-arrow.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-10 05:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590582424354066432 ========== Libertarians strike again! forcing the Georgia Senate runoff, quite plausibly determining Senate control. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/us/elections/georgia-runoff-chase-oliver.html Ranked-choice voting would reduce third parties' negative influence and enhance their positive. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1799879603689884 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2022-11-10 05:23 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590575908519555072 ========== If GOP don't like these shenanigans - they indulge in them too - all they have to do is repeal sore loser laws and institute ranked-choice voting. Then it's not possible to knock viable candidates out in the primary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/09/democrats-cynical-primary-strategy-worked/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 14 time 2022-11-10 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590571966062546944 ========== Campaigning is easy in a gerrymadered district! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/07/partisan-politics-age-gerrymandering/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-09 04:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590193594639740929 ========== Regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html A response to the worst-case scenario - https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/politics/democrats-nightmare-scenario-election-eve-analysis/index.html There's no reason for the majority to subsidize a tyrannical minority that embodies the worst fears of America's founders. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-07 05:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589494755251326977 ========== Independent state legislatures - the latest fake theory for strengthening minority rule by dictating election results - https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/how-the-independent-state-legislature What will the reactionary Supreme Court majority decide? They know what their Federalist Society groomers want. #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-11-03 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1588316302938341376 ========== Vastly different notions of truth lead to converging crises and diverging consensus. But blaming an intractable foe is a pillar of fake populism and cult of personality - and wouldn't be given up easily. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/polycrisis-midterms-biden-administration-progressive/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1794353220909189 #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 21:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587923448411537409 ========== An interesting enhancement to ranked-choice voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/01/alaska-final-four-primary-begich-palin-peltola/ It eliminates candidates based on their least total votes, rather than their least first-place votes, and so rewards candidates with broader appeal. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-02 20:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1587911901388103680 ========== Want to know who's paying for your next Congress? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/top-election-donors-2022/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-25 03:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584749103137067008 ========== Do you believe ANY political advertising? Why?? https://mercurynews.com/2022/10/23/race-for-san-jose-mayor-moneyed-interests-from-49ers-to-realtors-wage-shadow-campaigns/ The worst of it is paid for by unlimited dark money, thanks to the Supreme Court's opinion that money is speech. #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-24 02:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584367518298185731 ========== Minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Or majority? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/minority-rule-majoritarian-democracy.html Majority rule is mob rule. Democracy is majority rule plus enumerated rights of minorities that can't be voted away by the majority. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 22:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583586149993308160 ========== Future Fascists of America are cultivating doubt in the accuracy and fairness of election processes. Their ultimate goal - to make sure the vote matches their predetermined outcome. https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-election-security-besieged-county-5e084e84cf25f96364f5afa445968455 #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 19:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583546073808719872 ========== Jungle primary - another was to reduce the power of party boss kingmakers. https://apnews.com/article/what-is-louisiana-jungle-primary-43362b7289ff8993635e835af66aa2eb But it would be better to use ranked-choice voting so no runoff would be necessary. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 18:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583532093862051840 ========== Partisan judges are bad enough - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/18/judicial-elections-time-bomb-democracy/ Partisan election officials are worse - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-government-and-politics-voting-donald-trump-2b8dfac3c8352dd589b220921052017c There's a lot at stake, so there's a lot of dark money flowing. #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 18:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583528450538672129 ========== This isn't Richard Daley's Chicago any more - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley the dead don't vote very much. Not enough to change any elections. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-government-and-politics-presidential-299b03156144b12c0298184498f07958 #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-21 16:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583500950345375746 ========== Not fake news - many actors propagandize to promote distrust of democratic elections, toward a goal of Soviet-style elections with predetermined outcomes. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-government-and-politics-8eaf001732ac25976f0560a3e49ed500 https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-noncitizens-voting-question-d720a6d02e066700d86812dc717906e5 https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-warns-foreign-efforts-sway-american-voters More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1784365048574673 #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-21 15:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583483899220414464 ========== Ranked-choice voting on ballots - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential Do your part if it's on yours! https://fairvoteaction.org/get-involved/ballot-measures/ Politicians don't like ranked-choice voting, because it transfers power from them to the voters. More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783810081963503 #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-21 12:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583439778501910528 ========== Now the United States is for sale to the highest bidder. Or at least its politicians. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur Thiel is done with democracy and intends to remake the US into even more of a libertarian paradise - for billionaires. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/politics-for-sale #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-21 12:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583439333297512451 ========== What do six years of Political Scrapbook show? The challenge is Minority Rule and the tools that protect minority political and economic power. Responses to that challenge enhance equal political and economic opportunity. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-lessons.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-15 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581147844559314944 ========== Often only the dominant party primary election matters. That winner is sure to win the general election. Can open primaries, where everybody can choose which primary to vote, reduce one-party rule? https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-the-threat-to-democracy-that-no-one-s-talking-about/article_14208ca2-45d6-11ed-afa2-c707a4c10fe7.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1774525489558629 #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-10-09 20:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579209687572316161 ========== "a constitution that subverts majority rule, fuels authoritarian movements and renders popular sovereignty inert is not a constitution that can be said to protect, secure or even enable American democracy" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/constitution-democracy-biden-trump.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 23:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578527286512320512 ========== "many lawmakers plan to shill for dictators after leaving office" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/stop-foreign-dictator-lobbying-racket/ After leaving office, many lawmakers have forgotten how to make an honest living, so what else CAN they do? #PS1democracy ===== impress 10 time 2022-10-07 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578386546872311808 ========== "Money is the mother's milk of politics" - want to do something about it? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-tossups.html#dark "I just send all my fund-raising emails to junk" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/small-dollar-donations-online.html There's not much difference between red and blue fund-raising appeals by email or text. #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-07 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578234205116387328 ========== People will vote for their tribe, no matter how bad the candidates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/arizona-poll-republican-candidates/ And more voters can tell you how much they paid for gas last time, than what their candidate will do if elected. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-07 02:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578212986082074626 ========== Regional federalism - freedom for red states - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Also means freedom for blue states to NOT subsidize red states - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/florida-hurricane-ian-democrats-aid/ Maybe red states can petition the UN for disaster relief. #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-10-07 01:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578199861828079617 ========== Promote minority representation by a combination of 1) ranked-choice voting 2) multi-member districts 3) no sore-loser laws. These make gerrymandering pointless. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Otherwise endless redistricting battles. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-race-and-ethnicity-f274ce05a19da4a3d48648f82df174e2 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-05 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577526190285283328 ========== Moving toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html "as U.S. politics nationalizes, blue and red states are diverging even more dramatically" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/gavin-newsom-ron-desantis-hurricane-ian-migrants-transgender-laws/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-30 18:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575910871141736449 ========== The plot to reject the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders and preserve minority rule forever is now a horror movie - https://nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html Democracy is not just based upon laws, but on common ideals regulated by rule of law. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/opinion/trump-big-lie-elections.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 18% impress 11 time 2022-09-24 04:45 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573534162547445760 ========== A horror movie - the plot to reject the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders and preserve minority rule forever! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html Democracy is not just based upon laws. It's based on common ideals and conventions, regulated by rule of law. #PS1democracy ===== engage 4 engage-rate 67% expands 4 impress 6 time 2022-09-22 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572815649885540353 ========== So much for initiative, referendum, recall as tools of the people. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative If you've got the bucks, can you buy any election? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sports-california-gavin-newsom-native-americans-218eb0e80aa9206cb40e67e9449441c6 Just vote NO on legalized gambling! #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1572795626244669440 ========== The paradox of democracy - free speech can, and will, be used to undermine democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/democracy-crisis-speech-trump.html Putin and Xi, among others, are counting on it, and encouraging it, in order to justify their antidemocratic regimes. #PS1democracy ===== impress 23 time 2022-09-14 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569894080729214978 ========== The goal of minority rule is protecting and enhancing economic inequality - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html and that requires protecting and enhancing political inequality - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/democracy-inequality-united-states.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-14 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569892507902967811 ========== Ranked-choice voting https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential wins in Alaska! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/13/democrats-alaska-special-election-lessons/ May it prosper elsewhere! #PS1democracy ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-14 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569883657862795264 ========== Are candidate debates good for anything? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-presidential-election-2020-herschel-walker-94c6fe26f5f27cab6385e37946124d77 In most cases, the candidates are terrified the voters might find out what they really think, when they respond to an unexpected hostile question. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-11 21:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569082474558550016 ========== "protecting the integrity of the lawmaking process against well-funded interest groups trying to bend state policies in their favor" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-abortion-arkansas-recreational-marijuana-0c003046cc981ebcfb38fa77c1455737 Meaning, protecting minority rule from democracy. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-03 15:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1566079047800463360 ========== Biden to address nation on democracy. GOP leaders have prerecorded responses ready - "Joe Biden epitomizes the Democrat Party: divisiveness, disgust, and hostility towards half the country" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1743624389315406 #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-09-01 17:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565398410483486720 ========== How to avoid campaign finance laws. Non-profits for profit! https://search-portals.com/why-are-california-lawmakers-luring-tech-lobbyists-to-wine-country/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565346343232491529 ========== consociated representation? https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/zocalos-connecting-california/california-florida-voting-consociated-representation-joe-mathews #PS1democracy ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565189759202234368 ========== Biden to address the struggle for democracy. https://apnews.com/article/biden-donald-trump-democracy-government-and-politics-d5bf5e4e0e926fe0253415f17e230e3d #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-30 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564442660122726400 ========== Ignore the Constitution? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/opinion/liberals-constitution.html There's been entirely too much of that lately! A better approach is regional federalism. #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-08-19 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560655444363751426 ========== "democracy contains the seeds of its own instability, via demagogues who mobilize popular uprisings for the express goal of turning them against the system itself" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/liz-cheney-loses-primary-trump-reveals-danger/ Exactly what America's founders feared! A republic - if you can keep it! #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 time 2022-08-17 17:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559959694843584513 ========== What kind of person wants to endlessly investigate a fair election? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-wisconsin-donald-trump-c81e1806bc41ab4e8fec91b8f72ee904 Even most of the Republicans gave up on him. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 likes 1 time 2022-08-14 22:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558949311269851136 ========== Hand counting of ballots? That doesn't counter fraud, it promotes it. That's the whole point - make it easier to insure elections produce the desired result. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-nevada-voting-machines-1fd9ab0e4fabcd036885d998033f614d And it makes ranked-choice voting just about impossible to administer. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-08-14 22:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558948613593522176 ========== Fringe right wants to rewrite the Constitution on Trumpist Dixiecrat lines. And they're getting a lot of money from unknown sources to primary out GOP legislators that aren't on board. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-presidential-south-dakota-constitutions-3de00d1fb9748dcffc2e3875375a36f1 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% impress 6 time 2022-08-12 17:32 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558144366325014529 ========== The sad history of Congress trying to rein in the White House. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/opinions/trump-fbi-search-presidential-record-keepers-hemmer/index.html Mostly it's a history of the White House ignoring the law and Congress abdicating its responsibility to do anything about it. #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-12 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558096492505681921 ========== The first attempt to split California - to preserve minority rule and slavery. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-08-07/secession-san-bernardino-slavery-history-california It failed then for the same reason as now - in a closely divided Senate, it is politically impossible to add one new free state or one new slave state. #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 33% impress 6 likes 1 replies 1 time 2022-08-12 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1558086269636210688 ========== Ranked-choice voting is not hard to understand. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used But Trump and Palin, and political kingmakers, are opposed, because it tends to weed out fringe candidates in favor of centrists with appeal beyond their bases. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-voting-government-and-politics-d91f31e3824361a09e27683d6dd3908d #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 likes 1 time 2022-08-12 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557928066017476608 ========== "A republic if you can keep it!" And now those that don't want to keep it see their dreams within grasp - minority rule permanently and unassailably enshrined. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/republican-party-anti-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 33% impress 3 likes 1 time 2022-08-04 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555027197110337537 ========== The GOP megadonors want to call a constitutional convention rigged to preserve their control forever. https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7 Their apologists pretend that it couldn't possible run out of control - but running wild is the intent. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722790131398832 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-03 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554706679895191552 ========== Electoral Count Act repair isn't done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/01/electoral-count-reform-act-suggested-changes/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-08-03 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554693862873935873 ========== How much has the decline of public education contributed to political partisanship? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/02/books/review/will-bunch-after-the-ivory-tower-falls.html Probably it's part of the problem, but the takeover of the Republican Party by Dixiecrats played a larger part. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1722561168088395 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-02 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554605593490366465 ========== Expand the House. Multimember districts combined with ranked-choice or approval voting. No sore-loser laws. These are the elements to defeat minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html So expect fierce opposition from the minority rulers. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/senate-house-power.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 8 engage-rate 53% impress 15 likes 2 retweets 1 time 2022-08-01 03:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553940628668461057 ========== The historical argument against centrist third parties - they don't accomplish anything. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/opinion/why-andrew-yangs-new-third-party-is-bound-to-fail.html Put that energy into a coalition of candidates in existing parties pursuing electoral reforms for democracy. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1720733374937841 #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-31 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553617085317623809 ========== The Roe v Wade repeal rejected the Constitutional right of privacy - https://www.ask.com/news/what-is-the-constitutional-right-to-privacy But the delusional branch of the GOP thinks the patriarchal branch will rest with Roe v Wade. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/opinions/republicans-gays-respect-for-marriage-act-senate-smith/index.html Unlikely! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1720701778274334 #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-07-31 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553599468292820992 ========== Democrats debate sabotaging GOP primaries. Just because GOP does it, should Democrats? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/democrats-propping-up-republican-candidates/index.html Better to repeal sore-loser laws and use ranked-choice voting. Otherwise, primaries in one-party states are simply a way of purging moderates. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-31 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553592718323884032 ========== Third parties??? Only if they get ranked-choice voting and get rid of sore-loser laws first! Otherwise they just split the moderate vote. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/politics/andrew-yang-forward-party-whitman-jolly/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1719016898442822 #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-28 22:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552784472516411392 ========== What does the War of 1812 tell us about 2022? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/trump-democracy-states.html There is nothing new under the sun! Bad ideas, like "independent [gerrymandered] state legislatures", never die, they just hide until their moment returns. #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 12% impress 17 likes 1 time 2022-07-09 05:01 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545634145870569474 ========== Why nobody has confidence in Congress. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/08/republicans-broke-americans-confidence-institutions-poll/ Total paralysis is an acceptable outcome for GOP megadonors. They'd welcome more tax cuts and deregulation, but they'll settle for no change in minority rule. #PS1democracy ===== engage 5 engage-rate 56% expands 1 impress 9 likes 3 media-engage 1 time 2022-07-09 04:31 +0000 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545626560102744064 ========== Fusion parties - reducing extremism by reducing the influence of party primaries and caucuses. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/opinion/moderate-party-new-jersey.html But better to repeal sore-loser laws and allow anybody to run in the general election with the winner selected by ranked-choice voting. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-07-08 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1545266842272272384 ========== Independent State Legislatures - the final frontier. The six reactionary Supreme Court justices know they were nominated and confirmed in order to protect and expand minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/independent-state-legislature-theory-what-matters/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702387023439143 #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-06 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544677339258167296 ========== "institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/03/dont-venerate-vilify-founders-constitution-july-fourth/ Of course, minority rule is enhanced when institutions retreat rather than advance. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 06:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543843899386384384 ========== "India's tragedy is not that it's the worst place in the world -- it's that we are on our way there" India is a model that the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP intends to follow. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/opinions/bjp-hindu-muslim-democracy-modi-arundhati-roy/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-04 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543832244988522496 ========== Wisconsin leads the way toward insuring that even if Democrats win an election, they can't change anything. So much for democracy and the will of the people. https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-gun-politics-madison-environmental-policy-climate-and-environment-0eb6040fb5bf3c2a4677b4cf603c98e6 It's a model for the GOP in Congress. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-07-04 04:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1543819552819032064 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics. Big corporations donate to both sides in order to retain access. https://nytimes.com/2022/06/15/opinion/jan6-companies-donate.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1687662298244949 #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-07-01 12:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1542850687502929920 ========== It will take decades to obtain majority rule. One approach is regional federalism. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html It has taken decades of increasing fortification of Dixiecrat GOP minority rule to get to this week. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/politics/reshaping-politics-roe-v-wade/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-25 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540728415019360257 ========== Democrats catch up with Republicans in institutionalizing Congressional inaction. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/21/politics/house-democrats-vote-unity/index.html Filibuster has to go, along with representation decided by primary rather than general election. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-25 13:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540693181481725952 ========== Everybody is afraid the country is becoming less democratic. What they don't agree on is what that means. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/16/destroy-democracy-in-order-to-save-it/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-22 07:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539504417942122496 ========== There aren't 10 Republican Senate votes to do almost anything supported by Democrats. Why would electoral count reform be any different, especially in an election year? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/19/fix-electoral-count-law-now-before-trump-tries-exploit-it-again/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02GNtJ5FeF3WZ6jbrDLqsG6DBvrRbGckoipLjJhVntzTtT6D7Evzxxkkm6Kzg2nv1Wl #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 40% impress 5 likes 2 time 2022-06-21 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539235193227161600 ========== Regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html It's already happening in red states. Time for blue states to catch up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/20/gop-making-national-policy-one-state-time/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-06-21 13:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539231973368950791 ========== "The conditions that helped us meet past challenges no longer hold" It's not 1973 or 2000 any more. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/opinion/its-not-the-future-we-cant-see.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-20 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538886375176429568 ========== It would be easier with ranked-choice voting. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv#where_is_ranked_choice_voting_used As it is, running as an independent is a very long shot. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-oregon-government-and-politics-campaign-2016-9126bc3a99e2084e6654a2bd112c467a #PS1democracy ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-05 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533247465167630337 ========== Who's for defending the minority rule of wealthy old white men? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Majority rule and minority rights - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/majority-rule-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-04 05:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532959003042492416 ========== Instead of reparations, consider a Universal Basic Income. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-ubi.html Reparations - for whom? What about Native Americans, Latinos, poor ignorant white victims of lousy schools? https://apnews.com/article/california-race-and-ethnicity-san-francisco-voter-registration-0cb66f61c4b9f0136c43a17408720d98 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0QCKJWJrEv17Bsqk2gd9yXugetiS4cBr5HgUnMT4wPiFZ7TZkzQJEZFNKvncLV2Jml #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-03 03:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532569846231076865 ========== Crossover voting - what voters do because there's no ranked-choice voting. Both parties do it. If your party's primary doesn't matter, why not vote in the other party's? For the one most likely to lose, or the one least intolerable. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-campaign-2016-congress-df4fa72d2d4a1e4d9344d61c0a3d4b9e #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 15 time 2022-05-31 16:46 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531678391723761664 ========== Political paralysis protected minority rule by protecting slavery. From 1820 to 1860 the biggest political issue was protecting the South's parity in the Senate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/29/our-gun-debate-paralysis-stretches-back-to-civil-war/ Paralysis still protects minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0zZWPTngMYvcdxVifnXkreKA1HrjGdMRFQidC6YDcjQwzZWVpATKosnkf92ze2WVml #PS1democracy ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-29 20:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531013921829552133 ========== Minority rule today? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Minority rule then - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-senate-gun-control.html Then as now, constitutional pillars include equal representation in the Senate and thus control of the judiciary. #PS1democracy ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-28 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530356628079267840 ========== What's pushing America toward regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html all the pillars of minority rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Why should blue states continue to subsidize red states' fantasies? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02omd2qNUW7YvimZTu8Pa27E9Thdt3EeB3e5f5x7DAayE9CZGevXCuQLgo4rZ6G3sul #PS1democracy ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-28 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530351989971857409 ========== Should Democrats be as obnoxious as Republicans? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/25/opinion-when-democrats-play-defense-while-republicans-play-offense/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-25 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529606506340986880 ========== The problem with primaries - and caucuses. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/21/opinions/pennsylvania-closed-primaries-problem-thornburgh/index.html Better to leave party primaries and caucuses alone, and allow all candidates to run in the general election, using ranked-choice voting. #PS1democracy ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-23 05:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528609553226510336 ========== Concentrations of power are inherently bad! https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-wells-fargo-exec-says-181447962.html https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-congress-climate-and-environment-199c935b6c81b6520c39fbf2791b899b https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/business/economy/baby-formula-shortage-market.html Every GOP knows that concentration of political power is BAD - but not concentration of economic power. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02UChzgbnscz1RFfQ6dG7vaiaR8b7cjWHMdg8EmZtJW28HpFcRzte1zmqb7cmijAWXl #PS1democracy ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-23 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528568488662401024 ========== California's top-2 method is a small improvement over partisan primaries and caucuses, but it still allows kingmakers to discourage candidates that might "split the vote". https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/nicholas-goldberg-a-decade-ago-california-adopted-a-strange-top-two-primary-system-hows-it/article_15ee9cc8-b9a4-52fb-9c03-7052e932fc84.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02mZBksSsS7iHAt9LJa5wibYRMevT3twfntMNg1ELU9ZnLgky2AGfpsf4FYx3RbM7Dl #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2022-05-19 16:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527323622364176397 ========== It's OK to ignore campaign finance laws - if you're a Trumpist! https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-brad-parscale-0a8013b0b787bacd0ac0a8bf4dcf8b42 https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-elections-campaigns-government-and-politics-ted-cruz-a4905abe71982ec1fef0e5c7ef183b95 #PS1democracy ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-19 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527138470539382784 ========== Minority rule is a problem for America - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html And for EU and NATO too - https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/16/opinions/putin-allies-orban-erdogan-europe-andelman/index.html One that Putin exploits. #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2022-05-17 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526415102160687105 ========== Alito is no champion of democracy. The reactionaries on the Supreme Court strike blows against democracy at every opportunity. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/opinion/overturning-roe-democracy-equality.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 42 time 2022-05-17 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526396293169328128 ========== Ordinary people don't get elected to Congress because ordinary people can't afford to run. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/opinions/inflation-katie-porter-democrats-hemmer/index.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 17% impress 12 likes 1 time 2022-05-13 22:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525245375514152960 ========== Money is the mother's milk of politics - you can buy any candidate you want! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/trailer-empire-strikes-back-wave-pac-money-buries-left-wing-democrats Democrats have their own internal divisions about how to best survive the next two years. #PS1democracy ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-13 14:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525115510114750464 ========== Want to do something about campaign finance? https://americanpromise.net/ Senate campaigns cost tens of millions of dollars. Georgia alone will be over $80 million. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/battle-senate-control-midterms/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid029jtydPJM3XHSXhVToGanSZEKbE5JvzxNLttPtgZphT7sCoW45k6KK8SVRBvq1EnLl #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-13 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524910861801861120 ========== Direct democracy - a good idea in 1911 that has gone bad under unlimited dark money - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative Ballot initiatives that are too long and difficult to understand, with paid circulators - how does that help? https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/zocalos-connecting-california/california-politics-direct-democracy-ballot-voters #PS1democracy ===== impress 21 time 2022-05-09 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523456702795771906 ========== Greens elected Bush in 2000 and Trump in 2016. Libertarians elected Biden in 2020. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-election.html That's a good reason to avoid them https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration Now we pay the price https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/05/05/pitts-america-is-paying-a-steep-price-for-staying-home-on-election-day/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid025nmdb57GmbxBmwnkyrKsRsULk3vpxj14Rq5voBcrNy3ytiyNADhMDefqgftGCUxzl #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 12% impress 17 time 2022-05-06 03:02 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522411393617596416 ========== How GOP gerrymanders Democrats into retirement. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/politics/jr-majewski-marcy-kaptur-ohio-what-matters/index.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 13 time 2022-05-05 14:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522226088541245441 ========== Ways to improve the 2024 primary election process - rotating early primaries or (better) ranked-choice-voting. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2671091 #PS1democracy ===== impress 19 time 2022-05-04 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521691342014873600 ========== The Constitution has a rural bias. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Here's one way to deal with that. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/opinion/democrats-rural-america.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-03 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521357644211974145 ========== By November 2022, either painful Putin and covid inflation will still be running rampant, or America will be in a painful recession to kill inflation. Either way, GOP candidates will blame Biden. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/meadows-texts-trump-lies-2022-election-analysis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02BTVPDh2J8CZHF1gYZZFmeMU4VcBFp8j6g5AD6cN72EfKgw2ujQjFsNGx91gTbYw1l #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2022-05-01 05:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520634118685429760 ========== Putin gave Biden an opportunity to lead the democratic world. "the country needs to come together on at least two crucial points: that democracy must survive and that truth must be respected" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/opinions/putin-created-unexpected-opportunity-future-of-democracy-ghitis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0o4SATFXoecBpE3v159PnZvS6hbao1oCpYW2CYXZkFPKnGtpftRi7fhyg1Dgi4UKYl #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2022-04-29 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519906648168407041 ========== Why regional federalism may be the only way out - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html The GOP has been laying the groundwork for permanent minority rule for years - https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/opinions/gop-blueprint-to-steal-the-2024-election-luttig/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 37 time 2022-04-28 23:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519816662492401664 ========== Prefer billionaires running for office with their own money, or billionaires funding candidates with dark money? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-business-pennsylvania-campaigns-mehmet-oz-fcc1e26d6fc733874fdfa32b1627567d Since it takes tens of millions of dollars for a Senate campaign, pick one or the other. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1652169711794208 #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2022-04-28 15:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519696120481411072 ========== Treating Federal territories as colonies - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories They have no rights, only privileges subject to revocation. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/puerto-rico-supreme-court-federal-disability-benefits/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 486 time 2022-04-21 18:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517202201260609536 ========== Swing voters are mostly influenced by economics, especially inflation, especially of gas prices. Most swing voters don't think through to root causes. So GOP gets away with voter suppression. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/democrats-democracy-election.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1647274428950403 #PS1democracy ===== impress 508 time 2022-04-21 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517149253642035201 ========== Did the decline start with Gingrich? Or Thurmond? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html “We can never make a binary choice between turning out our base and appealing to swing voters. We will not succeed if we don’t figure out how to do both.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/politics/david-price-republicans-democrats-midterms.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 time 2022-04-20 17:53 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516837569492783107 ========== “when the White House is in favor of something, when Democrats are in favor of something, Republicans are in favor of something, the House is in favor of it, and the Senate is in favor of it, we still can’t seem to get it done." https://apnews.com/article/climate-2022-midterm-elections-biden-technology-business-7aa66d84e150a4c1d54831677075cee9 #PS1democracy ===== impress 9 time 2022-04-19 01:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516234029950902273 ========== Budding democracies around the world are inspired by America's presidential debates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/17/gop-and-trump-withdraws-debate-commission/ But Trumpism's response to budding democracy is to nip it in the bud. #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2022-04-18 05:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515926548427157508 ========== How to make sure the state legislature is mostly rich retired white men? Don't pay a living wage. https://apnews.com/article/business-connecticut-oregon-legislature-26634f73a7aca275510baf41203e37f7 Low wages are not for saving taxpayers money on salaries. It's to save major donors from new tax laws. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 41 likes 1 time 2022-04-16 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515321356589535233 ========== Is more local government power what democracy in France needs? https://xklsv.com/mathews-france-shows-the-perils-of-powerless-local-democracy/2022-04-15 #PS1democracy ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-16 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1515128622457131014 ========== Require everybody to vote, to change politicians' behavior. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2662835 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 45 time 2022-04-15 02:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1514790595226570757 ========== San Jose city council rejects ranked-choice voting. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/11/san-jose-wont-seek-switch-to-controversial-ranked-choice-voting/ Same old excuses - "too confusing," "allows gaming." Meaning that it's confusing for traditional politicians, because they can't game the system the way they are used to. #PS1democracy ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-12 12:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513855641277763586 ========== What is the decadence that threatens western civilization? https://usexpose.com/paul-krugman-putin-and-the-myth-of-western-decadence/ It's not what the Putinists and Trumpists say it is. #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2022-03-31 17:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509582506881736705 ========== Rand Paul single-handedly stops sanctions on Russia. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/senate-bill-punishing-russia-languishes/index.html As is so often the case, the Senate is the problem, not the solution. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 time 2022-03-30 03:28 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509009569174806536 ========== Control of Congress may hinge on campaigns to replace non-partisan state Supreme Court justices. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-biden-us-supreme-court-legislature-redistricting-2dc22ffc8559f43401c9f116b4e7f8ad #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 time 2022-03-22 03:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506106254384517123 ========== Not a good time for constitutional conventions. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-alaska-legislature-constitutions-election-2020-87253695ffc43434e67560a8ba33f59b Why give Putin another lever to increase American partisanship? #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 27 time 2022-03-22 03:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506103439041830918 ========== Trumpists driving out election competence in favor of election loyalty - no more lost GOP elections! https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2649599 #PS1democracy ===== impress 34 time 2022-03-17 20:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504551167618998272 ========== The blessings of democracy and the rule of law - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#rule-of-law or Putinism/Trumpism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#trump Can American voters learn the same lessons NATO countries have learned? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/14/putin-could-help-bolster-american-democracy-biden-ukraine-russia-nato/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 65 time 2022-03-14 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503513967116754948 ========== Insuring the success of minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html for all time https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/republicans-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 59 time 2022-03-14 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503222244138360835 ========== Some GOP want to count ballots by hand "to reduce fraud". https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-new-hampshire-nevada-donald-trump-elections-3f6785364fd52655cbd034f0708c6f0f Of course, their real goal is to make it EASIER for them to commit fraud. #PS1democracy ===== impress 61 time 2022-03-14 00:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503160033856528386 ========== Congressional apportionment and redistricting should be based on voter turnout - something we know very accurately. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Failing that, what other new census technology? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/us/census-data-counting-changes.html The tech giants would love to sell their data! #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 69 time 2022-03-14 00:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503159085662760962 ========== A cushy job - for political appointees? https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-crime-police-florida-voting-3d66da7e765a0dd7f4db590654185c26 There's very little to investigate. Loudly announce charges one day, drop them a week later, and you're done for the year. #PS1democracy ===== impress 77 time 2022-03-11 03:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502126086494191616 ========== Making it harder to vote. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elections-austin-texas-voting-f28a41bf6482c25299c99a8ea52734be #PS1democracy ===== impress 78 time 2022-03-10 00:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501713869172969472 ========== Whether talking about climate, https://bdnews24.com/environment/2022/03/01/time-is-running-out-to-avert-a-harrowing-future-climate-panel-warns https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/02/california-faces-a-big-short-in-vital-commodities/ or Ukraine, https://bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-27/ukraine-shows-that-u-s-cannot-afford-culture-wars culture wars are a luxury distraction the world can't afford. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1615194752158371 #PS1democracy ===== impress 53 time 2022-03-06 23:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500614475065356291 ========== “This is intended to reverse 115 years of progressivism.” Life was so much better in 1907 - for wealthy old white men. Pretending to be grass roots, wealthy old white men are trying to get back to 1907. https://defendourconstitution.org/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2022-03-04 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499614806097096707 ========== Citizens assembly - a method for approaching contentious problems. https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/joe-mathews-a-citizens-assembly-for-homelessness/article_afa5cff6-9024-11ec-a8aa-1b0f717d20e0.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 11 time 2022-03-03 06:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499269093051957250 ========== “They portray themselves as the unique saviors of the traditional nation, and demand unconditional personal loyalty from all who serve them" How Potemkin democracy works - https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-antonio-guterres-democracy-b6acfe4d9e58ccc84428e432d12e4a60 Sound like Trump? And Putin, Duterte, Erdogan, Orban, ... #PS1democracy ===== impress 117 time 2022-03-01 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1498503300299120640 ========== Washington, Churchill, Nagy, Walesa, and now - Zelenskyy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/28/politics/zelensky-us-response-to-russia/index.html They make Putin and Trump look very small indeed. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 56 likes 1 time 2022-02-28 05:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1498174056964653056 ========== Senate dysfunction writ large - GOP won't even show up to vote up or down, on any nominees. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-boycotts-jerome-powell-ca58529a85f5042d9244cf510c87e7dc #PS1democracy ===== impress 15 time 2022-02-18 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494536461462298627 ========== The case for large legislative bodies - they are harder to buy! https://gvwire.com/2022/02/10/los-angeles-is-the-capital-of-americas-democracy-crisis/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2022-02-17 05:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494180446434779140 ========== Some countries don't have equal rights for women. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/middleeast/iran-teenage-wife-beheaded-intl/index.html But the US ERA has become a complicated legal morass. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/senate-republicans-archivist-era/index.html The Supreme Court will have to decide. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1598176143860232 #PS1democracy ===== impress 26 time 2022-02-10 06:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491663879222398981 ========== We need to fix the Senate confirmation dysfunction. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#confirmation Ron Johnson - and Cruz and Hawley - are taking it down to new levels. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/opinion/deborah-lipstadt-ron-johnson.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2022-02-09 05:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491287311258370050 ========== If it weren't for colored people in cities, Trump would have won! Ask any of these Trumpist candidates! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/republicans-2020-election-lie-johnson-mandel/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1597405913937255 #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2022-02-09 04:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491271515639214080 ========== Trump nominees remember what they are there for - to protect minority rule. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-alabama-elections-house-elections-john-roberts-ec7de9d81ce904d6a660ab98be12b845 #PS1democracy ===== impress 38 time 2022-02-08 00:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490838816784928772 ========== Third parties - the Impossible Dream! Without ranked-choice voting, the Common Sense Party is not likely to do much good. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/07/moderate-common-sense-party-hopes-to-get-on-2022-ballot-in-california/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1596344727376707 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 replies 1 time 2022-02-07 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490682171920506880 ========== From now on, all elections will be one-party affairs (primaries) and the minority party's vote won't matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/us/politics/redistricting-competition-midterms.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-02-07 01:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490496734094495747 ========== Manchin and Murkowski are hopeful for bipartisan revision of Electoral Count Act. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/06/politics/manchin-murkowski-electoral-count-act-cnntv/index.html But can they find 10 more GOP votes against Trumpist headwinds? #PS1democracy ===== impress 33 time 2022-02-07 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490478590827241473 ========== Trumpist election rigging derailed in Arizona. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/politics/arizona-bill-reject-election-results-effectively-blocked/index.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 9 engage-rate 36% expands 5 impress 25 time 2022-02-04 05:03 +0000 urlclicks 4 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489464596524003328 ========== Why do real estate developers contribute to 3 out of 4 mayoral candidates? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/03/san-joses-mayoral-race-is-becoming-a-big-money-affair-where-is-it-all-coming-from/ It's not about who wins, but preserving access so the winner will return your phone calls. #PS1democracy ===== impress 34 time 2022-02-03 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489289739874099204 ========== Time to change how redistricting is done. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting Otherwise you get pretty strange boundaries. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-election-2020-kansas-city-kansas-donald-trump-85844d07388c25e71440059be29b7a6e #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 36 time 2022-02-03 05:50 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489114103058599937 ========== Will ranked choice voting https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential reduce fringe candidates? https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2626383 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 49 time 2022-02-03 05:47 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489113248070713347 ========== Ruthless Democratic gerrymandering now might make it possible to end gerrymandering later. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/31/democrats-gerrymandering-ruthlessly/ California should gerrymander for Democrats until Texas gives up gerrymandering for Republicans. #PS1democracy ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3% impress 95 time 2022-02-01 00:10 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1488303808190902274 ========== Trump might have improved the chances of Electoral Count Act reform. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/politics/trump-electoral-count-act-2024/index.html By making a hypothetical danger concrete, he motivates Congress to act. #PS1democracy ===== impress 72 time 2022-01-31 23:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1488296538946162688 ========== Imagining Trumpist tactics in 2024 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/26/trump-2024-electoral-count-act-reform/ But will any GOP senators support fixing the broken parts? #PS1democracy ===== impress 49 time 2022-01-27 05:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486568805107044357 ========== Different approaches to redistricting and House control - GOP focuses on protecting incumbents, Democrats on expanding majority. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-new-york-legislature-state-legislature-redistricting-1511d08eb2ec109644439713eb9d44fb Who's right? Depends on how the economy performs. #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2022-01-25 05:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485852216023916545 ========== How come whenever they actually find voting fraud - it's usually done by Republicans? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/monte-sereno-councilwoman-convicted-of-illegal-voting-in-oregon/ar-AASUJaP It's certainly in the GOP aristocratic tradition to think that you should be able to vote wherever you own property. #PS1democracy ===== impress 49 time 2022-01-24 20:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485707249137819872 ========== Texas thinks up novel methods of voter suppression - like not having enough voter registration cards. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/league-of-women-voters-threatens-to-sue-texas-secretary-of-state-for-failing-to-provide-voter-registration-cards/ar-AAT1sGE #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2022-01-24 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485475850472460295 ========== Moving the filibuster from 67 to 60 - one of Mondale's greatest feats. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/23/politics/filibuster-60-vote-senate-rule/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 55 time 2022-01-23 07:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485158197014851586 ========== Make Election Day a state holiday! https://news.yahoo.com/granderson-why-arent-democrats-making-110027269.html Don't hold your breath waiting for McConnell to make it a Federal holiday. #PS1democracy ===== impress 47 time 2022-01-21 22:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484658719778435073 ========== Voter rights have to be preserved at the state level, by regional federalism if necessary - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html The Senate has done its constitutional job of protecting minority rule - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/whats-next-voting-rights/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2022-01-21 04:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484375926079066115 ========== Sometimes it's hard to stay motivated https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/pitts-sometimes-you-can-t-help-but-grow-weary/ar-AASYnyc But our predecessors endured worse and persisted to success, even if it was fleeting. Can't we do at least as well? #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 likes 1 time 2022-01-20 22:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484288493291335681 ========== Georgia leads the way in voter suppression - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html That jeopardizes DeSantis' presidential hopes, so Florida is catching up - https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-desantis-wants-even-more-voter-suppression-measures-florida-n1283329 #PS1democracy ===== impress 33 time 2022-01-20 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484177809744404484 ========== Don't waste taxpayer dollars on voter suppression cops - https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/david-perdue-election-police-force-georgia/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/desantis-election-crime-security-voter-fraud/index.html The KKK will do it for free, same as they always have. But it's really about impressing the Trumpist base with candidates' voter-suppression credentials. #PS1democracy ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-20 14:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484176333936611338 ========== Manchin and Murkowski think there are 10 GOP votes for some kind of election reform. They didn't say who the other 9 are, or what kind of reform. They've had a year to draft a bill and find support. Trumpists will oppose it. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-college-football-sports-kyrsten-sinema-27c888b4f9bf876520913d7036a942b0 #PS1democracy ===== impress 26 time 2022-01-20 04:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484022672983932930 ========== “If NASA functioned like the United States Senate, they would never get the rocket off the launchpad” https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-college-football-sports-kyrsten-sinema-27c888b4f9bf876520913d7036a942b0 That's the whole point. A dysfunctional Congress that can't change the status quo is a pillar of minority rule. #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-19 20:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1483893455294124036 ========== Don't let the perfect prevent the better. Can ANY parts of voting rights or BBB pass? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/time-to-start-over-on-voting-rights-and-election-security/ar-AASPzZv It's doubtful - most GOP senators are opposed to giving Biden any wins. Even if there aren't 10 GOP votes for anything, get them on the record. #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2022-01-19 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1483878807794638848 ========== All about the filibuster - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster What Manchin and Sinema ignore - https://news.yahoo.com/calmes-filibuster-terrible-history-time-110010923.html Even Strom Thurmond, the segregation-forever filibuster king and founder of the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP, got a toilet break. Nowadays nobody needs one. #PS1democracy ===== impress 37 time 2022-01-19 18:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1483876200845963264 ========== Voting rights have to be won state by state, block by block. Biden can lead the way. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/opinion/biden-voting-rights.html It's a waste of time to try to change the Senate. Senators have their orders from their donors. And Biden doesn't have enough of their votes. #PS1democracy ===== impress 37 time 2022-01-17 06:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482959848018874371 ========== Trumpists tried hard to interfere with the census, intending to increase GOP representation in Congress. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/politics/census-bureau-commerce-department-trump-political-interference/index.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 29 time 2022-01-17 01:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482886869280985089 ========== The enduring legacy of white moderates. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581910528820127 If filibuster had stood in the way of ending slavery or segregation, Manchin and Sinema would have stood in the door to protect it. #PS1democracy ===== impress 31 time 2022-01-17 01:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482885600139100162 ========== Alaska hopes to reduce partisanship with ranked-choice voting. https://apnews.com/article/elections-alaska-voting-legislature-election-2020-900d52ccb7d2bbff8de23b3ae92af12f Traditional politicians sued because it "would dilute the power of political parties". That's the whole idea! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581904708820709 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 67 time 2022-01-17 01:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482881802452684801 ========== Ohio gerrymander violates state law. https://apnews.com/article/ohio-redistricting-gerrymandered-supreme-court-9a8db5c06897ad9c4e020ffc871f17ac #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-15 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482193065573904384 ========== Texas voting law working as intended to restore confidence in elections - https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-austin-texas-voting-legislature-f6bca0efd177745538e0c08aca796fb0 namely confidence that only Trumpists can win elections. #PS1democracy ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-15 02:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482184863834771458 ========== Sounds very much like it's all about protecting unlimited dark money political contributions, a pillar of minority rule. Losing that threatens all GOP as well as Manchin and Sinema and perhaps others. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-voting-elections-wv-state-wire-28fce7f5190404f5091158c912bf8d5d More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1579761645701682 #PS1democracy ===== impress 26 time 2022-01-13 19:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1481712453205770241 ========== Plan B - get everybody to vote on the record. For one-person-one-vote democracy, or one-dollar-one-vote democracy. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-elections-voting-filibusters-congress-bb0582d4b71b9e86a84076b1787c5fe4 #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-12 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1481414960043360256 ========== Manchin didn't budge. That's how he wants to be remembered. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-georgia-voting-martin-luther-king-jr-dc4544c23622f35fc95d63afe512554d #PS1democracy ===== impress 26 time 2022-01-12 06:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1481155084071305219 ========== Biden to speak forcefully for voting rights. But will he change any minds in the Senate? Most senators really, REALLY, don't want anybody to know who is paying for their campaigns. https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-georgia-voting-martin-luther-king-jr-dc4544c23622f35fc95d63afe512554d #PS1democracy ===== impress 22 time 2022-01-11 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480906770910351361 ========== Voting rights appear to be the issue that this Congress will be remembered for. Bipartisanship will be achieved if failure to act soils the historical legacy of both parties. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-voting-rights-joe-biden-senate-elections-election-2020-5b63509f7e1407bfde54ddce7c072174 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1578011039210076 #PS1democracy ===== impress 24 time 2022-01-11 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480759073498824709 ========== What kind of nation do we want to be? https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article257104857.html There's always been a minority that favored blut-und-boden and hereditary aristocracies. They used to hide behind facades, but now they are more obvious. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1577300759281104 #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-01-10 04:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480395503904845824 ========== Election reform proposals. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/voting-rights-electoral-count-john-lewis-act/index.html The most important is regulating dark money in politics, and that is the one the GOP will fight hardest. Their major donors, whoever they are, really don't want publicity, and neither do the candidates. #PS1democracy ===== impress 32 time 2022-01-07 19:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1479535939118518272 ========== GOP is subverting election law from the bottom up. Democrats need to get over Trumpism fatigue and respond from the bottom up. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/opinion/democrats-fail-defending-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2022-01-07 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1479523683018280961 ========== Election integrity should be viewed as cult of personality vs rule of law, not as GOP vs Democrats. Democrats need to act in a way that the remaining traditional conservatives can support. But they do need to act. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/opinion/trump-democracy-voting-jan-6.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-07 18:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1479522019217530884 ========== Ordinary Democrats and Republicans are much less rabid than their party's leaders and committed base. They agree that the political leadership is not looking out for people like them. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/opinion/voter-focus-groups-jan-6.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1575728672771646 #PS1democracy ===== impress 29 time 2022-01-07 18:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1479513305429409796 ========== Regional federalism https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html is not so different from post-Reconstruction America - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/04/jan-6-civil-war-democracy/ Leaving the states to govern themselves may be the least violent way out. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 time 2022-01-06 06:32 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478977662987030529 ========== If the GOP actually has the votes to change the Electoral act - probably against Trump's wishes - let them draft, move, and pass it. But that's no reason for Democrats to let up on all other GOP voter suppression activities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/electoral-college-act-senate/2022/01/05/537bc010-6e68-11ec-b9fc-b394d592a7a6_story.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 3 engage-rate 10% expands 2 impress 31 retweets 1 time 2022-01-06 05:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478963895884988418 ========== Autocratic birds of a feather - Trump endorses Orban. He already endorsed Bolsonaro. Putin and Xi next? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/us/politics/trump-endorses-viktor-orban-hungary.html The EU already regrets years coddling Orban. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/world/europe/hungary-european-union.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 51 time 2022-01-04 02:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478195882734456834 ========== "absurd and dangerous to the institution" The institution of minority rule, that is. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://apnews.com/article/elections-voting-voting-rights-filibusters-870377874673cd1d251300814ff107ce It's time to take a stand for democracy. Otherwise, the Trumpist Dixiecrat personality cult will shut it down for good. #PS1democracy ===== impress 20 time 2022-01-04 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478162430551224321 ========== Biden finally confronts threat to American democracy and rule of law from Trumpist Dixiecrat personality cult. https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-capitol-siege-voting-rights-donald-trump-b0e831f72f2da099bfbc37c6987a7989 #PS1democracy ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-03 13:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477991956949000194 ========== Who's going to run the Democratic House in majority or minority? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-pelosi-jeffries/2022/01/01/317f7792-5cfa-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html The most important thing to remember - the Democratic Party is the rule-of-law alternative to the Trumpist Dixiecrat cult of personality. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1572756889735491 #PS1democracy ===== impress 25 time 2022-01-03 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477847259022651393