As occasionally mentioned, we’re also a Republic. Not a Parliamentary system, but a winner-take-all, our choice quickly becomes binary.. One of our two parties figured out, if they divide and motivate … while discouraging voter participation, though a ‘minority party,’ they can win. They have.

Vote-by-mail is a perfect example of the fears of that minority party. My home state has been voting entirely by mail for over two decades, it works. But given our minority party’s previous wins and current positions of power, they’ve no intention of allowing any change that would increase voting. In fact, their members on our Supreme Court recently revoked (in 2013) federal voting guidelines enacted during the sixties to assure minority voters were not excluded…

The only answer is to support their opposition, at every election. If done consistently, for decades, the imbalance would be corrected, the minority party would be forced to clean up it’s act, and Democracy could flourish. Until then ..more of the same ~

(from whatwouldthefoundersthink.com)

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Franklin was queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation. In the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, a lady asked Dr. Franklin “Well Doctor what have we got, a republic or a monarchy.” Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”