This is the politest dingleberry picture I could find.....
Posted on 12/04/2018 7:50:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Former Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) penned an op-ed Tuesday calling for the Senate to be abolished and for elections to be publicly funded.
Dingell, who represented Michigan in the House for over 59 years, wrote for the Atlantic a series of suggestions to address the "unprecedented cynicism about the nobility of public service itself."
The former lawmaker noted that in 1958 a survey from the University of Michigan found that 73 percent of Americans trusted the federal government “to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.” In 2017, the same study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that number down to just 18 percent.
One of the causes of frayed trust identified by Dingell was how a "minority of obnoxious asses can hold the entire country hostage to extremist views" because of the electoral college system and a Senate that provides two representatives to each state regardless of size.
"California has almost 40 million people, while the 20 smallest states have a combined population totaling less than that," he wrote. "Yet because of an 18th-century political deal, those 20 states have 40 senators, while California has just two. These sparsely populated, usually conservative states can block legislation supported by a majority of the American people. That’s just plain crazy."
Dingell also suggested moving toward full electoral participation by automatically registering all American citizens to vote when they turn 18 as well as campaign finance reform to improve accountability.
"Public service should not be a commodity, and elected officials should not have to rent themselves out to the highest bidder in order to get in to (or stay in) office," Dingell wrote.
Democrats will destroy anything they can't control.
Mob Rule.
I forgot that the name of our country is “The People’s Republic of America.” Somehow, I thought the states had something to do with our republic, but I was apparently mistaken.
We’re going to have another civil war.
It’s a question of when, not if.
Better solution: Repeal the 17th Amendment. Things will start getting better overnight.
that's all this corrupt piece of excrement ever did!!!
This is the politest dingleberry picture I could find.....
In 2017, the same study conducted by the Pew Research Center found that number down to just 18 percent.
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What Mr. Dingellberry fails to realize is that number is so low because leftists have been shoving down the throats of citizens things they consider wrong.
Exactly!
A better solution would be to repeal the 17th amendment.
Time to bring back nullification. If the State legislature agrees that a Federal law violates the Tenth Amendment, they have an unqualified right to nullify it.
So basically he is calling to go to a Parliamentary system.
How about cutting back on those seats in the House ,give each state 4 or 6 ,LOL I can hear the heads explode
We’re going to have another civil war.
It’s a question of when, not if.
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That’s right. It’s already a Cold C W and who knows when it goes Hot.
“It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”
-John Dingell on Obamacare
A person who truly doesn’t understand the constitution... or is a flat out traitor and enemy to this nation... Which most leftist are both.
Massa Dingell,( of the Dingell Family Plantation - promoting voter slavery since 1932) speaks from the heart?
It’s a question of when, not if.
Yep.
This is why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed. Put the senate selection back in the state legislatures hands. Try and go to war against the states.
Want to destroy the left and their 1000s of social engineering schemes?
Restore “real” money to the USA. End the Federal Reserve. Progressivism will die tomorrow.
The US government, and now its citizens exist on a mountain of debt, so I believe change will be highly difficult and therefore very unlikely - but its exactly that which supports progressive social engineers.
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