Mark,

I don't know if this was part of the original question, but I'd be curious to get your take on this. What do you think can be done about the points you made in your post?

In your point of view, this is a limited democracy. I think that's very true, and actually exactly what the founding fathers wanted. This is why they set up the electoral system, so that even if 100% of the people in a state vote for candidate A, the state's electoral votes can still go to candidate B. How would you change this system?

Is the best way to change it from the inside or the outside? Sometimes, the only way is from the outside. The only way the Civil Rights movement could have worked was from the outside. I don't know who the representation in Congress was at the time, but I'm sure there were either very few or no people of color in Congress. There is no way this movement could have succeeded if they had attempted to change the system from the inside out. They could not even get representation inside the system.

For reform such as what it appears you want in your post, how do you think we could change our government?

-Britt