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Proportional Representation is the Solution for Gerrymandering

June 14, 2018June 20, 2018 daniel 0 Comments Eric H. Holder Jr. (D-New York), gerrymandering, Holder’s anti-gerrymandering crusade, How Proportional Representation can End Gerrymandering, How Proportional Representation Might Work for Congress, National Democratic Redistricting Committee, NDRC, proportional representation, Proportional Representation is the Solution for Gerrymandering, Why each House District Should Represent One Million Voters

Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) will fail because it ignores the real cause of gerrymandering: fear.

Parties and politicians gerrymander districts because they are afraid of becoming powerless. That fear is a very valid one in our winner-take-all political system – in which one party represents each district.

Groups like rural whites and African Americans correctly understand they will get little or no political power without gerrymandering. Under the present system, no gerrymandering would no representation for many Americans.

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The House of Representatives Does not represent the American People

June 10, 2018June 10, 2018 daniel current gerrymandered system, gerrymandering, House of Representatives, How can the House be Made More Representative?, the House fails to represent the American people, The House of Representatives Does not represent the American People, The Wyoming rule, Why the House of Representatives Does not represent the American People

The House is neither larger enough, nor diverse enough, to adequately represent modern America, data from the Pew Research Center indicates. The same data indicates that the House fails in performing its constitutionally-mandated job of representing the American people.

Today’s strict constructionist U.S. Supreme Court is likely to rule that the House has to grow to represent America leading to a new political crisis. Strict constructionists believe today’s government must follow the intent of the Founding Fathers in its actions.

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Trump Trade War will Benefit Only China

June 9, 2018 daniel 2018 election season in the United States, 25% US tariffs on imported steel, ArcelorMittal SA (NYSE: MT), better trade deal from China, Cecilia Malmstrom, Franco-Russia Strategic Project, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), Pennsylvania’s 18th District i, Trump Trade War will Benefit Only China, Trump’s trade actions

The real winner from the trade war will be China which will have a closer relationship with America than ever before. Trump seems to care more about getting a better trade deal from China than US alliances, Eurasia Future noted. That might set the stage for a future US China alliance that will run roughshod over weaker powers. Trump is only restrained from making more open moves towards Beijing by racist elements in the Republican Party.

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The Dangerous Stupidity of American Unilateralism

May 20, 2018May 20, 2018 daniel Congress has far more guilt than Trump, Ending the Age of Unilateralism, new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Palestinians are dying because of American politics, The Age of Unilateralism, The Danger from Unilateralism, The ultimate cause of the deaths was American exceptionalism, Unilateralism is the problem Not Trump

Beyond Congress, Trump’s predecessors and their enablers in the media need to be singled out. Unilateralism has been America’s foreign policy for the past 26 years since the end of the Cold War. We live in what might be called “The Age of Unilateralism.

Given present-day American political realities I imagine we will be stuck with the unilateralist foreign policy and the death toll it racks up for the foreseeable future.

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Polls Show Democrats Need to Change their Minds on Trade

May 16, 2018 daniel Both Democrats and Trump are Out of Touch on Trade, Democratic Party, free trade a "good thing, Polls Show Democrats Need to Change their Minds on Trade, The available data shows that most Americans like the idea of free trade and support it., Why Democrats Need to Learn to Love Free Trade

The Pew numbers demonstrate that President Donald J. Trump’s (R-New York) trade policies are a minority position in America. Strangely enough, it is a minority composed of largely of Democrats.

Around 67% of Democrats said “free trade” was a bad thing, which is clearly a minority position. Only 26% of Democrats said “free trade” was a good thing which puts the party at odds with the majority position.

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Where do Republicans go After Trump?

May 12, 2018 daniel • A libertarian party, • A populist or Economic Nationalist (Trumpist) Party, • Reaganism 2.0, 21st Century Eisenhower Republicanism, post-Trump Republican Party, pseudo-conservative propaganda outlets, the Donald’s economic nationalist agenda, the Grand Old Party of the Future, Trump has No Ideas, What the Republicans Need After Trump, White Christian Nationalist Party, Why there will be no Progress until Trump is Gone, working class party

It would be a return to the Republican Party of the 1950s, which was willing to live with high taxes and expanding government, as long as private property was protected. This scenario will win because it will attract the most votes.

The bottom line is that the Republican Party will have to change completely if it is to survive the Post-Trump World. That will happen and it will create a new Party that most present-day Republicans can live with but will not be very comfortable in.

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Democrats Jobs’ Guarantee is a Terrible Idea

April 29, 2018April 29, 2018 daniel .S. Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), A Jobs Guarantee Might Hurt Economic Growth, Democrats Jobs Guarantee is a Terrible Idea, Federal Guarantee Jobs Development Act, Federal Jobs Guarantee, Jobs Guarantee, jobs guarantee is absurd, modern-class of serfs, Technology shows why a Jobs Guarantee will not grow the economy, The Jobs Guarantee is More Probable than you think, The Jobs Guarantee Road to Serfdom, The Jobs Guarantee will do nothing to Help America, The Jobs Guarantee would make things worse

America faces a future with fewer jobs, less money, less economic activity, and more income inequality. The “jobs guarantee” will do nothing to fix that situation because it ignores the problems, and might make things worse.

Agencies would end up paying people $15 an hour to paint rocks, wash vehicles by hand, rake leaves, pick-up litter, or sit at a desk and play League of Legends on the government computer. Many agencies might create up separate needless departments just to keep the guarantee employees from interfering with the actual work.

A likely side effect of the guarantee would be the creation of a large class of uneducated people with little or no initiative or independence, that are completely dependent on the government. Many individuals would end up stuck in dead-end guarantee jobs just to get health insurance.

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How Obama enabled Hillary and Helped Trump

April 22, 2018May 13, 2018 daniel How Obama Enabled Clinton, How Obama enabled Hillary and Helped Trump, Obama was certainly in a position to block Hillary’s path to the nomination, Obama was certainly in a position to intervene and make a Democratic victory more likely., Saint Barrack of Hawaii, Trump should be thanking Barrack.

The former President gave Trump a tremendous assist by enabling Hillary R. Clinton’s (D-New York) unsuccessful and destructive presidential campaign. Unfortunately, almost nobody on either side of the aisle seems to be willing to call out Saint Barrack of Hawaii out for his role as an enabler in the Clinton fiasco.

The dictionary definition of an enabler is; “a person who encourages or enables negative or self-destructive behavior in another.” That is exactly the role Obama played in the fiasco known as Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

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Paul Ryan Represents Everything that is wrong with Modern American Politics

April 21, 2018 daniel Outgoing U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan Jr., Paul Ryan Represents Everything that is wrong with Modern American Politics, Why Ryan Failed

The failure of Ryan should trouble us because the Speaker exemplifies many of the characteristics of modern American politics. Ryan shares those characteristics with many of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle; which explains why our politics are incredibly ineffective in an era of spectacular American achievements in other fields of endeavor such as technology, finance, entertainment, and business.

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Why Paul Ryan is leaving Congress

April 15, 2018April 15, 2018 daniel Is Ryan the New Reagan?, Ryan is leaving because he does not want to be Nancy Pelosi, Ryan’s departure represents a defeat the principled and idea-based conservatism he embodied., Ryan’s Retirement Represents a Failure for Conservatism, That will put Ryan in a role much like President Ronald Reagan, We have not seen the last of Paul Ryan, What Happens after Ryan?, Why Paul Ryan is leaving Congress

U.S. Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan Jr. (R-Wisconsin) is retiring from Congress because of the 2018 Congressional election. Ryan’s departure represents a defeat the principled and idea-fashioned conservatism he embodied.
So what happens after Ryan leaves the Capitol? Nobody knows because both the Democrats and the Republicans in the House are completely leaderless. There is no obvious figure that can step up and take his place in either party.

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