MSNBC host Joy Reid’s comments about rural America are stunning in their arrogance, ignorance
For the last several years, Democrats have been complaining about the constitution. While they lament Donald Trump's supposed disregard for the constitutional processes in the United States, they have been trying to delegitimize the fifty states as semi-sovereign powers in our federal system.
Democrats do not like that states are not just administrative subdivisions of Washington and they hate that the Senate has legitimacy.
This is the core threat to our democracy. The rural minority -- the people @JYSexton just wrote a long thread about -- have and will continue to have disproportionate power over the urban majority. https://t.co/fzBHaZ9kzR
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 26, 2017
By 2040, about 70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators representing them. https://t.co/f1SibnIGHv
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 25, 2017
In fact, Joy Reid of MSNBC is on social media calling rural Americans a "core threat" to our democracy. Note the following tweets below:
Both Kyle Griffin's original tweet and Reid's response highlight a core threat to our constitutional system: basic ignorance. The several states formed the national government, ceding certain powers outlined in Section 8 of the first article of the constitution. They kept the rest of the powers for themselves. This is and has always been our basic constitutional system. We are a republic with representative democracy components in its operation.
Both Kyle Griffin's original tweet and Reid's response highlight a core threat to our constitutional system: basic ignorance.
Tragically, in a fit of progressivism in the early part of the 20th century, the constitution was amended to allow for the direct election of senators instead of by appointment through state legislative processes. This allowed the federal government to become even more important. The ultimate solution for campaign finance reform is to actually repeal the 17th amendment and force the left and right to fight at the state level.
Notwithstanding that, to have a national "news" host call rural America a "core threat" to our democracy is both striking arrogance and striking ignorance. Also, as with gun rights, it would require a dramatic constitutional overhaul. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/11/27/msnbc-host-joy-reid-s-comments-about-rural-america-are-stunning-in-their-arrogance-ignorance.html
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Funny how this article has several quotes and twitter messages from several people but the only one that is singled out is Reid's......why is that?
And just how is her message arrogant or ignorant when it is factually correct?
The Democratic Party deliberately abandoned rural America. Now they label them a "core threat". I keep thinking there is hope for the D's to get their shit together, but they just keep doubling down on failed approaches.