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Thread: The Electoral College: Thwarting Direct Democracy and Enabling Minority Tyranny 🗳️⚖️
1️⃣Let's talk about the Electoral College and how it impacts our democracy. 🇺🇸 #ElectoralCollege #DirectDemocracy #MinorityTyranny
1️⃣Let's talk about the Electoral College and how it impacts our democracy. 🇺🇸 #ElectoralCollege #DirectDemocracy #MinorityTyranny
2️⃣ The Electoral College is an outdated system that distorts the principle of "one person, one vote." 🙅♂️🗳️ It gives disproportionate power to states with smaller populations, diminishing the voice of the majority. #OnePersonOneVote #RepresentationMatters
3️⃣ Under the Electoral College, candidates focus on swing states while largely ignoring others. This means that citizens in non-battleground states often feel neglected and their concerns overlooked. 🗺️⚖️ #SwingStates #NeglectedVoices
⏰HJR 1 has sponsor testimony starting at 9am.
This bill is unfair, undemocratic, unpopular, and unnecessary. It must be stopped.
We'll be live-tweeting the hearing. Follow along. 🧵
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/03/14/lam…
This bill is unfair, undemocratic, unpopular, and unnecessary. It must be stopped.
We'll be live-tweeting the hearing. Follow along. 🧵
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/03/14/lam…
The House Constitutional Resolutions Committee is about to begin.
Watch along via @TheOhioChannel here: ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-hous…
Watch along via @TheOhioChannel here: ohiochannel.org/live/ohio-hous…
@TheOhioChannel Our process to amend the Ohio Constitution is rigorous, fair, and most importantly democratic.
HJR 1 is a power grab that would cement minority rule in our Constitution, by increasing the threshold for citizen-led initiatives to become law from 50% + 1 to a supermajority of 60%.
HJR 1 is a power grab that would cement minority rule in our Constitution, by increasing the threshold for citizen-led initiatives to become law from 50% + 1 to a supermajority of 60%.
This is the most important petition I have ever written, yet it has the least ✍️, why?
Petition: Require binding referendums on petitions that receive over 1 million signatures petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6203…
If you have ever signed a @HoCpetitions you should sign this 1
#DirectDemocracy
Petition: Require binding referendums on petitions that receive over 1 million signatures petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6203…
If you have ever signed a @HoCpetitions you should sign this 1
#DirectDemocracy
Have you created a petition and had it rejected?
Have you signed a petition that had 100k signatures but no action from the government?
1. Northern European nations and Canada are not Socialist nations, they are Capitalist (State and mostly private) which have large social safety nets (or welfare) for their citizens, paid for by Capitalism.
This is not an attack on those nations, their governments do actually
This is not an attack on those nations, their governments do actually
2. seem to care about their citizens and the people seem to have more control over their governments than in a Plutocratic nation such as the US. What is important to realize is that Capitalism only really cares about profit and that is destroying the planet, if we want to solve
3. these looming existential problems we can't hold up these nations as examples.
This is where we require a fundamental shift, as a species, in the way we think about civilization. Currently we are still trapped in the idea of trade and competition without seeing those as the
This is where we require a fundamental shift, as a species, in the way we think about civilization. Currently we are still trapped in the idea of trade and competition without seeing those as the
When you see people defending the status quo ask them what is their agenda or motivation, see if they reply.
What I have found is that everyone, without exception, has an agenda; some are working for intelligence agencies (public and/or private), some maybe "earn" a living from
What I have found is that everyone, without exception, has an agenda; some are working for intelligence agencies (public and/or private), some maybe "earn" a living from
the labor of others and enjoy a life of abject leisure and love having others serve them. Always think about this when determining their agenda.
So what is my agenda or motivation? Since everyone has one, including myself, I will share mine with you and it is simply to put an
So what is my agenda or motivation? Since everyone has one, including myself, I will share mine with you and it is simply to put an
end to all of this suffering going on in the world today. If my agenda were power, I would not be advocating for #DirectDemocracy politically as that eliminates the power of the few or the one, nor would I advocate for a #GiftEconomy as that eliminates economic hierarchy.
We stand in #Solidarity with our Workers in the #Unions & this is the only way to have a say in our Working Environment by #WorkingTogether & doing a #Strike!
People like us, who've been arguing against the broken Gears & For-profit exploitation of #Capitalism, comes in to help.
People like us, who've been arguing against the broken Gears & For-profit exploitation of #Capitalism, comes in to help.
We're in a #SocietalCollapse as the Full Stop & Endgame of #Capitalism's Growth has begun! We need Calls & Movements for a "Great Transition" from this broken #Dystopia where we have a #ClimateCrisis, #HousingCrisis, #Pandemic, #EvictionCrisis, #HealthcareCrisis,...
#BiodiversityCrisis, etc.
As the system focuses on #Economic Growth, #Corporate Interest & Businesses First while exploiting the #Labor who are treated like hell & not paid a #LivingWage nor anything while everything to basically live is practically an Expense under #Capitalism.
As the system focuses on #Economic Growth, #Corporate Interest & Businesses First while exploiting the #Labor who are treated like hell & not paid a #LivingWage nor anything while everything to basically live is practically an Expense under #Capitalism.
Our world is plagued by widespread corruption and misdeeds that is almost unfathomable. Why have it come thus far?
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Whatever problem we are facing we end up using the same system that created these problems. But there is a deep-rooted solution: #DirectDemocracy.
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Whatever problem we are facing we end up using the same system that created these problems. But there is a deep-rooted solution: #DirectDemocracy.
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Representative democracy is a huge middleman. Once it was a reasonable form of government, considered the size of nations. But now it is just a huge, and extremely expensive, middleman - that eats more and more of OUR cakes.
We wee in 2020 what these middlemen are doing.
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We wee in 2020 what these middlemen are doing.
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In 2020 we have a clear vision - 20/20 - of how corruption has crept into that middleman. This applies to all nations of the world. Everywhere the middleman is crazed for power.
The corruption has become so integral that the term "representation" is now a total lie.
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The corruption has become so integral that the term "representation" is now a total lie.
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Everything ready for the #ObservatorioDeLaCiudad
The brand new permanent citizen body of @MADRID composed with 49 randomly selected participants #deliberation #democracy
The brand new permanent citizen body of @MADRID composed with 49 randomly selected participants #deliberation #democracy
The mayor @ManuelaCarmena ready to welcome in the Pleno all participants of the #ObservatorioDeLaCiudad #sortition #civiclottery #democracy
El #ObservatorioDeLaCiudad now deliberative coaching by facilitators #criticalThinking #collaborativeWorkflow
