The solution, as I've been saying for years now, is to expand representation. America has become a pressure cooker without a relief valve and is about to explode from a lack of representation.
We will not get "better" representation from the same old, same old limited number of Democrats and Republicans where the Speaker of the House gathers a majority of 218 votes to shove a shit sandwich down the throats of the American people. One man or one woman cannot adequately represent the interests of 750,000 people in a Congressional District. Neither can one man or one woman chief executive sitting in the White House adequately represent the interests of 329 million people. Senators elected by the people only complicate matters. They are supposed to represent their States, and their popular election only subverts the representation provided by Representatives to the US House.
The same old, same old stands in the way of expanding representation.
Americans should make more representation in Congress their number one objective and put the elites on notice that unless they expand representation in Congress, they are history. They can keep their seats in an expanded Congress with far less individual political power and influence for themselves, or they can have no power at all.
It's their choice. Give it up, or it's the guillotine.
1. The power of ordinary people to control our country is getting
weaker every day, as political leaders on both sides, fight to protect
their own power and privilege, at the expense of the nation’s
well-being. We need to restore what we really believe in – real
democracy by the people and real free-enterprise. AGREE = 87%; DISAGREE =
10%
2. The country is run by an alliance of incumbent politicians, media
pundits, lobbyists and other powerful money interests for their own
gain at the expense of the American people. AGREE = 87%; DISAGREE = 10%
3. Most politicians really care about people like me. AGREE = 25%; DISAGREE = 69%
4. Powerful interests from Wall Street banks to corporations, unions
and political interest groups have used campaign and lobbying money to
rig the system for them. They are looting the national treasury of
billions of dollars at the expense of every man, woman and child. AGREE =
81%; DISAGREE = 13%
5. The U.S. has a two-track economy where most Americans struggle
every day, where good jobs are hard to find, where huge corporations get
all the rewards. We need fundamental changes to fix the inequity in our
economic system. AGREE = 81%; DISAGREE = 15%
6. Political leaders are more interested in protecting their power
and privilege than doing what is right for the American people. AGREE =
86%; DISAGREE = 11%
7. The two main political parties are too beholden to special and
corporate interest to create any meaningful change. AGREE = 76%;
DISAGREE = 19%
8. The real struggle for America is not between Democrats and
Republicans but between mainstream American and the ruling political
elites. AGREE = 67%; DISAGREE = 24%
For years, the political elites have governed America for their
own benefit and to the detriment of the American people – this election
is the best chance in our lives to take back our government. AGREE = 63% (with 46% strongly agreeing); DISAGREE = 31%
Voters were then asked the same two questions of each candidate: Which
is closer to your opinion if (Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump) wins:
the political elites and special interests win; the political elite and
special interests lose.
By 65 percent to 35 percent voters
said that if Hillary Clinton wins the political elites WIN. And by an
opposite margin, the majority of voters said that by 57 percent to 43
percent the elites LOSE if Trump wins.
Significant numbers of Clinton’s own voters believe that her win is a victory for the unpopular elites and special political interests.
