This might be a way to avoid either incoming civil war in America or totalitarianism and do it with a failing traditional two-party electoral system.
It starts with electing the US Congress mostly those who understand the danger of civil war or totalitarianism when the nation’s majority is forced to live by hostile morals imposed on them by the government to please a minority. The nation can be peaceful and stable only when the government only legislates what the majority supports.
In unfriendly diverse nation such as the nowadays USA the majority on any legislative proposal could be easily found by numerous American public opinion pollsters.
Let us say the federal government announces it wants to define legislatively marriage, or gender, or students’ loan forgiveness, or shutting down coal/nuclear-powered energy production, or eliminating perceived discrimination on something, or preventing climate change … or whatever it might be. Together with such an announcement the government should present a description of taxpayers’ gains and tax-$$$ losses for an ordinary citizen for each ‘want.’ Then, with the focus on this information, public opinion pollsters conduct the polls.
If the polls find the majority in support of a “want’, the government may legislate this ‘want.’ If the majority is not found, the federal government does not legislate. Why? – Because it will force the majority to live by what it considers sinful, and that is a prescription for a civil war or dictatorship.
What minorities (racial, religious, economic, sexual, etc.) are fighting for might be legislated at a local level (states, counties, municipalities, cities) where a local minority may have local majority’s support.
All localities are different in their normative public behavior, as it should be in true democracy: California is different from Florida, Minneapolis is different from Dallas, Northern Chicago suburbs are different from Southern ones …
All the rest of what is related to human behavior is left to the judgement of local religious, community and social organizations and individuals (individuals with guns to be ready to resist the government).
Churches, synagogues, mosques, various human-rights groups are morally qualified to make a non-legal judgement on individual moral behavior in their communities.
If all that is implemented,
Judeo-Christian equality of opportunities will be secured,
and Marxist equality of economic results will be prevented.
If that is implemented,
The political parties will not decide the nation’s fate
(They are always interested in gaining more power)
The nation’s fate will be decided by the citizen’s religious and social institutions
(They are mostly fighting for citizen’s wellbeing)
And if all that is implemented,
the US Constitution will be pleased.
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If all that is implemented,
Judeo-Christian equality of opportunities will be secured,
and Marxist equality of economic results will be prevented.
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If that is implemented,
the political parties will not decide the nation’s fate
(And that is good because they are always interested in gaining more power)
The nation’s fate will be decided by citizen’s religious and social institutions
which are mostly fighting for citizen’s wellbeing.
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And if all that is implemented,
the US Constitution will be pleased.
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Information in support of all in the above
Click on A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies | D | USAGov
That is a list of US Government departments and agencies.
Thousands of them!
And each of them consumes millions of US taxpayers’ $$$.
An ordinary citizen, and thus the citizens’ majority, cannot answer the question of how the taxpayer’s money consumed by most of these departments and agencies benefit taxpayers.
Therefore, the American majority would support transferring the tasks of many (or most) of federal departments and agencies to authority of the states where many of them might be cancelled by the states.
Result? The federal government budget is sharply reduced, balanced and on the way to quick debt repayment.
Federal taxation of ordinary citizens is reduced and reduced significantly.
Ordinary citizens would have more money to spend on what is important to them, not to the government (better housing, food, travel, entertainment, education, charity, etc.)
Of course, the states and local governments would collect more money for local public expenses and order, but it would be much less than what the federal government collects.
Many do not trust public pollsters because those who distrust rightly believe that the leftist and rightist pollsters are polling different public communities. That is true but there is a scientific solution to this challenge, and that is to combine the results of leftist and rightist polls in one trustworthy poll.
I’m on board except for the pollsters idea. I currently disregard polls because I am rarely asked my opinion in one, and because the few I have encountered have obvious bias built into the wording of the question. Polls would then become the equivalent of voting in which ingenious schemes would be cooked up to skew honest results.
There is a simple solution – to ask many liberal and conservative pollsters to make their polls, and then analyze the differences, which are the result of polling diverse groups, and then mix them scientifically.