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There's also some merit to the argument that the institutional forms chosen by the Founding Fathers were compromises to maintain the institution of slavery. We live to this very day with a moribund and craptacular Senate because that body was designed to thwart the will of the People, because that would of meant an immediate and popular uprising against the institution of slavery, and slavery needed to be maintained to maintain the Union.
Today the Senate does it's best to prevent anything the People would will from happening based on institutional tools used to maintain slavery, but now serve corrupt corporate masters to keep as all happy techno serfs.
Think about it.
There is nothing in the Constitution about a 60 vote rule in the Senate. Yet that's what they cling to and wring their hands and moan about in public. It's pure arbitrary bullshit.Go and read about Nelson Rockefeller giving the tools to the Senate to change it's own rules, which they never use of course.
For the corrupt corporations it's easier to pay one or two Senators money to stand up and force a majority vote, and the Senators all cultivate their own little special interest gardens.
Also, the House was supposed to expand membership in relation to population. The number of House members hasn't changed since 1913. That means the proportional relationship between your vote and what a House representative speaks for has gotten smaller and smaller.
In other words, in 1913 one house district might have 20,000 people. Today it has 250,000. So a hundred years ago your influence on your rep was 1/20000/ Today it is 1/250000.
There's your "one man, one vote" theory shot to shit. You're vote is worth many magnitudes less than your grandfathers was. All because the House hasn't abided by the Constitution and expanded with population.
Also interesting to note that the Constitution mandates the government to do census and use those numbers to expand House membership. Odd that it's always the rightwing (real home of fascist) who love to argue about the "evil census". Yup, wouldn't want accurate figures for use in doling out proportional representation, no sir.
Of course I'm talking government institutional structural reform, and that's too much for you pea brains to handle. Go back to making clever puns on Obama's name.
- i think sumwurk jerks off in his hankie every time he uses "Barry" in a sentence.********
- Cloiture rules where made to stop filibuster prone senators (southern states) from blocking civil rights legislation actually.Mimio
- See...Mimio's on the historical tip. Thanks, M.luckyorphan
- i think sumwurk jerks off in his hankie every time he uses "Barry" in a sentence.