Posted on 05/22/2019 2:59:16 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
The core democratic principle is that people should have a meaningful say in political decisions that affect their lives. In Alabama, we’ve just seen what the opposite of democracy looks like: 25 white male Republicans in the state senate were able to ban almost all abortion in the state. The consequences of that decision fall exclusively on women, who will be forced to carry all pregnancies to term if the law comes into effect. And, as has happened in other countries with abortion bans, poor women will be hit hardest of all – the rich can usually afford to go elsewhere.
There is no reason to respect the legitimacy of this kind of political decision, in which those in power show no sign of having listened to the people they’re deciding on behalf of. Though plenty in the pro-life movement are female, the people who will be most affected are nowhere in the debate. Unfortunately, structural problems with the US government mean that we’re heading for an even more undemocratic future.
White men have never made up the majority of the US population, and yet from the country’s beginnings they have made up most of its political decision-makers. The constitution itself is an outrageously undemocratic document. People today are bound by a set of procedural rules that were made without the input of women, African Americans or native people. The framers quite deliberately constructed a system that would prevent what they called “tyranny of the majority” but what is more accurately called “popular democracy”.
That set of rules has been very effective at keeping the American populace from exercising power. James Madison was explicit about the function of the United States Senate – it was “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority”.
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The party of tolerance and divesity seems ready to endure it once again with the two top can’t-i-dates rich old white guys. Dumbasses.
maybe when poor minorities start paying all the bills
including their own
In other news, rich ethnic Japanese males rule Japan.
There is even more shocking news about who rules every other nation on Earth.
Hmmm, seemed to have missed the FACT that the bill came from the house to the senate and it was sponsored by a woman, and passed by multiple women, then it was signed into law by a ... wait for it...woman.
selecting convenient facts are we? FAKE NEWS
Please.
Guardian address those leeches of a Royal ahem Family and their aristocratic offshoots before you dare publish the dreck about white men.
Class warfare much?
Yeah! We need poor black or brown people to rule America!
LOL
the Joooooooozzzzzzzzzz
I’m a jew.. where’s my seat in the global jewish mafia? I’ll just be off plotting and scheming with the other jews while I await your answer..
British lecturing about treatment of non-whites! Read a friggin history book, hypocrite!
Will we tolerate the country being run by gun-grabbing Democratic Commies?
Lol. I’m not Jewish but can I plot with ya please? Sort of the same corp different division thing.
Interesting that nobody on the left ever points that out.
There’s always a reason to hold a grudge over those who run the roost.
Here’s it’s Whitey.
In Indonesia & Malaysia, it’s the Chinese.
Kazakhstan, the Russians.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indians, Chinese, or some other foreigner.
Brains, not brawn will always win out the day. Some folks have them, most don’t.
Well now that you mention it, let me tell you about a Mall in Istanbul owned by some foreign entity. :0
They won’t be happy until we are ruled by black transexuals.
By this logic Roe should be overturned since it affected babies and not one baby was on the Supreme Court in 1973. :)
Ah, Nancy Pelosi was just a bad dream.
In the UK the top people are:
Thresa May - female
Elizabeth Windsor - rich female
I wish I could forget American was ruled by a rich black guy a few years back. I just hope I stay healthy.
But Roe v. Wade, a dubious constitutional legal opinion of a divided US Supreme Court consisting completely of old white men, is sacrosanct and settled law.
Poor nonwhites would run America as a 3rd world country. Take your pick.
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