{"id":87746,"date":"2024-06-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87746"},"modified":"2024-06-14T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T22:40:05","slug":"minoritarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87746","title":{"rendered":"Minoritarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What&#8217;s the next front in the specious war on &#8220;white supremacy?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll come back to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Redundant And Extraneous<\/strong>:  Something I&#8217;ve always wondered about;  why does Minnesota have a Senate, but the Senate just replicates each pair of House districts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It give you all the disadvantages of a purely majoritarian unicameral legislature, which an added layer of bureaucracy which doesn&#8217;t actually protect the population from the tyranny of the majority.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve often thought it&#8217;d be best to make the legislature more analogous to the US Senate, including the focus on blunting the power of the pure majority &#8211; either 2-3 Senators per Congressional district, or one per County.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m not the only one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adversarial:  <\/strong>The move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dl-online.com\/news\/local\/is-the-1-county-one-senator-plan-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-for-minnesota\">give Minnesota a minoritarian, deliberative Senate has finally gotten a mention<\/a> out there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>That would shift power to lower-population counties, and make the Minnesota Legislature more like the U.S. Congress, with the House membership based on population proportionality and the Senate membership elected one per county, no matter how many people live in that county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe real problem is the representation in Minnesota,\u201d [propoenent Allen] Lysdahl told the Becker County Board during the open forum period on Tuesday, June 4. \u201dIt\u2019s either very concentrated in some areas or very diluted in others.\u201d The existing system is \u201cpure majority rule,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not conducive to good government \u2014 majority rule is like a lynch mob<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It would help the legislature bridge the tribal divides that currently slop most legislation into our current, useless three-person <em>junta<\/em>.  And it&#8217;d help prevent the orgy of one-sided spending caused by the Metro area&#8217;s stranglehold on the Legislature.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Smug Alert<\/strong>:  So you  <em>know <\/em>the DFL is going to hate it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minnesota Republicans keep losing elections because their agenda is unpopular \u2014 so now they want to rig the system. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jJSrY2hBhm\">pic.twitter.com\/jJSrY2hBhm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Minnesota DFL (@MinnesotaDFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/1801672592287232102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right &#8211; the party that gave us ranked choice voting, ballot harvesting and season-long early voting windows, and has spent this state into decline and oblivion, is complaining about &#8220;rigged elections&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suffice to say, I support it.  It will, of course, take a GOP trifecta, and a decisive one at that, to make it happen.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the next front in the specious war on &#8220;white supremacy?&#8221; We&#8217;ll come back to that. Redundant And Extraneous: Something I&#8217;ve always wondered about; why does Minnesota have a Senate, but the Senate just replicates each pair of House districts? 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