Omar MooreDemocratic House Rep. Jasmine Crockett on today’s Supreme Court decision. #SCOTUS
Space Wrangler@popcornreel
She isnt wrong....this is the craziest set of SCOTUS decisions I can remember in any court term.
Rand Strauss@popcornreel
Being scared isn't a solution.
Why not offer one?
Biden promised to unite the country, but had no plan.
Why not back one?
#LetsMakePeopleCount
Being scared isn't a solution.
Why not offer one?
Biden promised to unite the country, but had no plan.
Why not back one?
#LetsMakePeopleCount
Wm.sonStart us off, Rand. What should we do? I mean is the message wrong and you disagree with it, or is it the messenger?
Do you have something to gain, should trump win?
@Sfwmson @popcornreel
Should Trump win, we all have a lot to lose. Between gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, and the court supporting disenfranchisement and executive immunity, we've lost a lot already.
The problem is political parties. The Constitution was never designed to withstand them. The founders thought they wouldn't form soon, certainly not take over, but they did. And no one ever tried to figure out why.
No room here. See PeopleCount.org/hi.htm
#LetsMakePeopleCount
Should Trump win, we all have a lot to lose. Between gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, and the court supporting disenfranchisement and executive immunity, we've lost a lot already.
The problem is political parties. The Constitution was never designed to withstand them. The founders thought they wouldn't form soon, certainly not take over, but they did. And no one ever tried to figure out why.
No room here. See PeopleCount.org/hi.htm
#LetsMakePeopleCount
I agree, but here we are. I tell my one libertarian friend that it's not MY job to make a third or fourth party viable here. It's their job to earn my support. When I see ideas that I agree with and which I feel would better my nation, I accept them and push the big parties to recognize the item.
The two parties have cornered the market so to speak, right? It is the fault of the voters and the two parties (who work to exclude any others.)
I have voted third party before usually locally, but once for Perot. There's just waaaay too much to lose this time.
@Sfwmson @popcornreel
Placing blame doesn't help. If it's not your job to fix politics, it's not anyone's job.
The opportunity is to pitch in and make it happen.
Take responsibility. Be a patriot. Love sometimes means making things happen.
Read the link I put in the first message.
#LetsMakePeopleCount
Placing blame doesn't help. If it's not your job to fix politics, it's not anyone's job.
The opportunity is to pitch in and make it happen.
Take responsibility. Be a patriot. Love sometimes means making things happen.
Read the link I put in the first message.
#LetsMakePeopleCount
@Sfwmson @popcornreel Parties are a symptom of the problem, not the cause. It is very easy to place blame, like on the parties, both for misbehaving as well as for obstructing changes that would make 3rd parties viable. It's much harder to see the cause. America's founders intended for parties to NOT form, at least for a while, and to be weak if they formed. But they formed right away! Worse, it seems poli sci never figured out why. That is, how to make them obsolete/not-needed.
@Sfwmson @popcornreel Parties formed because representatives couldn't get power from voters after the election. There was no many-to-one 2-way communication. (And it would have been slow/inefficient in those days.) PeopleCount is the (version 1) design of a political comm platform that'll make it efficient and rewarding for both voters and politicians. The communication will create a relationship: Accountability. Representatives will (always) be accountable to voters.
@Sfwmson @popcornreel
Another way of looking at politics: What's needed for elected officials is
1) a hiring process,
2) a way to make the final decision (elections), and
3) a process for managing elected officials.
PeopleCount is a system that creates #1 and #3 efficiently, including allVoters <-> allVoters communication so we can work together to hire and manage.
Another way of looking at politics: What's needed for elected officials is
1) a hiring process,
2) a way to make the final decision (elections), and
3) a process for managing elected officials.
PeopleCount is a system that creates #1 and #3 efficiently, including allVoters <-> allVoters communication so we can work together to hire and manage.
@Sfwmson @popcornreel
3rd part: To have representatives work for us, we need a good hiring process and a managing process. We have neither. All we have is voting, using a poor method, at the end of the random, expensive, candidate-controlled hiring process. It's no wonder the politics in the US sucks, and that it has worked poorly since the beginning. Disinformation and manipulation aren't new, they're just super-powered with the web.
#LetsMakePeopleCount
3rd part: To have representatives work for us, we need a good hiring process and a managing process. We have neither. All we have is voting, using a poor method, at the end of the random, expensive, candidate-controlled hiring process. It's no wonder the politics in the US sucks, and that it has worked poorly since the beginning. Disinformation and manipulation aren't new, they're just super-powered with the web.
#LetsMakePeopleCount
I have nothing to gain from Trump winning. That would be a greater disappointment.
What we should do, besides voting for Harris, is to look at and address the root cause of our political problems, uniting the country in the process.
#LetsMakPeopleCount
with PeopleCount.org
Disclosure: This is my project.
@popcornreel For Democracy to work, representatives must be accountable to voters. They're not, except a very tiny bit before elections. Americans don't even understand what "accountable" means. It's a relationship. Relationships require communication that we've never had in politics. What we need is a political communication platform to support this. It must be rewarding to voters and politicians. It has been designed. See PeopleCount.org/short.htm
morningstar54@popcornreel tRump is not intelligent enough to know this. Evil conspirators are guiding him.