DEMOCRACY:
Government & Politics | August 17, 2003
WHATEVER
HAPPENED
TO
MAJORITY
RULE?
An
Unpublished Letter to Los Angeles Times
Whatever
happened to majority -- or even plurality -- rule?
With a two-thirds
"super majority" required to pass a state budget, the
GOP minority has tied the hands of the Democratic majority in
Sacramento, effectively holding the entire state of California
hostage, our deficits and services growing worse with each
passing year.
Governor Davis
(a.k.a. "No" on the recall) has been polling at
upwards of 40%, and he could still lose his job to someone who
gets just over 20% of the vote.
Al Gore got more
votes for President than anyone else in American history and
still lost.
I'm fully aware of
how all of this has been perfectly legal. But speaking on
behalf of us millions of citizens whose will is being
continually thwarted -- let alone the hundreds of thousands of
men and women in uniform who paid the ultimate sacrifice or who
are right now putting their lives on the line in large measure
for our right to vote -- isn't this supposed to be a Democratic
Republic?
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