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In reply to the discussion: Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)Clarence Thomas was approved by Senators who represented less than 50% of the US population. Thomas becomes the deciding vote in Bush v Gore where the right wingers on the court stop the FL recount. Bush "wins" the election because every vote in his FL lead weighed 1000x that of any vote in Gore's national lead.
US and world history were changed for the worst AGAINST the will of the People. But there's no one to blame except a mindless, antidemocratic vote weighting formula called the EC... a scheme originally designed to magnify the power of whites in slave states.
As long as there is no civic equality in the vote in terms of representation, then then is always the possibility for a tyranny of the minority... and our federal system is a giant vote weighting/dilution scheme. We see this in the EC, in the Senate where 18% of the US population gets 52% of the seats... and in the amendment formula.