Is the USA a DINO?

Donald Trump won the 2024 election by 1.5 million votes with just 32% of the electorate voting for him. On a different day, or with different messaging, Kamala Harris could have had more votes than Donald Trump. It was that close. The 37% who chose not to vote for either candidate were the biggest voting bloc.

In a winner take all environment however, President Trump chooses nearly everybody in "Powerful Few Zone" and guarantees that for 4 years his unique style of governing is the law (almost) and that at least ⅔ of American voters are dissatisfied. Love him or loathe him, President Trump makes the drawbacks of the Traditional Governance Model in a Democracy very obvious.

Three elements drive democracy in the US: the Constitution, power and money. The political system, as set up at the end of the 18th Century, is by definition antiquated, has been gamed, nearly out of all recognition.

Yes, the USA is a democracy in name only.

A Dozen US Democracy Drawbacks

(You can probably think of more!)

1. The Electoral College - deliberately put in place by the Founders to buffer total democracy it it means a candidate with fewer votes can still win
2. Winner take all - see above
3. Rule by Executive Order (similar to a King’s Decree) - President Trump uses EOs to claim power for himself, at the expense of a compliant Congress
4. Voters are excluded for 4 years while daily access is given to all manner of people with interests not necessarily in alignment with the Powerless Many
5. Parties - not envisioned by the Founders - control the choice of candidates and who wins the primaries. And there are only two of them.
6. Representative democracy - some representatives do have voters at heart, many don’t
7. Super PACS - advantage is given to those with deepest pockets
8. Gerrymandering - changing the boundaries to make safe seats (politicians choose the voters rather than the other way round)
9. Short-termism - the goal is to gain/keep power in the next election, not do your best for the country
10. Wealth accrual - appears to be done on a large scale in 2025 contrary to the emoluments clause of hte Constitution
11. Widespread use of propaganda/negative advertising/lies to destroy your enemy
12. Delayed accountability - in 2026 there are the mid-term elections, which are normally a referendum on the the President. However, even if power in Congress changes, rule by Executive Order will continue.

In short, democracy, as practised in the US, is really about power and money. Power gives access to money; money gives access to power. The rules of democracy under the Constitution lost to the lust for power and money. The system has been gamed by the very people who swore to uphold it.

History Repeating

Remember the causes of the 1776 revolutions in France and Britain? They were: unfair taxation without representation, high debt levels and resistance by those in power to social change. Those elements are all present in the US today.

Without some sort of system reinvention, the seeds of a 21st Century revolution are being sown.

To avoid the next bloody revolution (and with 400 million guns in the US, it will be bloody) we need an alternative. More than that, we need a peaceful new way to create a real democracy in the US - Citizen-led Democracy. That's the role of GenR Rising.

Imagine

Imagine there's a possibility that the game can change and real democracy replaces the DINO. Does that idea appeal to you?

And would you like to be an early adopter of the new game?

One More Thing

Caution! Genius at work!
Prince lets everybody know what he thinks of politicians...

Are you ready for a change?