TLDR: Yes!

Donald Trump won the 2024 election by 1.5 million votes with just 32% of the electorate voting for him. On a different day, or with different messaging, Kamala Harris could have had more votes than Donald Trump. It was that close. The 37% who chose not to vote for either candidate were the biggest voting bloc.

In a winner take all environment however, President Trump chooses nearly everybody in "Powerful Few Zone" and guarantees that for 4 years his unique style of governing is the law (almost) and that at least ⅔ of American voters are dissatisfied. Love him or loathe him, President Trump makes the drawbacks of the Traditional Governance Model in a Democracy very obvious.

Three elements drive democracy in the US: the Constitution, power and money. The political system, as set up at the end of the 18th Century, is by definition antiquated, has been gamed nearly out of all recognition.

Yes, the USA is a democracy in name only.

A Dozen US Democracy Drawbacks

(You can probably think of more!)

  1. The Electoral College - deliberately put in place by the Founders to buffer total democracy - it means a candidate with fewer votes can still win.
  2. The winner takes all - see above.
  3. Each state has 2 Senators - California with 4 million citizens has 2, Wyoming with 600,000 citizens has 2.
  4. Voters are excluded for 4 years while daily access is given to all manner of unelected interests - business, lobbyists, donors etc. 
  5. The President is able to rule by Executive Order (EO) (similar to a King’s Decree) - as long as Congress is compliant.
  6. Ineffective guardrails -the system’s rules appear to be broken with impunity.
  7. Parties (not envisioned by the Founders) control the choice of candidates and who wins the primaries.  
  8. Gerrymandering / term redistricting - changing the voting district boundaries to make safe seats (the politicians choose the voters rather than the other way round)
  9. Representative democracy is only partial - in any district, nobody represents the voters of the losing party.
  10. Party groupthink - the Party mindset closes off new ideas that don’t fit the orthodoxy. 
  11. Super PACS - the advantage is given to those with deepest pockets.
  12. Short-termism - the goal is to gain/keep power in the next election, not do your best for the country.

In short, democracy, as practised in the US, is really about power and money. Power gives access to money; money gives access to power. The rules of democracy under the Constitution lost to the lust for power and money.

The system has been gamed by the very people who swore to uphold it.

History Repeating

Remember the causes of the 1776 revolutions in France and Britain? They were: unfair taxation without representation, high debt levels and resistance by those in power to social change. Those elements are all present in the US today.

Without some sort of system reinvention, the seeds of a 21st Century revolution are being sown.

To avoid the next bloody revolution (and with 400 million guns in the US, it will be bloody) we need an alternative. More than that, we need a peaceful new way to create a real democracy in the US - a Citizen-led democracy.

And here we are.

Imagine

Imagine there's a possibility that the game can change and real democracy replaces the DINO. It all works out. Does that idea appeal to you?

And does being an early adopter appeal as well? You know, being on the leading edge of creating a real democracy in the USA? And then the world?

One More Thing

Caution! Genius at work!
Prince lets everybody know what he thinks of politicians...

Are you ready to create a Citizen-led democracy in the USA?

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