okay... how it is roughly done in germany: the parties get their seats based on their voting percentage (you get 30% of the votes, you get 30% of the seats)
But I think the issue with the US is that the population is super unevenly distributed. Where like 4 cities would decide the course of the country if you did seats by % of votes
after that it gets filled up to roughly meet the initial percentage (really complicated math is used there, so i'm not going to try and explain it... but the end result is roughly 1% of votes equals 1% of seats)
Obviously a biased editorial (it's a right-leaning blog and the writer works to promote armed self-defense), but a nice takedown of CNN nonetheless. Plus crosses nicely into recent events. Including Stand-Your-Ground in CA.
“ New York Times publishers and Trump clash over President’s threats against journalism “
Sulzberger dishonestly conflates Trump saying that “ The FAKE NEWS media” is “ the enemy of the people “ to mean that Trump said journalist in general are the enemy.This is why the fake news media is the enemy. They constantly lie and distort the truth.
http://archive.today/mApTQ
“ Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA” by Glenn Greenwald on The Guardian
The CIA leaked classified information to the Director of Zero Dark Thirty to help craft propaganda to help Obama in the 2012 election. This article details the CIA working directly with the New York Times to prevent this from being know. The editor sent the article in advance for approval by their CIA handlers.
“ Downgrade Blues” by Maureen Dowd on The New York Times
This is the article that NYT sent to the CIA for pre approval. The CIA worked closely with the media to obfuscate their involvement in the movie Zero Dark Thirty. A movie the CIA used as propaganda to cast the Obama administrations foreign policy in a positive light to help him in the 2012 election.
I’ve provided the article and the declassification CIA emails, so you can see for yourselves.
