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Celerity

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5. when (I refuse to say IF) we claw back to power, we need to start to deconstruct the imperial
Sun May 26, 2019, 07:21 PM
May 2019

presidency, and de-fang the ultra-concentrated power positions like AG.

I am fairly certain I will never get my wish, as the power superstructure will self-preserve.

If we do not at least do a little there, plus add PR, DC, and maybe split California into 2, so 3 new states (thus yielding 6 new Dem Senators and pushing back on the demographic constitutional nightmare of 30% (whiter, far more rural, older, more RW, more fundie xian, less educated than the other 70%) of the population controlling 70% of the Senate seats by the mid-2030's or so), plus vastly expand the House to over 1001 (at bare minimum, and then much more fairly distribute the seats to the huge states, thus sorting the EC far more than it is at present), and add 6 new SCOTUS justices, the medium to long term event horizon is looking so fucked.

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