It all began with the constitutional convention in 1787. There was at that time no television, radio, telegraph, telephone or satellite communication. There was only horse or sea communication from one person to another. Our founders had to devise a system whereby all the votes could be counted and the mission of democracy achieved, where every note counted; where the majority vote decided which candidate won, and which issue passed or failed. This program was soon challenged by the slave states, who wanted their slave population counted as votes in the Electoral College system. The slave states protested until a compromise was reached: the slave population would be counted as 3/5 each person so that those slave states would have greater electoral votes than those states that had only white populations, even though the black population was not given the right to vote until 1965.

We were already at this point not a democracy but a minocracy, where the minority can control what candidate or issue can win an election. That dilution in our democracy became even worse as the states passed laws giving all of the votes to the one candidate that had the most votes. This was demolition of our democratic values, passed by all of the states except Maine and Nebraska. Further demolition of our near-death democracy occurred with the filibuster rule in the Senate of the United States of America. That rule stated that in order to pass, an issue had to have 60 percent of the majority vote to be approved, and passed to the House of Representatives for their consideration and approval or revision. This allowed the minority in the Senate to control what legislation could pass, or fail to appear for a vote because it could not pass without minority support. The final stake in the heart of our democratic system was used during the last presidential contest, when Elon Musk decided he did not want to pay taxes on his billions, and spent 300 million or more to flood the television screens of America with negative ads, attacking Kamala Harris, her integrity, her capability, her social programs, giving a flood of lies about her ability to be our president of the United States of America. A major part of her program to take away our huge national debt, was to tax the super-wealthy, make them pay their fair share of our tax burden. Since Elon did not like that, he probably spent half a billion dollars, throughout the campaign, to get Trump elected.

When the super-wealthy can choose what candidate they like, then get him or her elected, our democracy has died. If democracy in the United States of America is to exist again, multiple changes will have to be made:

1.      The Electoral College will have to be abolished.

2.      The Senate Filibuster will have to be abolished.

3.      The State laws giving all Electoral votes to the winner, must be abolished.

4.      The super-wealthy people and corporations must be taxed their 30% fair share of our taxes.

These are the changes that will have to be made in order for democracy to exist in the United States of America again.