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Amendment 4 is on the August 4 primary ballot in #Missouri. Short version: it ends the citizen initiative.

Missouri voters have used the ballot initiative process to pass #Medicaid expansion, end Missouri's #abortion ban, and raise the minimum wage. And now the #GOP state legislature wants to make it virtually impossible for citizen-initiated ballot initiatives to pass, while not subjecting legislature-initiated initiatives to the same standards. It's another example of #TheyCantWinSoTheyCheat.

Vote NO on Amendment 4.
Election Day: August 4
Early voting now through August 3.

https://www.protectmajorityrulemo.org/

#MOPol #BallotInitiative #MajorityRule

A quotation from Herman Hesse

Now the bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self (rudimentary as his may be). And so at the cost of intensity, he achieves his own preservation and security. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he does comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire. The bourgeois is consequently by nature a creature of weak impulses; anxious, fearful of giving himself away and easy to rule. Therefore, he has substituted majority for power, law for force, and the polling booth for responsibility.
 
[Der Bürger nun schätzt nichts höher als das Ich (ein nur rudimentär entwickeltes Ich allerdings). Auf Kosten der Intensität also erreicht er Erhaltung und Sicherheit, statt Gottbesessenheit erntet er Gewissensruhe, statt Lust Behagen, statt Freiheit Bequemlichkeit, statt tödlicher Glut eine angenehme Temperatur. Der Bürger ist deshalb seinem Wesen nach ein Geschöpf von schwachem Lebensantrieb, ängstlich, jede Preisgabe seiner selbst fürchtend, leicht zu regieren. Er hat darum an Stelle der Macht die Majorität gesetzt, an Stelle der Gewalt das Gesetz, an Stelle der Verantwortung das Abstimmungsverfahren.]

Herman Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss poet, novelist, painter
Steppenwolf, “Treatise of the Steppenwolf,” ch. 2 (1927) [tr Breighton (1929)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hesse-herman/82858/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hermanhesse #steppenwolf #bourgeois #calm #comfort #convenience #democracy #force #law #liberty #majorityrule #peaceandquiet #power #responsibility #security #selfpreservation #tyrannyofthemajority

Democracy is a three-body problem to orders of magnitude.
Newton's clean equations work with two bodies. Add a third, and chaos sets in—no stable orbit, no final answer. Condorcet showed the same instability in voting: even perfectly rational citizens can produce collective contradictions.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/03/democracy-and-the-millions-body-problem/

#Democracy #Governance #PoliticalTheory #Enlightenment #DecisionMaking #Philosophy #ThreeBodyProblem #MajorityRule #Elections #HumanCondition #politics #Science

#Democrat Governor of #NY openly threatens to collude with political allies and corruptly #Gerrymander her state #votingdistricts to match similar #GOP efforts to sway control over other states they hold thin #MajorityRule in.

#FightFireWithFire ?

Irish Times editorial on big powers' wish to remove national veto: If Simion prevails in the second round of the Romanian election, it will increase pressure to move to QMV. The move to QMV would pose enormous challenges for Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit... #EU #Veto #QMV #MajorityRule

The Irish Times view on qualif...

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Harper Lee

#quoteoftheday #majorityrule #conscience #BeingHuman

"It's majority rule, baby!"
#Democracy #MajorityRule #deletedScene #TimeOfMyLife #DirtyDancing

@georgetakei "If the majority does not control, the minority must ‑‑ would that be right? Would that be just or generous? Assuredly not!"

— Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, February 14, 1861 —

https://theconversation.com/abortion-rights-victories-show-this-issue-is-unlikely-to-fade-in-2024-elections-3-things-to-know-217249
#RuleOfLaw #SaveLives #DefendTheConstitution #MajorityRule #WomensRights #HumanRights #WomensSelfDetermination #AbortionRights #GOP #Insurrection #Rebellion

@marcelias I'd say it's rebellion 2.0 by former (?) slaveholder states.

They may see it being called "defiance" as weakness.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #VotingRights #MajorityRule

THERE ARE NOW *THREE* POLITICAL PARTIES in our federal gov't: #Democrats, #Republicans, and the #Maga Party (a breakaway faction of the #GOP.)

Our gov't was not designed to handle 3 Parties at once. It was designed as a "50%+1" #MajorityRule system.

If this is to continue, WE MUST switch to a #RankChoiceVoting system at ALL levels or it will become IMPOSSIBLE to govern, with no one Party ever able to pass legislation with over 50% of the vote (short of a landslide election.)

@fuzztech Americans threw out an army of foreign despots to gain independence, only to see units of domestic despots grow up to fight Americans' constitutionally enshrined self-determination, human & civil rights?
No way!
#MajorityRule #SupremacyClause #CommonGood #CommonGround #DefendDemocracy #HumanityMatters #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #FirstAmendment #BookBans #BookBurning #GOPInsurrection

@shsbxheb @cmeier @marcelias I agree. Looking back at the past general elections, "Republicans" haven't been able to win the popular votes for a long time.
It's a despotic minority defrauding voters & trying to destroy democracy, exactly like the co-founder of the former Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, predicted:

“If the majority does not control, the minority must ‑‑ would that be right? Would that be just or generous?
Assuredly not! If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.”

— Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, Feb 14, 1861 —

#RuleOfLaw #RuleOfThePeople #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #MajorityRule #Democracy #PopularVotes #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #FreeAndFairElections #GOP #Insurrection #UnelectableGOP #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #EnemiesOfTheConstitution

A party, that's working to kick out public servants not being partisans of their anti-constitutional, anti-democratic, voter-suppressing, elections-rigging organization is an inadmissible despotic entity!

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
— United States Declaration of Independence —

Just 5 weeks after newly elected state Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz took her seat on the bench, Gaga-MAGA insurrectionists can't let go of attempting to overthrow the will of the people again.

Fearing Justice Protasiewicz might rule against fraudulently gerrymandered electoral maps & in favor of legalizing abortion in Wisconsin in support of womens' rights to self-determination, the rebellious MAGA entity prepares to pervert justice to get Justice Protasiewicz impeached.

"If Wisconsin Republicans push forward with their cynical scheme, the voters will deliver their own verdict next year."

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/wisconsin-gops-impeachment-plan-another-maga-coup-against-democracy/
#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #MajorityRule #GOP #GagaMAGA #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #MinorityDespotism #ElectoralFraud #ObstructionOfJustice #PerversionOfJustice #DefraudingAmerica

A sad day for #ForcedBirthers and #autocrats as Ohio stands up for democracy (little dee) and #MajorityRule

@marcelias “The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”

— Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 —

"The Confederate rebellion was an assault by a minority on the decision of the majority, as expressed in Lincoln’s own election, and in that way, it was really intended to question the entire principle of democracy."

https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/lincoln-lore/lincoln-and-democracy/
#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #MajorityRule #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice #GOPElectoralFraud #Insurrection #Rebellion #Confedereds #DefraudingAmerica

@marcelias "Republicans" have an internalized "traditional" Electoral-Fraud problem.
They not only refuse to accept the will of the majority of eligible voters, following the footsteps of the confederate rebels, they deny the validity of majority rule as the foundation of United States' democracy.

And they're not at all ashamed of it.

#DefendAmerica #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Rebellion #MajorityRule #Democracy #United States #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether

@tultican I believe the following excerpt taken from an essay on Abraham Lincoln & his views of inalienable American democracy is an impressive approach to what today's rebellious "Republicans" (I call them Confedereds) are replaying in our time, following the traitorous, insurrectionary, evil & inhuman example of their Confederate ancestors:
A rebellion against the Constitution, the Union/ United States government & the U.S.'s Rule of the People aka democracy.

"The Confederate rebellion was an assault by a minority on the decision of the majority, as expressed in Lincoln’s own election, and in that way, it was really intended to question the entire principle of democracy."

https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/lincoln-lore/lincoln-and-democracy/
#DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #ReconstructionAmendments #BanTheGOP #NationalSecurityThreat #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy #Insurrection #Rebellion #Overthrow #MajorityRule

Help save #MajorityRule in #ohio

There are opportunities to get out the vote for August 8 in every part of the state - and remote opportunities to phone bank or write postcards worldwide!

Check out https://www.mobilize.us/events/ohio-volunteer-opportunities/ . You can use the map and/or filters button at the top to choose virtual events only, find in-person events near your location, and/or search for a particular organization.

Every bit counts. Thank you!!

@barb Wouldn't it be time for @NATO to think about 2-thirds-majority or even just simple-majority rule to avoid being the victim of extortion by 1 single member of the defense alliance, a dictatorial member regime, that doesn't even share the democratic values of the free world, but is all too eager to benefit from the free world's prosperity & advanced technologies it could even proliferate to the enemies of @NATO & the free world?
#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #StandWithFreedom #StandWithHumanity #StandWithUkraine #NATO #MajorityRule #Erdogan #Extortion #Bazaar #Corruption #Sweden #Finland

@DontMindMe A constitutional monarchy or democratic monarchy like the UK's may neither be mistaken for an absolutist monarchy like Saudi Arabia's, nor may democracy's dynamic development over time ever be seen as proof of lack of its capability to successfully defend against its despotic, tyrannical enemies.
History teaches lessons, & democry & democrats are able to learn. To defend!

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #RuleOfThePeople #MajorityRule #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter

@TonyStark Name one insurrectionist, who doesn't feel oppressed!

While accepting democracy's majority rule is in fact the only perceived unsurmountable problem today's tyrannical Confederate "Republicans" are having, in complete opposition to one of the founders of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln:

“If the majority does not control, the minority must ‑‑ would that be right?
Would that be just or generous? Assuredly not!”

— Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Steubenville, Ohio, Feb 14, 1861 —

Therefore, "GOP" rule, fraudulently achieved per voter suppression & intimidation, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement be it in states or nationwide, would neither be just nor generous.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #DefendTheConstitution #MajorityRule #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Rebellion

@susankitchens so if only 7 other folks, #republicans with a #conscience or independents, voted for #jeffries he would win. He already has the majority of the votes cast.
That would be cool. I thought #majorityRule was a good idea.