"He had often imagined himself jumping into the air and gliding down asymptotically for miles and miles, just inches above the surface of sidewalks like these. These sensations, and others like it, had come to be so vivid and real in his mind that as for the rest, so-called reality, he took literally in stride. He was not even entirely surprised when his feet left the ground and he began to rise in the air...
Using the metrics that are supposed to matter most in politics, we show--decisively and scientifically--why every state should be making it easier for its citizens to exercise our founding freedom, and do so on the one person, one vote principle, which serves as prelude/first volley--take your pick, depending on how martial you're feeling--to introduce three increasingly radically originalist pathways to get us back where we belong...
Like most imbalances in our own bodies, violations of the “one person, one vote” bedrock of democracy are its silent killer, maladies that make the Founders and their invention look suddenly old and frail. We traipse back through history to see how and where we went astray, identify the first step back, Republican-style, and then a second step (or a bit of a drive) we can all take together--with more to come...
In the previous post, we uncovered the originalist origins of the most fundamental element of our democracy, the right to vote, and paths to its restoration the founders would unequivocally support. All too often, those paths, and the right to govern votes are supposed to convey to our elected officials, have been sabotaged in the name of the Constitution by our least democratic branch, the judiciary. The reality: nothing the Court has done is supported by the actual words of the Constitution nor the vision of its creators, the proof of which is well-illustrated by both reams of clear evidence (including the English language) and the simple originalist reforms that could be deployed to end the Court's reign of error without requiring Constitutional amendment to do so...
The enemies of American democracy have been gaslighting us for decades with a doctrine they call "originalism" that supposedly justifies every anti-democratic "feature" of our current system as "the wisdom of the founders." The truth, as we'll show in our next four posts, is that real originalism requires rejection of every one of these authoritarian accretions--and the adoption of radical democracy fundamentalist programs to rid us of authoritarianism once and for all....
Not everyone really has "a cross to bear;" a greater, more mindful understanding and appreciation of the origin, purpose, and meaning--here on earth--of the primary symbol of our predominant faith, as well as its successors in our history and modern life, could help catalyze a spiritual revival we're badly in need off...