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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen we get FULL control back in 2020, what can we do so that
THIS SHIT NEVER happens again!!
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The system is broken and has a fatal flaw that prevents us from fixing it.
bluestarone
(16,723 posts)WE are ALWAYS the fix-it group! Democrats have saved this country numerous times!!
Perrenial Voter
(173 posts)gerrymandering, disenfranchisement of felons, disproportionate representation of red states in Senate, to name a few. The field is very slanted against the people.
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)Those laws will help states pass the popular vote compact in time for 2024, thus neutering the EC. States controlling elections is the one item in your list that cannot be changed as 3/4 of the states would never approve the necessary amendment.
All of the others are fair game for immediate action.
Perrenial Voter
(173 posts)because they have equated it with speech.
bluestarone
(16,723 posts)Could we ask SC to reconsider corporations are people bullshit? Do something about donations?
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)Each state gets two senators, period. Constitution makes this the only thing that can't be changed by an amendment. Right now 50% of the population lives in just 8 states. By 2040 it is projected that 70% of the population will be in just 15 states. The senate will always be under disproportional representation of a magnitude that could bring on revolution. It was never intended that this provision of the constitution be able to give majority control to that small of a minority. When it was 13 state, there weren't enough "small" states to create this condition. Now, there are so many small states, they can get overwhelming control of the senate. It affects presidential elections too, although that is fixable. But the senate is not.
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)to further the Republican rule. Democrats have been screwed for many years
Dirty Socialist
(3,248 posts)The Republicans will block anything and everything
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)bluestarone
(16,723 posts)Have done to our country? Judges, policies, whatever? (if we have EVERYTHING House Senate and the white house)
LonePirate
(13,386 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)It's overloaded even at full strength, so add more judges. We can add DC, Puerto Rico and Guam as states to reduce the Senate disadvantage. We can increase the size of the house to reduce the effect of gerrymandering and the electoral college disadvantage. We can pass a voter rights act to reduce voter suppression. We can rewrite environmental laws to make them harder to tamper with by executive order.
bluestarone
(16,723 posts)And VERY SMART!!
standingtall
(2,785 posts)If that happens we must get rid of the legislative filibuster. Republicans have gotten rid of every other form of filibuster whenever it suited there purposes so we do don't owe them the courtesy of preserving the legislative filibuster. With the legislative filibuster abolished we then reform the supreme court and finally to ensure the changes we make are lasting we work to make every inhabited U.S. territory a state. Not just Puerto Rico and D.C., but all of them.
bluestarone
(16,723 posts)For minimum 8 years!!
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)The ruinous laws republicans have been imposing for years. Stop trying to build off the piles of shit republicans have been stacking up and take back what republicans have been screwing out of people for years.