We Da Ppl who do grok the differences between Jeffersonian, Hamiltonian, and Jimbonian “democracies†— briefly put, systems founded on the principles of OPOV (one person one vote), OBOV (one buck one vote), and OSOV (one sock one vote) — know that the USA Community was originally constituted as a high-wire act of balancing and checking between OPOV and OBOV, a bit of derring do that is tricky enough to keep on the up and up, to say the least, no matter what strength of Social Safety Net was later stretched underneath.
But now a Third Rule has entered the fray, and if it was always difficult enough to keep OBOV from strangling OPOV in its sleep — and you know how much OPOV loves to sleep — the New Coalition between OBOV and OSOV is tolling what sounds like the death knell of OPOV once and for all.
Jon Awbrey
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