The Silenced Majority

Democrats must be the anti-corruption party.

“Affirmative action of a kind is built into our political system. The drafters of the Constitution did not have the term “diversity, equity and inclusion” at hand, but how else do you describe a system that gives two senators and at least three Electoral College votes to a state that based on population qualifies for only one member of the House of Representatives? Our Constitution does not lecture Wyoming, Alaska, the Dakotas, Vermont and Delaware to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and do a better job of competing for residents with states like California and New York in order to earn their disproportionate representation.”

This piece is important. Worth considering: the patients discussed here are very unlikely to vote, let alone politically organize or advocate.

Tim Wu's piece is not new, but it's very true.

NYT: If America Had Six Parties, Which Would You Belong To?

US population density as peaks.