The framers of our
Constitution, representing thirteen Colonies in the 18th Century,
could not have imagined that 240 years later in the 21st Century, in
a Nation of over 326.5 million citizens: one
quarter would be living in the three most populous States, represented by only 6 Senators; one quarter would be living in the six next most populous States, represented by only 12 Senators, one quarter would be living
in the eleven second to least
populous States, represented by 22
Senators, and one quarter would be
living in the 32 least populous
States, represented by 64 Senators.
Many of these almost exclusively
Republican Senators represent entire States with a total population smaller
than many Cities in the other 20 States. This is not representative democracy. The fifty-two Republican Senators
today represent only 129.8 million citizens (40%), the 48 Democratic and
Independent Senators represent 196.8 million citizens (60%).
This disproportionate
over-representation of Republicans in the United States Senate is not as
flagrant in the House of Representatives, but due to systematic Congressional
District gerrymandering by Republican-dominated Statehouses, again, Republican
Congresspersons, like their Senate counterparts, represent a minority of voters.
This is how a minority
political party can dominate the Congress in a divided Nation. It is also how
a lunatic demagogue can be ‘elected’ by an electoral college that
over-represents low-population, mostly Red States, while losing the popular vote
by a 2.9 million vote plurality. Only with massive
voter turnouts, in every election, starting now, can We the People re-establish a government at the Federal, State, and
Local levels that is representative of the majority.
When the two major Political Parties represented an overlapping spectrum of the electorate, from Left to Right, and moderates in both parties worked to craft bipartisan solutions to the Nation's challenges for decades following WW II, the non-representative flaws and quirks in our political system were tolerable. But with the current poisonous political environment, begun in the 1980s with the Republican Culture Wars and accelerated in the 1990s with the Republican framing of Politics as War by Other Means, and now an opportunistic minority Republican Party willing to abide a lunatic demagogue unfit so-called 'President' to attempt to push through their Right-Wing and pro-Filthy Rich agenda, the flaws in our political system are not sustainable. Obama's naive assertion, that we are one United States, is no longer tenable.
After we elect a Democratic majority in the House in the 2018 midterms and our elected representatives in the House and both Parties in the Senate remove Trump and Pence from office in disgrace in 2019, for their High Crimes and Misdemeanors, we must face an indisputable fact: We are not one Nation. We didn't create the current breach in the body politic. We didn't expose and embolden the lunatic minority
malignant cancer, irreconcilable and incompatible with our values and future as
a Nation. Trump did this. This is not just unprecedented; Trump has rendered
the Nation ungovernable. His profound mental illness precludes him from stopping this,
and renders him illegitimate and unfit to serve in office.
We didn't force the Republican Party to embrace Donald Trump. Many opposed him as unfit during the primaries and general election campaign. But after his unexpected electoral college 'win,' they opportunistically decided to tolerate and cravenly support Trump, hoping to further their own agenda. In so doing, they have revealed their rapacious greed, disregard for the common good, disdain for most Americans, and moral bankruptcy. This must and will
end. We the People will put a stop to this. The Republican Party has forfeited any legitimate claim to govern, PERIOD!
This is why, while or after Trump is removed from office, if these Trump base lunatics force us to re-litigate the Civil War, there will be no
premature peace. Lincoln should have let his Generals, Grant and Sherman, and their mighty Union armies--their ranks swelled by self-liberated African-American slaves--finish
the job in 1865--killing every Rebel man, woman, and child, and every Rebel
sympathizer. This time, the Blue versus the Red, instead of the Grey, will
be a war of total annihilation. And when we have killed them all, we will
rebuild and repopulate the devastated secessionist former Red States with a diverse and inclusive population of Whites, Hispanics and
African-Americans, and make America truly great, for the first time. Trump, the Republican Party that embraced him, and
the malignant cancer he has brought into the light, will Reap the Whirlwind…
Or, as their
“Pro-Life” posters say, they can ‘Choose Life’, aggregate in the ten to fifteen reddest
States, and vote to voluntarily secede from the Union. Either way, this ends.
