Democratic Reforms Held Hostage To Absurd Amendment Process

[eniwetok]

47. perhaps if you read the thread..

You're somehow making it sound as if I want an easy amendment process. No. I want a DEMOCRATIC process based on how PEOPLE vote... not states.

eniwetok (576 posts)
28. I have NO problems with making amendments difficult

Sure, amendments should be well considered, have popular support, and that should support must be constant over some period of time. What we ALL should object to is a process that is so antidemocratic it makes serious reforms impossible... a process that allows ultra tiny minorities to hold the process hostage... and is so poorly thought out it can allow for amendments that were only approved my a MINORITY of Americans.

And yes, we have to worry about the GOP holding the presidency and Congress. BUT WOULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED IF WE HAD A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM? I haven't done a recent popular vote total of the Senate... but we KNOW Trump would never be president in a democratic system.

So we can use the fact that the GOP has power through antidemocratic means to stop us from moving on reforms... because the trends against future reforms are there... growing corporate power and an increased population differential between big and small states.