If Only We Had Free Elections in America

American "Democracy" is Near Death 

American candidates of both parties no longer represent local voters. They are bought and paid for by Billionaire Cartels of open borders Wall Street interests.

Our elections are a sham.  Because of the massive size of districts only candidates who are millionaires or those funded by Billionaire Cartels have any chance of being elected.

And those wealthy special interests want to be paid back out of the US Treasury.

 
The U.S. is the only nation on earth where the same two corrupt parties "magically" win 100% of all elections.

Until our election system is reformed to allow for real competition and real voter choices, Americans are doomed to be ruled by a bought and paid for Elite.

This is what a FREE election looks like

I love that the corrupt open borders and authoritarian Conservative Party came in 5th place while a brand new party of patriot Nationalists comes in 1st winning 29 seats.

Results of the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

Party		Alliance	Votes			Seats
			Number	%	+/-	Seats	+/-	%
	Brexit Party	EFDD	5,248,533	30.52	new party	29	new party
	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	3,367,284	19.58		16	15
	Labour Party	S&D	2,347,255	13.65		10	10
	Green Party of England and Wales	G/EFA	2,023,380	11.76		7	4
	Conservative Party	ECR	1,512,147	8.79		4	15
	Scottish National Party	G/EFA	594,553	3.46		3	1
	Plaid Cymru	G/EFA	163,928	0.95		1
	Sinn Féin	GUE/NGL	126,951	0.74		1
	DUP	NI	124,991	0.73		1
	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	ALDE	105,928	0.62		1	1
	Change UK	EPP[party 1]	571,846	3.32	new party	0	new party
	UK Independence Party	EAPN[party 2]	554,463	3.22		0	24
	SDLP	S&D	78,589	0.46		0
	Traditional Unionist Voice	NI	62,021	0.36		0
	Ulster Unionist Party	ECR	53,052	0.31		0	1
	Yorkshire Party	G/EFA	50,842	0.30		0
	English Democrats	N/A	39,938	0.23	0.6	0
	UK European Union Party	N/A	33,576	0.20	new party	0	new party
	Animal Welfare Party	N/A	25,232	0.15		0
	Women's Equality Party	N/A	23,766	0.14	new party	0	new party
	Independent Network	N/A	7,641	0.04		0
	Socialist Party of Great Britain	N/A	3,505	0.02		0
	Independent	N/A	80,280	0.47	0.5	0
Valid Votes			17,199,701

Results of the election by seats, with constituencies shaded by the highest polling party.

(2019 European Parliament election)

From Sargon of Akkad

UKIP Candidate for Parliament

A 19th Century Political Stump Speech
Unlike today, true democracy existed in 19th Century America.  Because the size of House districts was small the main expense a candidate had was to open a few kegs of beer, jump on the nearest tree stump and explain his positions to voters who may or may not have been sober.  It is the opinion of many that a candidate sounds better with every additional beer.
.In the early Republic House districts had about 30,000 people.  Voters could easily meet their candidate without millions in corrupt special interest money being spent.

Reform Our Elections

"THE SECOND charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be too small to possess a due knowledge of the interests of its constituents. . . . The House of Representatives as above explained it seems to give the fullest assurance, that a representative for every THIRTY THOUSAND INHABITANTS will render the latter both a safe and competent guardian of the interests which will be confided to it."

- - - - The Federalist Papers #56

71% of Millennials Want Third Political Party

U.S. Democracy is an Illusion

• Poll after poll says Americans on both the Left and the Right are sick to death of the bought and paid for "major" parties and the lack of voter choices.
• But year after year goes by and voters are force fed the same two corrupt parties. No other choices are allowed. 
• Election Reform  -  American voters no longer have any representation in our own government. Local voters are given the "right" to select which bought and paid for candidate of the Billionaire Cartels will represent them. No more than that.

(Newsmax)  -  Seventy-one percent of millennials say a third political party is needed, while just 26 percent say the Republican and Democratic parties do an adequate job, a new NBC News/GenForward poll reveals.

Here is how the poll of millennials breaks down:

• 74 percent of men say a third party is needed;
• 69 percent of women believe a third party is necessary;
• 59 percent have an unfavorable view of the Republican Party;
• 42 percent have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party;
• 60 percent disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job;
• 63 percent disapprove of the way President Donald Trump is handling his job; 22 percent approve and 15 percent say they neither approve nor disapprove.

The poll, conducted Oct. 26-Nov. 10. surveyed 1,876 adults between the ages of 18 and 34.  The margin of error is plus or minus 3.92 percentage points.

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Free Elections in Algeria

But NOT in the United States

Algeria is authoritarian, but there are a lot more choices on their ballot than in the U.S.

Every democratic nation on earth, except the U.S., has free multi-party elections with many different political parties in their legislatures. The election below in Algeria is only one of dozens of examples. Meanwhile here in the U.S. the same two corrupt parties magically win 100% of elections for Congress.

In the early American Republic multi-party elections were common. Today only those candidates willing to be bought and paid for are allowed to enter the halls of Congress. To say the U.S. needs election reform is an understatement.
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I supported Nationalist Donald Trump, but for years I have refused to vote for the open borders Republican Party candidates for Congress. 

In any other nation I could vote for a Nationalist Party . . . not in America. So I have no party to vote for. I will leave the office of Congressman blank on my ballot in 2018.

Parliament in Algeria

Many, many different political parties are elected

Algerian Legislative Elections

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/-
	National Liberation Front	1,681,321	25.99	164	–44
	National Rally for Democracy	964,560	14.91	100	+32
	MSP–FC	393,632	6.09	33	–
	Rally for Hope for Algeria	270,112	4.18	19	New
	Future Front	265,564	4.11	14	+12
	Algerian Popular Movement	241,087	3.73	13	+6
	Ennahda–FJD	239,148	3.70	15	–
	Workers' Party	191,965	2.97	11	–13
	Socialist Forces Front	152,489	2.36	14	–13
	National Republican Alliance	121,156	1.87	6	+4
	Freedom and Justice Party	88,418	1.37	2
	New Dawn	82,993	1.28	1
	Dignity Party	81,180	1.26	3
	Movement for National Reform	77,290	1.19	1	–
	El Fath	69,063	1.07	1
	Rally for Culture and Democracy	65,841	1.02	9	+9
	National Front for Social Justice	63,827	0.99	1
	Party of Youth	63,682	0.98	2
	Movement of National Understanding	51,960	0.80	4
	New Algeria Front	49,413	0.76	1
	Ahd 54	42,160	0.65	2	–1
	Republican Patriotic Rally	40,645	0.63	2	0
	El-Infitah Movement	38,061	0.59	2	+1
	National Struggle Front	34,695	0.54	2
	Union of Democratic and Social Forces	33,372	0.52	1	–2
	National Front for Freedom	31,976	0.49	1
	Free Democratic Front	28,790	0.45	2
	National Party for Solidarity and Development	28,617	0.44	2	–2
	Party of Algerian Renewal	24,584	0.38	1	0
	National Assembly Union	17,577	0.27	1
	National Union for Development	15,037	0.23	1
	National Movement of Algerian Workers	14,369	0.22	1
	Movement of Free Citizens	14,085	0.22	1	0
	Equity and Proclamation Party	13,400	0.21	1
	Algerian National Front	876,111	13.54	0	–9
	Other parties			0	–
	Independents			28	+10
Invalid/blank votes		1,757,043	–	–	–
Total		8,225,223	100	462	0
Registered voters/turnout		23,251,503	37.37	–	–
Source: Constitutional Council

Algerian legislative election, 2017
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People's National Assembly

How the 17th Amendment Ruined the Senate

The Constitutional Convention

Direct Election of Senators

Government of, by and for the Oligarchs

• The Constitution as created by Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party was destroyed in 1913 by allowing the direct election of Senators by voters rather than by state legislatures.
• Now Senators no longer represent their state. Instead they are little more that the bought and paid for tools of one or another unelected Oligarch Wall Street faction.
• It is even worse in the House. Districts have grown so large and only millionaires or those accepting millions in special interest cash have any chance of getting elected.

(Tenth Amendment Center)  -  With the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill to repeal Obamacare flaming out, not even getting a vote, one might wonder whether it was a lousy bill or if something else were amiss. As the bill seemed like pretty decent legislation, its failure to get a vote may be due to what the U.S. Senate has become. 

Today’s Senate is populated with careerists: professional politicians. Such politicians can be more attuned to the interests of their donors than to those of their constituents. . . . 

If you don’t like that your U.S. senators are breaking their promises to you, then you might start blaming yourself, because with the 17th Amendment in 1913 we started electing U.S. senators by popular vote. You, dear voter, have been sending the same people back to Congress year after year, to the point that we’ve actually had a senator or two whose age was in excess of 100. It’s as though the Senate were an episode of Survivor.

If you think that the 17th Amendment was a mistake that should be repealed, then you’re probably going to need to convene the states, as provided for by Article V, because there’s little chance that sitting congressmen are going to initiate an amendment to repeal the 17th. Good luck.

The original character of the Senate and the intent of the Founders was laid out in The Federalist in Nos. 62, 63, 64,65, 66, 75, and 76. In Federalist No. 62 we read:

In this spirit it may be remarked, that the equal vote allowed to each State is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual States, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty. […]

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of the Senate is, the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence, first, of a majority of the people, and then, of a majority of the States.

So the House of Representatives is the People’s house, and the Senate is the house of “the several States.” But that was before the passage of the 17th Amendment, which changed the character of the Senate. Now, U.S. senators answer to the People, not their state legislatures. On Obamacare repeal, Sen. McCain is at odds with his State and its residents. 

Arizona has experienced Obamacare premium hikes of more than 100 percent, but Sen. McCain is more interested in “process,” “regular order,” and some ethereal bipartisanship (with the Hun, no less) than he is in getting a little relief to his constituents in Arizona.

Democrats often bemoan the money in politics. If U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures, wouldn’t there much less of a need for campaign money. The 17th Amendment was a mistake and should be repealed because it changed the character of the Senate. Senators are now “freelancers,” and don’t need to worry about the wrath of the voters until just before the next election. The U.S. Senate has become a club, and it’s a club that isn’t very responsive to the folks. Their job in life is first to raise money for their reelection campaigns, and second to make laws for the rest of us to live by, laws that don’t apply to U.S. senators.

The repeal of the 17th might also contain the right of state legislatures to recall their senators if they aren’t voting in the interests of their state. With such a recall mechanism, Sens. Collins and McCain could be relieved of their duties for their opposition to Graham-Cassidy by their state legislatures. In recent years, several states have been underrepresented because their senator had suffered an aneurysm, stroke, or brain cancer. But there’s no mechanism to replace them, so the state suffers. The 25th Amendment (Section 4) allows us to relieve of his duties a president who is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” but we have no such avenue for incapacitated senators. Recall by state legislatures would also be useful for senators who are just too old, like Strom Thurmond.

If you’d like your state legislature to be able to ensure that you’re fully represented in the Senate by being able to recall and replace ailing senators, then you’ll most likely need to convene the states by way of Article V because sitting senators will likely never approve of such a thing. Good Luck.

There needs to be a great deal more turnover and churn in the Senate. For the last 104 years, since the ratification of the 17th Amendment, the low rate of turnover has been largely due to voters; they send the same people back to D.C. election after election. They do this because their senators “bring home the bacon,” and give them “free stuff.” But the Senate has become dysfunctional, swampy, and corrupt, (see Bob Menendez). Because the amendment avenue for fixing the Senate is so daunting, it is left to you, dear voter, to change that body. And the way to do that is to throw the careerist bums out in the caucuses and primaries.

In 1787, the Founders gave us a stable, sound, and solid system, but the tinkering and tweaks since haven’t always improved that system. By not even proceeding to debate on Graham-Cassidy, it may be time to retire this description of the U.S. Senate: “The world’s greatest deliberative body.”

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