If we don’t restore majority rule—and to do so we must vanquish the tyranny of a corporate-backed minority—we will never solve climate change, inequality, balanced gun control, or ensure the sanctity and security of our elections.
even though Democrats won the statewide popular votes. The GOP currently controls 67 state legislative chambers and the Democrats only 37.
Congress also could change the method for electing the US House to “proportional ranked choice voting” in moderate-sized multi-seat districts , instead of the current"winner take all" single-seat districts. That would ensure broad representation in which a range of political parties would be able to win representation, and a majority of votes would always win a majority of seats. That also would give voters more choices and decrease some of the bitter partisanship.
The Democratic-controlled Senate also should abolish the filibuster and toss it into the ash heap of history; or, to foster bipartisanship, use a process that gradually lowers the threshold from 60 votes to a final 51 vote majority.
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