<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 5:36 PM BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> <i>if it is just the total number of votes that is used the result is<br>that one area of the country gets the right to decide how the other<br>area should be governed.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">There is simply no way to get around that, in no form of government can everybody get their way. However it would be possible and would be nice if the area of the country the tells the other area what to do be the larger part. But in the USA that is not the case, the minority of the country gets to tell the majority of the country who will be the President, who will be a Senator, and even who will be a member of the House Of Representatives which is supposed to be the most democratic but due to gerrymandering isn't very representative or democratic at all. And by the way, in the USA the minority that has the power also happens to be the least educated.</font><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Note: When I said "suposed to be" I mente according to the Constitution. But as a practical matter the Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says it means, and now that it's full of the president's toadies and the chief law enforcement officer of the land the Attorney General (the new one that looks like Curley in the 3 stooges) is also a Trump stooge the Constitution is not going to protect us.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>It could lead to breakup of the UK or secessions in the USA.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">If a minority in a country feels they are being treated unfairly that can cause some political instability, but if a majority feels that way it will cause vastly more.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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