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How is an elected representative a dictator? About half of the US population voted in 2020, something like 100x the proportion of the population who voted to elect representatives at the time of the constitution. By any standard the US is far more democratic than it was then. I do agree that things should be more democratic now though.

Fortunately we still vote for our representatives. But I'm sure the US Federal government is interested in your veiled calls for violence.

Enjoy it while you can, Moore v. Harper is up for debate in the Supreme Court this year, and it appears to be in favor of this (insane) idea that voting is no longer a right.

Insane? Or a logical progression of the underlying culture that has successfully captured the institution after decades of planning?

I was unaware of this, but it seems insane that that's even being heard[0].

[0] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/moor...

I wonder what power they’ve decided they need beyond ignoring tallies. (Or using paperless unauditable voting machines.)

Some states don’t vote for their representatives, moving forward.

Seriously, go watch the speech, then you don’t need to speculate about what the executive branch thinks about veiled threats for violence and domestic terrorism, or what I’m advocating for. Here’s the official transcript:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...

Article describing state-level efforts to allow vote tallies to be overridden by partisan groups (by this tally, there were 10 bills in 8 states):

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dozen-state-laws-shift-power...

This tally has it at 14 states:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/14-gop-controll...

MTG successfully argued in court that since 1776 is emblazoned over the threshold of the court, that references to the American Revolution are built into our judicial system.

This program predates Biden. The fact that the Biden administration is cooperating with the senator (a Democrat) suggests the Biden administration doesn’t support the program very strongly.

Most of this stuff was enabled by the patriot act, which was pushed through by George W Bush. Also, the Republican controlled Supreme Court recently ruled it is legal for states pass laws that explicitly ignore vote tallies moving forward.

If you want the US to be a democracy moving forward, I suggest you watch Biden’s Sept 1, 2022 speech. It touches on these issues.

Joe Biden wrote the Patriot Act. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...

Good to know. Thanks. Hopefully he’s really mellowed out since then.

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