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November 25, 2021
My Vote Matters Because There Are 140 Million Exactly Like It!
<p>If you’re an American fed up with the non-sense radiating from Washington D.C. then please listen.</p><p>First, let me say.</p><p>You’re not alone. <a target="_blank" href="https://randy.hynes.com/2021/11/24/you-are-not-alone/">You are not alone</a> ></p><p>In fact, you are in a super majority of American people who either never joined a political party, joined then quit, or are registered to vote under a party label and now say, “my party no longer speaks for me”. Sound familiar? You may even be one of the tens of millions of Americans who choose not to Vote.</p><p>Nearly everyone agrees that Congress is nonresponsive. Whether by design or happenstance, political leadership seems content to be stuck in the 20th Century. It’s like they think we’re not watching and we don’t see everything that’s really going on.</p><p>I believe that there’s a way for Us to make Congress more responsive without changing the system.</p><p>Currently, major party leadership in Congress controls the agenda and the narrative to benefit private and political interests over the will of the people. Just two people have the final word and dictate the Congressional calendar. Most Congress People are helpless to do anything other than comply and side with the party that sent them to Congress. That’s what most of them do, with occasional actions and regular fist shaking.</p><p>The difference between recent Congressional membership and membership in past Congresses is the absence of Moderate Republican and Democratic members. Once numbering hundreds, there are now just a handful.</p><p>There are Americans right this minute who want to Run for Congress and humbly serve our interests as part of a Moderate red and blue caucus who can influence and possibly control the agenda over party leadership and who will moderate discussions that focus on policies that promote equality of opportunity and economic certainty.</p><p>They’re discouraged by the fact that less than 10% of American Voters turnout at Primary elections. Partisan voters who nominate the most partisan candidates. When the rest of us show up in November, most elections are already decided and we send the most partisan candidates to Congress. We lose.</p><p>Winning numbers are on our side. 235 Million Americans are eligible to vote. If the normal 65% turnout of General elections occurred at Primaries, we win. That’s it.</p><p>Americans who want to Run for Congress need to know whether more of Us than usual will turnout and Vote in the 2022 Primary elections. In turn, we need to know whether they are likely to represent Us.</p><p>Let’s listen to them and share what we learn.</p><p><strong>Affordable Priorities</strong></p><p>Let’s nominate red and blue candidates from the Primaries who are most likely to represent the “affordable priorities” of most Americans. Championing American values on a Budget! What a novel concept.</p><p>Let’s do this in 2022 and see how it works. There only seems to be an upside for We The People.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://rampartcaucus.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">rampartcaucus.substack.com</a>
November 21, 2021
Know More to Make My Vote Matter
<p>Our individual sense that My Vote Matters and will cause a meaningful outcome is all each of us want. That has eroded for decades and may never have existed for young voters. Our vote has been relegated to dutifully selecting one of two candidates by party label. Little more.</p><p>For our entire lives we’ve relied on the messages of each major Party to translate to policy that works in the interest of the American people. The competing party platforms are summarized by the size of government being reflective of our compassion for people versus a smaller government that is more fiscally responsible and allows people to self-determine.</p><p>It’s obvious to all of us that the government is the largest one in history, assimilates every tax dollar and there are 43 million Americans living in poverty. That’s where we are terminally stuck, 21 years into the 21st Century.</p><p>We see that each of the messages that we’ve voted for our entire lives have fallen woefully short. Without meaningful outcomes American votes have lost value to most Americans.</p><p>This is where I am on my American journey. If you’re like me, then you’re fed up and just want more common-sense and humility in Congress to represent the affordable priorities of most Americans. Most of us like a little from each side, embrace the same American values and want the same equality of opportunity that cohesive policy and economic certainty can promote.</p><p>No one represents American interests over political interests in Congress. Not even your Congressperson or Senator. They’re seemingly incapable and despite good intentions and modest actions are trapped by the system. The Congressional agenda is controlled by one person in both chambers, the respective majority leaders, and focuses entirely on supporting political interest and majority control of the chambers. The will of most American people rarely, if ever influences agenda or policy.</p><p><strong>Make “My Vote Matter” by Considering Candidates Who Are Likely to be Representative of Most Americans</strong></p><p><strong>Anticipate the Potential of a Coalition of Red & Blue Moderates, Who Can Control Congressional Agenda to Protect the Affordable Priorities of Most Americans</strong></p><p>Making “My Vote Matter” could be as basic as voting for a Congressional candidate who is likely to caucus as a red or blue moderate, in order to positively influence control of the agenda over the majority leader in each chamber. Voters would need to anticipate that other voters are of a like mind, know the rules for participating in their State’s Primary election, then just as important to the process, a candidate would be encouraged to run by anticipating that voters would turnout motivated to nominate a more representative candidate for the November 8th election.</p><p>Matthew Yglesias and Steven Teles, in a recent The Atlantic article, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/how-moderates-could-actually-take-control-washington/620599/">A Moderate Proposal</a> make a case for a coalition of red and blue Congressmembers who could control the agenda and move the Senate forward. They appropriately call the group a “Fulcrum”.</p><p>Lee Drutman says in “Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America” that Congress was more responsive before the Civil Rights Bill of 1965 because of a Moderate red and blue membership that he calls “Shadow Parties”. The Republican and Democratic Parties as four parties. The shadow parties were red or blue moderates who identified with their party and who also considered the interests of their constituency. They moderated the debate. (Mr. Drutman hasn’t endorsed this solution. He is more in favor of Proportional Representation)</p><p>Joseph Manchin and <a target="_blank" href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/gen-x-takes-the-senate-kyrsten-sinema/">Kirsten Sinema</a>, Moderate Democratic Senators, became pivotal (a fulcrum) recently. Their pushback was disruptive to bills from the Democratic Party. Their positions forced the two sides to have conversations that would’ve never occurred otherwise. It was not surprising that they were characterized through social media and corporate news as being extremists for their center position.</p><p><strong>Congressional Midterm Primaries are Low Turnout & Vulnerable to a Well-Executed Plan by Informed Voters!</strong></p><p><strong>A Plan to Influence Control of 118th Congressional Agenda over Chamber Majority Leaders by two well-organized red & blue groups of Congress people.</strong></p><p>The 118th Congress, with more moderate Republican and Democratic Congressmembers could work together to control the agenda that will focus on the interests of Americans, instead of the nonstop politically oriented schedule and policies that favor the consortium of wealthy election donors that each chamber leader overtly serves at the expense of the American people.</p><p>Rampart Caucus is an idea for sharing information that will inform and empower people like us to Vote in the 2022 Primaries to nominate humility and common-sense to the November 8, 2022 General Election for the 118th Congress. Red or Blue candidates who will also consider the interests of their constituency.</p><p>Giving my single vote meaning and value and making it matter can only be achieved by giving like-minded people HOPE that we’ll all turnout at the next election and consider candidates who will most likely represent the affordable priorities of most Americans.</p><p>Submitted Humbly for My Kids, Randell S. Hynes, Twitter @RandellHynes</p><p>—</p><p><strong>What Each American Voter Should Know Before the 2022 Primary Elections</strong></p><p>* Major party doesn’t mean majority.</p><p>* Majority control of a chamber of Congress doesn’t mean that Party represents a majority of Americans.</p><p>* You’re not alone. Half of eligible Voters are not affiliated with a major Party.</p><p>* Is the Primary Election in my State called Open or Closed?</p><p>* Primary Elections to nominate a Party candidate are open to every American who updates their registration label. It’s a label, not a pledge.</p><p>* Closed doesn’t mean Prohibited.</p><p>* Party is just a label. How do I change my label if I’m in a “Closed” Primary State?</p><p>* My Primary Election location, time, procedure.</p><p>* Primary Election rules and procedures for My State.</p><p>* We can only vote in one Party Primary.</p><p>* More about each Candidate.</p><p>* You can Run for Congress by following your States filing rules. Here in Nevada the filing fee is $300. You must be registered in the desired Party before 12/31/21. Filing is in early March 2022. Other States have different rules.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://rampartcaucus.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">rampartcaucus.substack.com</a>
September 13, 2021
Appeal to Governors: Find Champions for 118th Congress Rampart Caucus
<p>Congress is unresponsive.</p><p>An overwhelming majority of Americans no longer have confidence in that institution to represent the will of the American people and feel helpless to do anything about it. States and the people are promised a Republic that at minimum should give us good faith representation. People, especially in underserved communities feel the impact and betrayal of a government that we all enrich, expecting to see problems cured. We send more money to the US Government than any people in human history. Those dollars are assimilated into a giant government monolith that only grows larger, and never smaller or more efficient. Then, Trillions more dollars are borrowed by Congress, indebting future generations, future families, as casually as dropping gum on the grocery counter.</p><p>Rampart Caucus is a national campaign in the planning stages to identify the most moderate red or blue candidates in each 2022 Congressional open Primary. </p><p><strong>Governors can be instrumental in identifying Congressional candidates</strong> from their States who will be Champions in a moderate Caucus that represents their party message first with an additional commitment to the will of the American people.</p><p>Admitting humbly that each party doesn’t truly represent the will of most people is the first step to move forward here.</p><p>This is an appeal to you and fellow Governors to lead a campaign in your State to find Champions. Party candidates who would go to Congress and push back against the status quo, consider the will of the American people and moderate policy making to better represent the “affordable priorities” of most Americans. Nothing more.</p><p>This is a centuries-old concern that has only tightened its grip on Congress, tighter and tighter as tax revenues doubled each decade since 1930 (sans 2010). The $4 Trillion a year that Americans send to the IRS and unquestionable authority to borrow has become the jackpot that grips Congress and creates an institution where honest people can no longer be honest, who are each trapped in two partisan caucuses, controlled by party Congressional leadership, and incapable of representing a broad constituency, or even offer good faith representation of most Americans.</p><p>It’s unfortunate that the following century old words are still relevant.</p><p>“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.” -Theodore Roosevelt, Bull Moose Party Convention, 1912</p><p>A new party is not the answer.</p><p>Our political parties represent only a slightly different notion about whether the size of government either says how much we care about our people, or whether the size of government is an impediment to individual liberty and progress. Yet, we’ve been led to believe that our side is the only way and the other side of Americans is evil. </p><p>People are fed up. </p><p>Rampart Caucus Corporation is a Nevada nonprofit formed for the purpose of educating people about the promises versus reality of political parties and to offer a way forward to Americans who feel helpless and want to be heard. </p><p>Now, mere months away from the first Congressional Primaries of the 118th United States Congress, I believe there is a path forward without changing the system. Americans only need to consider whether their party’s candidate will go to Congress to represent the people, or if they will go there and only parrot party narrative and vote party line. A vote which is rarely, if ever, a vote that considers the will of the people. Primaries are traditionally low turnout, partisan, unenthusiastic elections where a party candidate peacocks away from the center.</p><p>This is the path forward.</p><p><strong>Let’s identify Champions in each open Party Primary in 2022</strong> to send the most electable candidate who is most likely to represent the will of the American people to the general election.</p><p>As Governor, if you have any influence to make your State’s primaries open, then your residents deserve that option.</p><p>There’s no time to change the laws of the election system that have been prescribed to us after centuries of law making to keep out competition from third parties and strengthen party positions. Let’s instead leverage the vulnerabilities of that system to send hope to Congress. </p><p>Rampart Caucus doesn’t claim to be the only organization capable of promoting this effort. It is the only known effort of its kind. Any effort to build a Caucus by any name, from any campaign that represents moderation is the only way forward, for 2022. Any campaign like this will give Americans hope, inspire us to consider innovation, provide a vision of the way things could be and enthusiasm that gives all Americans trust that their vote matters.</p><p>Rampart Caucus will continue into 2024 with hopes of building an even more formidable caucus and trust that a true leader will emerge to further the cause of returning a Republic to States and at the very least, good faith and accountable representation to the people.</p><p>Governors, there must be people in your State who are willing to first represent their party, then secondly, stand up to the consortium of donors that grip Congress. Maybe your incumbents are your best people and they just need something new to rally behind and support of fellow Congress people who believe the same. These century old words of President Theodore Roosevelt, when campaigning for change, that characterizes a new party. The words fit very well to embody the challenges of building a new moderate Caucus. “Unhampered by tradition, uncorrupted by power, undismayed by the magnitude of the task, the new ‘party’ [caucus] offers itself as the instrument of the people, to sweep away old abuses, to build a new and nobler government.” </p><p>Support Rampart Caucus in this national effort, or create your own campaign. </p><p>Ladies and Gentlemen Governors, this isn’t a Shark Tank presentation where I’m confronted by Mark Cuban with the question, “What’s to stop me from just going out and doing this on my own.” My answer to that is, feel free, Mr. Cuban. We have history to make here and a government to save that can serve its people on the meager [sic] $4 Trillion we send now.</p><p>Our children and future generations deserve better. We don’t have to settle for exactly nothing we’re getting now.</p><p>With respect,Randell S. Hynes</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://rampartcaucus.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">rampartcaucus.substack.com</a>
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