Absolutely brilliant, promise something that already is in place. 
This is the weakness of democracy, the uneducated leading the blind, lots of noise witout hearing or seeing anything. I remember when we said 'hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing. Now it’s hear nonsense, see wierd stuff, shout alot.
And your alternative is…?
Democracy in itself is the best political system yet devised, but is more an ideal than a reality. It has become so corrupted in the US as to no longer deserve the name.
The US was never a ‘pure’ democracy. From it’s inception it devised a way to protect , preserve and promote white hegemony. Today’s GOP has taken that to a whole new level with gerrymandering and voter suppression. If they passed a meaningful Voting Rights act Republicans would never hold office again , not until they actually focussed on appealing to the nation as a whole.
Edit : I didn’t spot the article you posted. I imagine it’s saying something similar , although much more eloquently. I will take a look now.
Living up to your name 
Nor was Athens, but the initial idea of one man one vote was the basis on which further refinements were added. The US was founded by a white slave owning elite, but the ideals of of liberty and equality were clearly stated in its founding documents. Democracy is an ideal to be worked on continuously and it develops to reflect the situation at the time. This is a strength. If it becomes stuck, as it is in the US, it ceases to work.
Read this entire thread. Then if you find it interesting, read the article. For me it is very interesting and also very , very frightening.
Claremont Institute have written a recipe for a Neo-Fascist uprising, leading to revolution and a coup.
One man one vote is an excellent idea. It is how that vote is used where it all falls apart. Instead of it being used as a way to benefit and improve your own communities, your own neighbourhoods your own social networks, it has been derailed by an abstract concept of nationhood and globalisation. This is true in most western democracies.
I once saw an interview with a guy in New York who was asked about a particular situation occurring in California - his reply was more or less " what the fuck has that got to do with me?" And he was right - 99% of issues that occur in LA or Phoenix or Seattle etc do not impact the average New Yorker and vice versa.
Life for a Danish dairy farmer is very different to that of an Italian olive grower and yet they are bound by rules and treaties and ideas emanating from Brussels. Look at how the regions of Britain have been disproportionately financed for decades compared to London and the South East. All examples of how a centralised elected group wields power but not to the benefit of a diverse electorate.
This whole interconnectedness does not benefit the average person - it benefits corporations and the powerful.
A possible alternate system is one where smaller regions become autonomous - make their own rules and regulations. Trade independently - it can work and in UK some powers have been devolved to the countries making up the UK - further devolution of power is required. Then your vote will really count.
I agree to some extent. The nation state is a very problematic construct. Many international borders are random results of historical accidents, some countries contain multitudes of languages and cultures, others are extremely homogenous. How are China and India single countries equal to Andorra and Lesotho? Ideally there would be much more local control over local issues.
However, there are a number of important issues, climate change and the pandemic are the most obvious recent examples, where the effects and response demand international cooperation and common policies and agreements. There needs to be a combination of devolution and cooperation.
I don’t know who the average person is, but I’d argue that global developments have benefited all of us to some extent over a long period of time. Would any of us give up eating potatoes, tomatoes or pasta? The global flow of goods, people and ideas has led to many of the advances we have made in science, medicine, culture and thought and turning our backs on all that would not be beneficial in my opinion.
Trump not releasing docs pertaining to Jan 6 has one more court to go to, and then presumably the Supreme Court after that. It will be interesting to see what happens then, since he installed 3 of the justices and it is a 6-3 court at present. I can easily see the ruling being some watered down version of transparency, effectively protecting Trump. I can easily see the case not being treated with urgency and being delayed, effectively protecting Trump.
If what Trump did is out in the open, exposed for the electorate to see, I still think it would be a close election, should he run again in 2024, such is the degree to which America has lost the plot.
https://conservapedia.com/President_of_the_United_States_of_America#Presidents_list
This is just funny
James Buchanan “left”
Biden “far left”
The most hilarious thing here is actually Theodore Roosevelt “center”.
What about the footnotes!
1 There is doubt as to the legitimacy and legality of Obama’s claim to the Presidency due to his refusal to disclose his legitimate birth records (the fraudulent “birth certificate” he released notwithstanding, later complicated by his own admission that he originally came from Kenya[2][3]) and his history prior to his announcing his plan to run for President as a Democrat candidate in 2007. He has determined to keep his records sealed because revelation of such would reveal that, under Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution (which prohibits those who are not natural-born United States citizens from eligibility for the office of President), he was not only not eligible to hold the office but was ineligible to even run for the Presidency, thereby making both his Presidential run and his subsequent assumption of the office illegal under the Constitution. As such, Obama’s ineligibility to run for or hold the office of President would mean that the United States of America did not have a legitimate executive from January 20, 2009 (the day that Obama assumed the office[4]) until January 20, 2017 when Donald Trump was sworn into office.
2 Due to massive amounts of voter fraud committed by the Democrats and their operatives in the 2020 election, many people do not recognize Biden as a legitimate “president”.
Look at the footnotes - disputing the legitimacy of the last 2 democratic party presidents due to questionable citizenship status and voter fraud 
too sad
Yet ironically George W Bush and George H Bush are both “moderate right”
Taking this at a face value the page doesn’t deserve, it does raise the issue of labelling historical figures when these lines change over time, ad sometimes rapidly in short order. Nixon created the EPA, which is now very antagonistic to what most think the right wing aligned party now promotes. But lots os stuff has changed far more recently than that. Daddy bush famously publicly condemned the NRA for their response to Columbine. Hell, even on issues on Climate change the Bush Sr white house was relatively aligned with mainstream science.
Very glad that this * now faces the flashback of his despicable ways. Hopefully he’ll be punished as he deserves.
Unlikely. He’ll use the opportunity for self promotion no doubt.
America needs its own scale for left-right politics.
Everything is so far to the right, by European standards, that Biden would be center-right and AOC maybe center-left.
The most moderate Republican would be far right.