Should California Threaten Secession To Abolish Electoral College?

[eniwetok]

230. there's middle ground

A threatened secession can also be used to strong arm congress and the states to just pass an amendment. But, yes, I'm aware of the alleged dangers of a constitutional convention. And yet... this is the fear libs always have... and yet it's also something libs never work on to get out of this trap. So 50 years from now... as demographics makes the Constitution more and more antidemocratic and therefore more reformproof... and while corporate personhood is more deeply entrenched... libs then are still going to be saying we dare not push for a convention.

Back in the mid 1970s... largely in response to the Powell memo, the far right created a long term, multi-front strategy to mold the US to their benefit. And gee, in combination with an antidemocratic national system, IT'S WORKED. In contrast, liberal Dems are a cowardly lot. Where is their strategic offensive against antidemocratic government that has given us both the Bush and Trump Juntas? Where is the plan to make democratic reforms to the Constitution possible? While the far right had a long term strategy... Dems tend to think in terms of just the next presidential election and thing demographics will win them the day. In this regard Dems are idiots. Those 2.8 million extra HRC voters got her nothing. And where are liberal Dems standing on principle? They'll get all riled up about bathrooms and be blind to how the very federal system discriminates against citizens voting power based on their choice of state residence... and as long as the voting power is rigged... the system is rigged... and Dems better finally wake up from their coma.