A Good First Step to Fix Our American Democracy
US Constitution Approved!
Let’s be honest with ourselves: Our political system is a two-party system — one eye red, one eye blue — and the only third parties we have are the vested interests that simply put have more power than the voters. The fight among the two parties is fiercer than before; each sees the other party as the enemy more and more. Something needs to be done. Our democracy is not broken, but the current system is getting to the end of its usefulness. There is a good first step available to make our democracy function better.
Two forms of democracy exist in this world (there are also mixtures of the two). We are familiar with our winner-takes-all system, and then there is proportional voting, something we are probably not too familiar with. Yet rescue can come from the other system by incorporating parts of that system. The good news is that the US Constitution allows us to have proportional voting for our cities and counties, places where today most if not all seats are taken up by one party only.
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In proportional voting all voters (often very close to 100 percent) can point their fingers to the person or party they voted for. That is starkly different from our system, because only the majority in a district appoints the representative. With our system, the losers…
