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Democracy in the US has been dead since about 1913.
That's when they froze the House of Representatives at 435 delegates (unconstitutionally at first), although the Constitution said it should be proportional. During the period that the current U.S. Constitution has been in effect, the number of citizens per congressional district has risen from an average of 33,000 in 1790 to almost 700,000 as of 2008.
By the way, it was capped by the Republicans in 1929 with the adoption of the Reapportionment Act of 1929. As sufferage extended out form just white men to african americans and then women, the state mechanisms started gearing up to disenfranchise voters and you see the rise of modern corporate propaganda. Coming to a head now with this current spate of "Voter ID" laws, and the ideas of corporate personhood.
It's been all over since then - the fascist experiment that will soon be coming to a head has been a long slow process, but it's about to pop.
Those that make peaceful change impossible, make violent change a certainty.
- And pre 1913, we had Democracy? No voting for women or blacks?qoob
- Didn't say that. But the concentrated effort against it's growth started in 1913TheBlueOne