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What does NZ have to consider if Trump does become president? What ideas might become policy and what what might lack support? This analysis from the US is worth a close read.

#politics #unitedstates Start watching the attached video of Republican contender Nikki Haley’s speech in South Carolina at the 30 minute mark after the news media projected Donald Trump as the winner in the primary. Clearly she has done remarkably well garnering nearly 40% of the votes in her home state where she was a two-term governor against a Trump’s disinformation and verbal assaults and threats which merit law enforcement action. In South Carolina politics, Haley who is seen as biased to white America, her husband Michael Haley coming from a white military family, has received blowback from black South Carolinians who elected helped elect Joe Biden to The White House. Black voters in the state closed ranks to push to put the junior U.S. Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott on the Trump ticket, with the Democrats still voting for Biden/Harris, Harris being Black and South Asian Indian by race. This could also happen across the country on Super Tuesday, with people being demagogued by both parties to vote their race. South Carolina black voters, no matter which party, are putting their foot down to say it is white and black America, squeezing out the minority Asians, including Asian Indians and Jews, with the Hispanics voting Democrat because of Trump’s draconian stance on Latin American immigration to deport, while Biden/Harris are far too liberal on immigration, with no middle ground. The social heuristic that America is white and black and Christian, in a country of Constitutional separation of Church and State and individual not group rights unlike in other countries, to marginalize Jews and Asians is a social pathology which pervades US government I experienced as an Asian Indian-American with a white-European immigrant wife, now ex, while leading #federalreserve employees after 9/11 in 2002. I can fully relate to Haley’s predicament in a country where nobody follows the Constitution and the law which is gathering dust on the shelf. Americans lead unlawful lives in a country of laws and not men. This makes Donald Trump honest about America. Haley is taking this as yet non-existent Ronald Reagan middle ground on immigration consistent with the United States. Nikki Haley is the best prospect for America’s future in the mold of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

Are you freaking out at polls showing Trump over Biden in battleground states? What I find interesting is that these polls *also* show the local Democrat winning. For example, this Arizona poll shows Trump ahead by 5 points, but Democrat Ruben Gallego is winning the U.S. Senate race by 13 points. Reverse coat-tails is a thing, and with enough organizing can help bring Biden over the top in key states. Arizona is going to have an abortion rights measure in November. And besides Gallego, there will be a lot of exciting Democrats running for state legislature. Stop freaking out about these Biden-Trump polls for an election that's not happening for six months, and focus on helping the bottom of the ticket that can bring Biden over the top when it matters.

According to our latest poll, two-thirds of Americans, including majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents, favor making defending human rights a goal of American foreign policy—and a plurality feel the best way to do so is through working with international organizations. Yet Americans are ambivalent about the goal of spreading democracy globally. These are some of the key findings of our University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll with Ipsos, fielded January 29-February 5, 2024, among 1,891 respondents from their probability-based panel, with a margin of error of 2.4%. The findings are potentially consequential for shifting public perceptions of President Joe Biden and his administration. https://lnkd.in/e4KSHrFr

Who Could Be the Next Democratic Presidential Candidate? Explore the potential contenders for the next Democratic presidential nominee. Discover the emerging candidates and lawmakers from the middle generation, like Cory Booker, who are striving to bring unity across party lines. Join the discussion about the future of American politics. #DemocraticPresidentialCandidate #CoryBooker #NextGenerationLeaders #UnityInPolitics #2024Elections #PoliticalDiscussion #Democrats2024 #FutureOfAmericanPolitics #EmergingLeaders #PartyUnity

As a Christian woman, how can you think faithfully about politics? In her latest article, Alicia shares scriptures that can help us with guiding principles as we decide who to vote for. https://buff.ly/4ev6Gk7

In this week's Political Pen Pals debate, Dustin Wahl and Bob Litan discuss proportional representation and what it could mean for growing political division in the United States. The Brookings Institution, Fix Our House Check out this link to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gH7bv54P #nonpartisan #bipartisan #bipartisanship #politics #news #politicalnews #republican #democrat #independent #political #liberal #conservative

I have to laugh every time somebody talks about democracy we don’t have it and never did, and never will. We work through elected representatives. Better read this. Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies. The theory and practice of direct democracy and participation as its common characteristic was the core of work of many theorists, philosophers, politicians, and social critics, among whom the most important are Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and G.D.H. Cole.[1]

WHY THE U.S. FOUNDERS’ CONCEPTIONS OF HUMAN AGENCY MATTER TODAY: THE EXAMPLE OF SENATE MALAPPORTIONMENT - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gTKuQ8tz This Article links the U.S. founders’ ideas about “human agency”—i.e., their understandings of the link between the individual and the social and political structure—with how they designed the Constitution and, in particular, how they designed the U.S. Senate as a non-majoritarian institution. I mine primary sources to show that although the founders struggled with many disagreements in drafting the Constitution, they shared an amalgam of historically received ideas about human agency derived from both liberal and civic republican traditions. I identify five such ideas and then parse which of them continue to pertain today. I argue that although contemporary and mainstream Western political thought continues to regard individuals’ pursuit of happiness and enjoyment of liberty as essential ends of government, the founders’ views about property and “independence” as prerequisites to having political rights no longer pertain. Yet those views provided the founders’ explicit rationale for the Senate’s anti-democratic design. This, I argue, is an important yet overlooked reason why that design must be rethought today, even though the Constitution purports to make this feature unamendable through a lastminute revision arguably extracted under duress. Fundamental contemporary principles of democracy hold that a constitution must be capable of change through civic participation on the part of all those who count.370 Today, a much broader set of persons count than the founders viewed as worthy of political rights in 1787. The idea of political equality stated in the Declaration of Independence has taken on increasing significance through, among other developments, the ratification of the Reconstruction-Era amendments, the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote, a slew of Supreme Court decisions, the passage of a host of civil rights laws, and the process of popular constitutionalism.371 Americans retain a commitment to a number of key ideas inherited from the founders about the proper relationship between human agency and government design, including the ideas that the goal of government is to promote individuals’ pursuit of happiness, or flourishing or capacities; that both active liberty and personal freedom are key values; and that a mix of civic republican and liberal principles should guide government. #AmericanStudies #AmericanGoverment #governance #USHouse #USSenate #USConstitution #USConstitution #USCongress #USHistory #Democracy #democraticErosion #USSupremeCourt #LawandOrder