OBAMA, LAST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT EVER

Democracy is in danger in this election not just in the United States but the world. Common knowledge tells us that Republican believe in democracy only as long as they are the winners. What is super important to understand is, “What do they mean by the pronoun “they” and how do they intend to achieve this end. If we look around the nation, as evidence of what they mean, several underlying themes all related to the belief that they will “cheat to defeat”.

 For democracy to work elections must be “fair” for everyone to vote; the truth is that Republicans cannot win in fair elections. They themselves admit this by what they do to make elections unfair and do it so pervasively. This is why we have massive nation wide efforts at voter suppression; where you have Republican control you have voter suppression. For Republicans, what it means to be fair is that only Republican voters have the right to vote; this is what voter suppression is all about. This is why we have massive right wing spending for campaigns to elect “conservative” judges so they can control courts. The courts that will make judgments based on political philosophy and not jurisprudence. There are a growing number of examples where judges have supported this unfair, unconstitutional voter suppression. This effort runs deep. In addition, we see several secretaries of states and attorneys general in Republican controlled states making obviously unfair decisions favoring Republican candidates. We cannot forget that to flag waving, democracy (small “d” democracy) loving, patriotic Republicans, fairness in elections means that voting counts as long as only Republicans can vote; let’s call this “provision democracy”.  

It looks like Republicans will be in charge of the congressional branch of government. We all know that one of the hallmarks of that party is that they will not compromise with democrats. What we might overlook is that it is not only the Democrats they refuse to compromise with but also they refuse to compromise with other Republican. This means that voters may reelect Mitch McConnell to the Senate but we cannot assume that the senate will choose him as their leader. The radical wing of the Tea Party, which its self is radical, will gain power in this election and may prevent his reelection as their leader and elect one of their own. Regardless, they will force the entire Senate to the right, which has ominous overtones even for “normal” Republicans; the entire agenda shifts from rational economic and social conservatism to radicalism.

For example, of what this means consider what they mean by “they”, when they say they want to take, “their government back.” To the radical republicans, what this means is that only white, northern European ancestor, male, property owners can vote. Immigrants can become citizens but “they” can never become “Americans”. Put this in the context of elections. We had a recent dust up over the Presidents birth certificate. The President is half-black; therefore, he can never be a citizen any more than a Native American is a citizen. His birth certificate says he was born in Hawaii, which by law and common sense makes him and “American”. Repercussion to his election calls my attention to one thing Republicans are doing to corrupt the electoral system. The people elected him by a plurality meaning a majority of those voting wanted him to be President. With this in mind and after the radical republican control of Congress, I predict there will be a move to elect the President by precincts the same as we elect our senators, taking the vote out of the hands of the people.

To understand why, consider the plethora of colored political maps we see on every news program on TV. Invariable, there are great sweeps of red on the map when the maps show precinct only but there are both red and blue states on maps done by state. This election spells trouble for constitutional democracy; they will use this power to take their country back, to change our country in a fundamental way. The 2010 elections swept Republicans into power in a number of States and we can predict how they will use this power. By what they have done in the past at the state level

Of great significance was that 2010 was a census year. According to the Constitution, we elect representatives to the House of Representatives by districts of equal population; thus, sparsely populated areas are huge but have equal representation as small densely populated areas. By gerrymandering voting districts, Republican controlled state governments put the majority of districts in those states into hands of Republican even when there are more Democrats living in those states—in contrast, people elect two senators for each state and the president by a plurality; a simple majority of vote without regard to territory. The result was that the “all” Republican controlled states sent “all” Republican representatives to Washington but, in stark contrast, often sent Democratic Senators. In the end, gerrymandering gave them control of the House of Representatives, which gave them the power to work their devilish voter suppression magic. Political maps show blue spots indicating urban America, in a sea of rural red. With voter suppression and gerrymandering, precinct election of presidents would give Republicans unequivocally control of entire government.

Political maneuvering to create precinct elections is interference in the way our country works politically. In addition, with total control, there will be economic corruption as well; no regulations on business, not environmental control, no department of education, which will put us on the road to becoming a third world country like Honduras, Guatemala, or a Christian equivalent of Syria, for example. The tragedy of 2014 will last for a long time.       

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