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How-We Build A Better Democracy.
Reaching beyond democracy cliches, and bypassing status quo no-change agents, or go slo-mo incrementalists, requires a decent understanding of our history, our entire electoral system, and human behavior. People want to make quick judgements about our system. Democracy is mob rule, tyranny of the majority, blocked by the electoral college, gets thwarted by the Supreme Court, still relies on the filibuster, abuses the outdated two senator per state concept, etc. However, these tired tropes, and narrow process-tinkerings take up too much of our time, energy, and focus.
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Elements like the filibuster and electoral college are artifacts of an old system. Unfortunately, and paradoxically, the Constitution is a socially fixed, and only grudgingly flexible document. Secondarily, the fixed or originalist faction is in a stronger position because it has nearly two and a half centuries of social, economic, and legal precedent undergirding, and weighing down our Constitution. I see the undergirding power less from having the legal perspective, as I do how it was socially influenced. Our Constitution was based to a large extent on a social perspective with an intertwining economic element.
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With slavery being one of the most substantial and infamous influences on its construction, from private property rights, and states’…
