"The Earth and everything that's in it": August 2, 2020

Sunday, August 2, 2020

"A vote (?) in the UNREPRESENTATIVE CORRUPT United States Senate (116th Congress (2019–2021) Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY))"

The United States is unavoidably ruled by an unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" senate MINORITY!!!!!

I was told in grammar school, the Senate was proposed as the United States' upper "House of Lords" to give small states a benevolent[1] voice on par with the larger ones.

Similarly, the filibuster was altruistically created to civilly administer the much-revered free speech in the "senate" i.e., cloture (Frank Capra "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" 1939).

BUT both small state representation and free speech have suffered as the result.

The Senate is an archaic un-representative corrupt political body. Yet everything done by the United States must pass the Senate. If we had known better, we should have done away with it after the civil War, with the other civil war constitutional amendments. The SENATE enabled slavery for 85 +/- years after the "Declaration of Independence" asserted "all men are created equal." England started the process of limiting their "House of Lords" as early as the Reform Act 1832.

At the start of the civil war there were 34 states, a filibuster required only 2/5 of the senators to block i.e., 11 states could filibuster anything and everything. With several states to be added in the near future, 11 states saw the righting on the wall and declared secession, starting the civil war and forming the Confederate States of America. They were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

Although our self-serving dubiously authorized[2] Supreme Court[3] has never acknowledged it, "We the People" went to war to preserve the "United States" over the issue of minority States Rights. Any CURRENT assertion of States Rights controlling the United States was for all time defeated by Abraham Lincoln's preservation of the Union with the ratification / investment of 618,222 United States lives in the civil war. We are the UNITED STATES.

As it has evolved, the smaller, less populous Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" states can dictate to the larger ones and the filibuster's super-majority empowers a MINORITY to negate anything.

A vote, in the United States Senate, from Wyoming or from California have the same authority. But a Senator from California represents 69 times as many people as the Senator from Wyoming. Per the 2020 census numbers[4] used for the apportionment for congress Wyoming has a population of 577,719, California has a population of 39,576,757. For every person in Wyoming there are ~69 people in California i.e, 39,576,757 divided by 577,719 = 69 (68.5052).

Wyoming is the least populated state in the country and has the same issue in the United States senate with population equity relative to every other state e.g., Missouri has 11 for every 1 in Wyoming. Kentucky has 8, Georgia has 19, Texas has 51, Florida has 37 etc.[5]

It is not about Political parties it is about the inequality of a potential Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" minority controlling the MAJORITY!!!

In today's senate it still takes 3/5 of the senators (60), to clear a filibuster, 2/5 +1 (41) of the senators to create a filibuster and block anything.

The population of the 21 smallest states[6] is 37,918,594 or 11% of the total population. Therefore, with a filibuster, 11% of the population can DICTATE negatively and stop 89% of the population from doing anything, with the filibuster.

Now you might mistakenly ASSUME that the 30 states and the 60 senators needed to overcome a filibuster would REQUIRE a majority. WRONG!!!! The 30 least populated states (60 senators) with a population of 80,549,406, amount to 24% of the total population. 24% can DO anything, overcoming any filibuster and dictating to the 76% of the population (251,261,002). The CORRUPTION and inequity of the FILIBUSTER is inescapable.

But it is not so much what the filibuster approves as what the filibuster can command by restricting the overwhelming MAJORITY'S will via negotiated extraction e.g., "We will not pass anything until you allow this evil!!!" We have too often written evil off to seemingly benign "horse trading", when the negotiations are distorted by a Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" CORRUPT United States minority ruled senate.

And it does not have to be EXACTLY 11% to control the 89%. It can unequally be anything unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" wants from 11% to 49% to unfairly control the 51% MAJORITY.

The filibuster while aggravating the inequity is not the only unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" issue for the United States Senate. EVEN WITHOUT the filibuster, the unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" senate is inherently and unavoidably un-equal. With strict majority rule in the senate, the 26 least populous states (52 senators) with a population of 58,902,718 (18% of the population) could do anything and the 24 largest states 272,907,690, 82% of the population are dictated to.

Note also that the minimums I have stated are just that minimums, where they should REQUIRE an actual 51% of the population to move a law forward or stop it in its tracks. The unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" Minority can and does RULE the United States, because of the CORRUPT unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" in the United States senate!!!!

Our Senate found it's model in the, House of Lord in England. England without a constitution has been able to weaken the House of Lords to honorary positions, establish the House of Commons as the controlling house. For the ONGOING good of Great Britain.

We need to put Mitch McConnel's unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" ilk out to pasture once and for all. The unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" complains about the opposition's failure while using the filibuster to thwart all action. We can do it with a constitutional amendment or do it as Britain's statesmen did with the concession of the upper house i.e., a REVERSE filibuster senate rule that limits the power of the smaller states.

Additionally, the Electoral College's unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" minority while unequal and unfair is not as bad. But less than a majority has elected 2 out of the last 4 presidents. It only takes a minimum 46% of the population to get 270 electoral votes to elect a president!!! NOTE: 2 out of 4 recent minority PRESIDENTS appointed 5 out of the 9 FOR LIFE Supreme court Judges via CORRUPT senate rules and unrepresentative "dark" Citizens United v. FEC created majorities!!!

As an example of what the historical CORRUPTION of the United States senate can do just consider the refusal to establish healthcare as a right, for undisputable economic and fairness reasons. Or the Fugitive Slave Laws in pre-civil war United States. Where "Free States" were forced to give up the sovereignty of the state's boarders, to allow outsiders to enslave their citizens, to pay the Federal Government's bills.

To sum this up it should equitably require 51% of the population at least to do anything, but:

A. The inherent inequality of the corrupt unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" senate, one Wyoming voter is worth ~69 California voters, or ~51 Texans, or ~11 Missourians, or ~15 Virginian or etc..

B. 11%-50% of the population 21 least populated dtstae (42 senators) can BLOCK anything and thus control EVERYTHING with the filibuster.

C. 24%-50% of the population 30 least populated states (60 senators) can overcome any filibuster and/or pass anything!

D. 18%-50% of the population could with the 26 least populated states (52 senators), even without the filibuster, confirm any Supreme Court nominee.

E. The SENATE is unavoidably FLAWED with or without the filibuster.

a. The TOTAL inequality of the corrupt unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" senate - one Wyoming voter is worth ~69 California voters - with the filibuster 11% of the population can BLOCK anything and thus control EVERYTHING - without the filibuster the 26 least populated states 18% of the population could do anything.

The numbers speak for themselves and are undisputable!!! The United States SENATE is an unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" CORRUPT body!!! The United States is not representative of its people.

As regards the unseen, Citizens United v. FEC "dark money." I offer up the example of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) with millions of, want-a-be sports fans. The WWE is an ADMITTED farce. The fans are all played, by EXAGGERATED and CONTRIVED theatrical event as a "darkly" asserted sporting event. But there is no competition, no SPORT, it is all a contrived theatrical event with predetermined winners and asserted villains. Our recent WWE Hall of Fame (2013) president (Trump) exemplifies this. There is a case to be made that the WWE fans were as easily manipulated by dark foreign forces (Russia/Putin) via their FAKE NEWS WEBSITES to vote for Trump, the pathological liar as president.

The United States is unavoidably ruled by an unrepresentative Citizens United v. FEC "dark money" senate MINORITY!!!!!

You want the NUMBERS, the proof?

Table 1. Apportionment Population and Number of Representatives by State: 2020 Census

For the simple arithmetic PROOF you can download the EXCEL spreadsheet here 2022 Census Congressional - Senate United States PUBLISHED

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And YES... "Jane Crow" discrimination is REAL = Jane Crow Discrimination = Fathers are disfavored by domestic relations law in the United States of America!

[1] Plato proposed philosopher kings were in 6^th Century. The rulers of the 18^th and 19^th asserted themselves as "benevolent dictators." Dictatorial rule itself to be unavoidably DESPOTIC in the 20^th century e.g. Mao Zedong, Hitler, Stalin… Civilized representative governments still struggle against the efficiencies of the populous dictatorial ruler.

[2] The Supreme Court in the recent West Virginia et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al. takes it on themselves to limit the executive. The Constitution and the statute in question both confer Executive Authority on the President. What the Supreme Court FAILS to acknowledge is the Article III Judicial Power is limited by petite juries' decision in all CASE as to the fact. Any and ALL attempts at stare decisis has to repeatedly reassert itself unencumbered by prior decisions of the petite jury. There is no CONSTITUTIONAL provision for stare decisis or Judge made law.

[3] To hear the Supreme Court, defend States Rights you would think we never fought a Civil War to preserve the United States' union. Additionally, the Supreme Court has for 200+ years IGNORE the We the People's premise in founding the UNION i.e., The Preamble to the constitution.

[4] Table 1. Apportionment Population and Number of Representatives by State: 2020 Census

[5] For the simple arithmetic you can download the EXCEL spreadsheet here 2022 Census Congressional - Senate United States PUBLISHED

[6] To make my argument arithmetically simpler to see, I am going to say that is takes 21 (42 senators) states not the smaller 20 ½ states (with only 41 senators) to create a filibuster.