I rarely see a new idea.
Crypto was new. Public key encryption was new. Elon’s re-use of launch rockets and re-landing them was new. MrNA used as a vaccine is new. National legal abortion as a crime fighting tool was new. China’s rating of all citizens on five status levels is new. In surgery, medicine and the technology surrounding computer chips there are many new ideas. The idea that the use of shipping containers as a major source of deflation is new. The ‘wokie’ idea that class differences as a cause of revolutions can be replaced with ethnic, racial and gender differences is new.
The greatest new idea is the vote, last week, of five Oregon counties to leave Oregon and join Idaho. That idea has vast repercussions in the realm of democracy just as my idea of modern sortition in 1977, did.
The biggest repercussions would be in the Electoral College. The outcome would be based on the desire of outlying counties to gain political influence by leaving states dominated by big cities. If lower Illinois and Western Michigan joined Indiana, that would give the Conservative anti-wokie movement permanent power in the U.S. The same counties would escape the adverse state control of EPA’s, zoning, gun control and a wide array of Lefty legislation. Two other likely moves would be for most of Nevada to join Utah and most of Minnesota and Wisconsin to join Iowa.
I don’t expect the movement to affect California, where the State Legislature would be powerful enough to oppose it. But it might be possible for western Pennsylvania counties to join Ohio.
For the first time in history America would become a conservative nation based on its own founding principles where big city labor unions would no longer out vote the more prevalent small socially integrated communities. Shades of Jefferson.
I know that many of the ideas listed here are new to a diverse group of my readers. Most can be looked up on line. The last group of counties to leave a state created West Virginia before the Civil War. Congress approved it as did Virginia.
The main related issue that can’t be found online is that union values dominate urban politics and are the source of the modern ‘wokie’ movement values. Just knowing that the key union values are anti-meritocracy and pro-seniority should be enough to explain the connection. Pay grades based only on seniority are anti-meritocratic and stifle well- functioning hierarchies. The core idea of the wokie movement.
Understanding that the ‘wokie’ movement arose from the downfall of the hereditary elite in the early 1960s and the rise of urban union power is an important and powerful idea. Mine. See here.
It really feels good to find a new idea in the realm of democracy.