Pilots tend to be more conservative than flight attendants, overall. So after NASCAR driver Brandon Brown at Talladega Speedway on October 2, and a reporter mistook the crowd chanting “F- Joe Biden” as “Let’s Go Brandon!” the slogan took on a life of its own… in the cockpit.
It seemed like it should have died out by December but was still going on over air traffic control at the end of the year.
Still I’m surprised to see it in the cabin on American Airlines in May 2022:
Hey @AmericanAir, is it employee policy to be allowed to wear Let’s Go Brandon merch in uniform? Thought we already had this talk, guys… AA 1391 MIA-STT pic.twitter.com/KcJOvrrAFD
— Michaela the Merfolk (@dm_mitchi) May 17, 2022
More than bringing politics into the aircraft cabin, the problem here is that Let’s Go Brandon has simply become derivative. It’s so 2021. Wearing a Let’s Go Brandon pin isn’t just a juvenile way to express yourself, it’s a way of saying I’m 8 months behind the meme.
It was cute back in early fall when a passenger recently had American Airlines page “Let’s Go Brandon.” But haven’t we already done this one to death?
Someone just paged Let's Go Brandon at Chicago O'Hare. pic.twitter.com/BrUK2TuzJF
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) October 8, 2021
Six years ago a United Airlines pilot announced that everyone had to keep politics off the plane. Passengers cheered. No matter your feelings about silly memes or the President of the United States, there are some places where we should be left alone. Stuck in a metal tube, you can’t escape a pilot’s politics.
The American Airlines flight attendant was violating uniform standards. There are approved pins that cabin crew can wear. There’s a process for adding more of them. This is not approved flair.
That’s how it is in a mean hateful disrespectful world.
Yes, most of us would like to leave politics out of the cabin. But I don’t recall the same people getting upset at the recent Alaska “pronoun pins”. That’s political too, like it or not – just on the other side of the aisle. I don’t need to know your gender politics to treat you like a human being. But if you insist, I’m going to identify my preferred pronouns as “Your Highness”.
Either you allow all politics in or you allow none of it in. I’d prefer none.
Before you become too sensitive from the Peoples Republic of Austin over the Brandon button, you should be far more concerned with BLM buttons adorning uniforms, given the proven facts of BLM’s founding by avowed Marxists and the recent revelation confirming their serious tax avoidance.
Still cannot understand why ex-AA CEO Parker allowed such a button on the uniform of FAs; might as well minted a button “In Memory of Weimar…”
We should stop using coded language and let them wear “f*ck Joe Biden” pins instead.
freedom of expression. get used to it. FJB
There is a simple solution. Only corporate approved pins should be permitted on a uniform. Whether those are pronouns, BLM, LGB, FJB — if a white collar overlord says it’s ok then it’s ok. If they have not said anything then it’s not ok.
There is an argument that pronouns are also political just on the other side. Well, not really, but in any case here’s the thing. Both liberals and conservatives agree that liberals have won the culture war, thus, liberals get to decide what is political enough to be banned (like LGB) and what is humanity-universal (like pronouns and BLM).
Remember, Starbucks, Apple Store, and all manner of corporations have plastered BLM over their retail surfaces. Not a single national business has plastered LGB.
One could say that the very fact airlines permit boarding of women, LGBT, and non-white travelers is a political statement. A number of deeply conservative types believe women belong at home, the LGBT belong in hell, that non-whites belong in foreign countries.
So some pins are better than other pins? BS.
What James said
If they can wear rainbow flags and BLM pins, then surely they can also wear “Let’s go Brandon” merch. It is just as funny now as it was last year, and much funnier than BLM’s 2020 Summer of Love that left billions of dollars in damage and dozens of people dead or wounded.
Had sad that one feels the need to wear anything that says “Let’s go Brandon,” Bunch of unfulfilled weak-minded people who were not hugged enough as children. Frankly I feel the same way about anyone walking around with anything that says F Trump. Too much f’ing hate going around and this just adds to it.
I need an edit button!
19 pieces of flare! FJB
If rainbow pins are allowed that represent intolerance of straight Christian views and lgbtqa support of grooming of preschoolers, all pins that represent other views need to be allowed.
Brandon isn’t yet done destroying America. LGB pins should be MANDATORY.
At the very least, your boarding order should be determined by your pin and your airline. Conservative airlines LGB pins board first. On Far left airlines, rainbow flags and “ Im proud of my 10 abortions “ t shirts get priority boarding. Then we can determine which airlines we should buy tickets on.
@ Joseph — You nailed it. It is sad, but they they are following the example of their Dear Leader.
@ Joe — Their moron leader left trillions of dollars of damage to the world economy, so I guess they are even now?
Just reading through the comments…Our society is doomed at this point.
@ Joe — Just to be clear — “their leader” = the former twice-impeached, defeated POTUS.
I’m down with it.
No difference between LGB, FJB, and BLM.
@Trump One and @ Mark.
If the world wasn’t pull of bigoted, racist, delusional A**HOles like yourselves, there would be no need for BLM. And insofar as FJB, he won. Get over it, losers.
K Helldoge, He won, but he’s a loser. Now who has won? And if the Hunter story doesn’t convince you he is part of the problem then we are all doomed. And if his dismal performance does not have you convinced…Oh shit!
Lastly, I am not a Trump fan. Just an American.
Let’s Go Brandon is timeless, as long as Brandon Regime continues to destroy the economy.
Good, if they could wear pins from a communist and racist money laundering group that advocated for killing people, then FJB swag should be kosher too.
Lefties are the enemy.
I no longer view you as friends or countrymen.
@K Helldoge
BLM is a terrorist group and subversive Marxist group.
Wow, the comments are rife with racist right-wing stink.
My preferred pronouns are let’s go Brandon. You must comply and use the term no matter your beliefs, grammar skills or scientific evidence. Those are the rules now.
“Mistook”? Come on, Gary, you’re not that ignorant. Then, again…
Straight White Evangelicals feel hated when they can’t force everyone to be like them. LGBT and BLM feel hated when they are denied the rights Straight White Evangelicals take for granted.
Where can I get a “Let’s go Gary” pin?
The citizens who didn’t support Trump for 4 years (he’s still at it) and those that don’t support the current president’s agenda (yes, some don’t like this guy either) should all learn to get along – everyone has the opportunity to vote every 4 years. If you don’t support it – vote against it – politics (or any statement for or against) should not be hanging off any company employees clothing – no matter if it’s an airline employee, Judge, store clerk, restaurant worker, etc. We all have a chance to “move forward” now that the mask laws have been quashed. Let’s ALL get along and make this country better for EVERYONE who lives here and pays taxes (like you and me). We’ll all be better in the long run. Yes, we all have freedom of speech, but please, keep
It out of the workplace. Hasn’t Covid done enough to wear us out – without the never ending political connotations for or against somebody?
There sure are a lot of whiney [redacted] in here. If you don’t like the the pins, why not then just carry on with your lives rather than have a meltdown over it. Why is ignoring inane political shit you don’t agree with such an absurd request? Get over yourselves and stop being so [redacted] fragile.
@Ivan B
Lgbt and BLM stuffer from oppression delusions. They want special rights
Omg your so butt hurt hahaha
When I was a young pup and they had just outlawed smoking on airplanes (much to the chagrin of left wing conservative cigarette lives matter activists) I had a flight attendant on a flight from ATL to HSV who said:
“Here at [TWA?] we believe in the individuals’ right to smoke. Therefore, if you do want to smoke during the flight, we ask that you quietly exit the aircraft and close the door behind you.”
I thought that was pretty good.
Maybe anyone who feels the need to express political opinion, virtue signal, or be a dick in general should be allowed to, so long as they exist the aircraft and close the door behind them.
Ah, Americans and their obsession with “freedom of expression”, at all costs, typically over sanity, common sense, politeness, good manners, and so on. No wonder the country is melting down into a cesspool of unrelenting gun violence, racism, sectarianism, petty identity politics, and can only find solace in celebrities to bring them together. Hard pass.
Everything Biden touches turns to sh!t……
He truly is Jimmy Carter 2.0
FJB
All political expression is the SAME. That’s why there’s no real problem if flight attendants wear a swastika pin on their clothes. It’s just POLITICS, dawg, no different than wearing a BLM pin to show support for people who don’t want the cops to shoot them, or choke them, or bust in their heads for driving while black. Nazis didn’t want cops busting in their heads, either. You see? THE SAME. DUH.
If people tell you earnestly that they prefer to be called by pronouns that fit their genuine gender identity, then obviously this is no different than my utterly bad faith argument that I should demand people call me by some arbitrary, made up identity just to be spiteful. DUH.
HUMAN rights are SPECIAL rights. Only SPECIAL people get them. DUH.
Huge capitalist corporations support their employees wearing BLM buttons because they like that BLM founders are Marxists, because that’s what huge capitalist corporations support, Marxism and the nationalization of all means of production; it has nothing to do with huge capitalist corporations wanting to be viewed as caring about Americans and in the good graces of Americans who care about other Americans. DUH.
Rightwing delusions of victimhood that express themselves in hatred of others is EXACTLY the same as expressions of support for fellow Americans whose lives are threatened every day. DUH.
Seriously, this stuff is simple, people. SIMPLE.
DUH.
LET’S GO BRANDON
The truth is that the republican party only retains national relevance because of two institutions created to support slavery: the senate and the electoral college.
@Nico Z
You don’t understand history.
@Steve you’re so easily manipulated it’s no wonder you but into the BLM propaganda and the their oppression delusion.
People who need to tell everyone their pronouns are entitled defective people.
Lefties are immature entitled snowflakes.
@Koggerj
NicoZ is right on the money. The Senate was designed to give all states equal weight, regardless of population, and slave states didn’t have the numbers, they just had land and money. This in turn impacts laws that are passed and the Electoral college which determines the Executive that signs the laws, and the judiciary (voted on by the Senate) that determines the constitutionality of those laws. Only the House of Reps reflect true numbers, but those numbers are distorted by gerrymandering by Republicans. As a result, the GOP have lost the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 Presidential elections, but the outcomes of elections and the weight of judiciary do not reflect the general will of the American people. The further along we go, the more the US will be torn apart by a minority Republican party trying to keep in check a majority non-Republican populace through various non-democratic means.
@Steve
That was the was it was designed from day one and has nothing to with “keeping slavery” it was too keep this country from descending into mob rule and giving one state more power than the other.
Gerrymandering is a democrat thing and up to 2010 was used primarily by them and it was only after they couldn’t have a monopoly anymore did they start to cry about it.
Like with all things the democrat party ares hypocrites and liars and proudly used gerrymandering in new york. California and Illinois this year.
Democrats have to rely on the poor and destitute to win elections with their propaganda and identity politics. They truly are a fifth column.
@Steve – Please return any degrees you have to the nearest Cracker Jack box.
If we look at the Election of 1792, the first election after the adoption of the current Constitution that all states participated in, the largest state, by far, is Virginia, with 21. You might recall Virginia had a rather large number of slaves (39% of the population, only South Carolina had a bigger percentage.). It was one of those Big States the small states worried about dominating under a purely proportional government. In fact, if not for the 3/5ths compromise, and the Senate, it would have been even more powerful. The US population at the time of ratification was tilted toward the southern states, it’s why the South dominated the US government pre-Civil War and the South saw the election of Lincoln as such a threat – they knew that the north and west were beginning to dominate US politics by population and without an expansion of slavery into the western states, the south was doomed to no longer control US politics.
Contrary to your thought that the Senate allowed for southern control of US politics at the time of ratification, it was the smaller northern states who demanded the Senate to have even a small voice in the government. At the time of ratification, the smallest US states were: Delaware (15% slave), Rhode Island (1% slave), Georgia (35% slave), and New Hampshire (0.1% slave). Only Georgia was what we would consider a “slave state”, although it was an important institution in Delaware. And FWIW, all states except Massachusetts had slaves in 1790, although they were obviously concentrated In Maryland and points south, but New York was 6% slave. The biggest states in total population were Virginia, North Carolina, Massachusetts/Maine, and Pennsylvania. The biggest free white states were Massachusetts/Maine, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Suffice it to say, your basic proposition that slave states didn’t have the population at the time of ratification is just flat out wrong. There are a whole lot of complicating factors in the compromise that brought about the Constitution, but the slave states being small is not one of them. And you don’t get to retcon later developments in how the Senate and Electoral College were used – no one at the Constitutional Convention had a crystal ball.
@Koggerj
The system for the Senate was created not simply to prevent “mob rule” but specifically to persuade slave states they would be able to maintain power in the legislative, judiciary, and executive systems to keep slavery. This is also why the 3/5 compromise was created. It was baked into the Constitution.
Gendermandering isn’t a “Democrat thing,” you maroon. It was named after a man named Gerry in 1812 for the Democratic-Republican Party, and it has been used by all parties thereafter, but it’s been used most aggressively by the GOP in the last decades to specifically and intentionally target and reduce the voting strength of people of color, which courts have repeatedly ruled.
To get into a forth that gerrymandering has been used in New York, California, and Illinois is a pathetic statement, as those are three states where Democrats have massive popularity and don’t even need gerrymandering at the federal level. It would be like complaining that Republicans are gerrymandering Idaho. Where it matters most is in the purple states like North Carolina and Wisconsin, and this is where GOP gerrymandering has been most egregious.
Third, your statement that Democrats “rely on the poor and destitute” is, like… not only inaccurate — for example, people with college and graduate degrees are overwhelming Democratic voters — but deeply insulting to your fellow Americans who _are_ poor and destitute. The whole point of America is that it’s a place where the poor and destitute (should) get a chance. It’s written on the Statue of Liberty. It’s in the Declaration of Independence. It’s written in our national DNA. I get that it doesn’t exist in how YOU view America, where apparently the poor and destitute should know their place and STFU.
Lastly, “identity politics” are what is the heart and soul of right wing reactionary politics. The whining and gnashing of teeth on Fox News and other propaganda networks are almost entirely about how “Christian white men” are being victimized by… I don’t know, not being able to be a-holes to people like they used to feel free to?
Right wing violence makes up 3/4 of all terrorist acts in the US; Islamic violence makes up 1/5; and left wing terrorism less than 1/20. In their ignorance and blind terror, conservatives in the US have increasingly decided it’s okay to be terrorists like the Jan 6 insurrectionists and murderers like Kyle Rittenhouse, making them the true fifth column in America.
@C_M I will bow to the argument that the Senate was not created to protect slavery but only functioned as such from about 1820 onward. Can I have my degree back?
Of Bidens 22 million twitter followers over half are bots.
I wonder if 41 million of his 82 million votes in 2020 were fraudulent?
@Steve
Facts don’t care about your feelings. Your false narrative and history has already been called out as has your debunked and ahistorical view of the senate and democrat gerrymandering.
Gerrymandering if a democrat thing, It was their way to win elections up until 2010 when they lost their majorities on the state levels because of massive failure of the unqualified barrack hussein obama.
Democrats cry about it but in 2021 have used and abused gerrymandering more than anyone. Over the past 30 years the gop has steadily increased their vote fairly and on the ground level while democrats have used every dirty trick to maintain power. Even bussing homeless people to polls.
Democrats rely on the poorest most ignorant people to vote for them. The most successful people in life vote republican because they contribute the most. Democrats are the party of crime, welfare and pedophilia.
Being a reactionary is a good thing especially when you have the party of pedophiles and sexual deviants grooming children you mutilate their bodies based on junk science. We need more reactionary people in office to keep the sick groomers in the democratic partying from sexualizing school children.
democrats always push the BLM lies and conspiracy’s that are easily debunked and push their war on police but given the surge of democrat crime they have now had to abandon the BLM terrorist groups since it’s hurting their election chances.
The reason you mental midgets hate Fox news is because it exposed the liberal media and their bias. You no longer can brainwash people with your far left propaganda.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a patriot and was found not guilty of shooting those antifa Marxist terrorists who chased and attacked him. We need more people like him.
Blm has caused more death and destruction in their summer of love. The murders and burning of entire cities were 100 times worse than what you marxists call “the insurrection”.
People like you are the enemy.
Nov is going to be nasty for your side. GOOD.
@Steve – No, please return it immediately for making the pisspoor arguments you just made regarding the Senate above.
The Senate was not founded in any way to allow for the maintenance of slavery – it is the lesser democractic branch of government, intended to represent states, not the people. Why would the part of the country that was most populous be in favor of a system that lessened their power? Only 5 of the original 13 states were over 15% slave, with Delaware being at exactly 15%. A Senate that voted exactly along slave/non-slave lines would be anti-slavery. Furthermore, the 3/5 Compromise was an explicitly ANTI-SLAVERY measure – recall that it was the slaveowners who wanted full counting of slaves (there are tax issues also involved), but you can’t complain about the 3/5ths rule on the one hand and not be tied to slave-owners if you argue it was immoral to count them that way – for that you would have to argue that they shouldn’t be counted at all.
Furthermore, except for the odd Elections of 1796/1800 and subsequent election reform, the Electoral College didn’t really come into play, presidential elections were pretty much non-competitive until 1824 when things started to get really interesting and the modem political system began to develop, completed in 1828 with the election of Andrew Jackson.
Furthermore, the anti-slavery movement was really in it’s infancy in 1787, only Massachusetts/Maine had completely abolished it and most movements against slavery were more against the slave trade, not slavery itself. The idea that the slave states could see into the future and construct the Constitution in such a way as to prevent the victory of a fringe political movement when they held all the cards in the first place is laughable. Recall that the Constitution even gave Congress the power to ban the slave trade after 1808, 20 years after the adoption, and the slaveowners agreed to this, so it’s not like they saw the anti-slave trade movement as much of the threat.
Were there subsequent moves made to protect slavery and did the Constitution almost guarantee Civil War – sure, you can ague that, but why would the Convention adopt a Constitution that guaranteed Civil War if they could see it was going to do that? You really need to put down your copy of The 1619 Project and read some real history.
@Flying.While.High.Again – To be fair, Elon Musk’s followers are an even higher percentage of bots, so I think the only thing we can say is that Twitter may be a huge fraud upon advertisers and Musk is smart to look for an off-ramp and/or discount price. It may implode in a wave of lawsuits if he doesn’t buy it and I’m not sure he’s going to want to take on the existing liability. We all know it’s not real life, even if the people who live there think it is.
still hysterical if you ask me. especially, when Biden says it himself
Another liberal blah blah blah. Can’t take the truth.
I agree that political pins, buttons have no place in the workplace when those items are in public view or on an official uniform. That just makes common sense as you don’t want to alienate any of your customer base. However the left is equally guilty of this as we still see the “fu.k Trump” buttons bumper stickers pins etc and other left wing propaganda. Let’s not pretend please that this is only a right wing issue
I’m all for these pins. Just like the comments section, you get to find out who the morons and a-holes are.
@C_M I was willing to accept your argument, and I said so. I figured that would be the end, but apparently, you decided, NO, I’M GONNA SAY THE SAME THING, EVEN LOUDER. I don’t know what the point of your second posting even was, it was a lot of work for no additional point. I guess you felt so good finding an acorn, you just kept on a diggin the same hole.
None of this changes that NikoZ was right in the core of his statement. The reference to slavery is incidental to the point about the present. The Republican party’s power exists in the country mainly because of an undemocratic Senate and Electoral college. It privileges land over people. and my points still stand as to how those institutions have cascading impacts on other branches of government.
None of that would stop Koggerj from his usual unhinged rants.
Another political post…..
K Helldoge says. “If the world wasn’t pull of bigoted, racist, delusional A**HOles like yourselves, there would be no need for BLM. And insofar as FJB, he won. Get over it, losers.”
You are the loser my friend. Everyday when you pay$5-$6 for a gallon of gas, empty store shelves, rising inflation, rising interest rates, illegal immigration and so on. Do you now understand how stupid your comments and those of the other Sleepy Joe fans are? We are all losers under the current administration except maybe those of us who are on welfare.
@C.Morgan – I think you are missing the point. When did airlines say it was alright for their employees to have “fu.k Trump” pins or buttons? Never. I don’t even know if there is a reported case of an employee wearing such a button against the rules. That something you deem to be “the left” might have had such pins or buttons is irrelevant to the blog post, which is about employees wearing an LGB button.
@Steve – Be careful what you wish for, you might get it. And you’re wrong again.
Total national votes for the House of Representatives favored the Republicans in 2016, 2014, 2010, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, and 1994.
Admittedly, that is a flawed statistic, for many reasons, primarily lack of an opposing candidate or viable candidate in many races, but the same can be said for the presidential vote, where no Republicans are often on the ballot in lower California elections due to their jungle primary, and everyone knows the state is going for whatever D is on the top of the ballot, so why would Republicans even show up? But even so, it indicates your argument that Republicans don’t win elections through the popular vote is a lie.
But thanks for playing our game.
It was never ‘cute’, it was always a mark of ignorance
@Steve
No you and NikoZ were both proven wrong and you still refuse to acknowledge reality. Like most lefties you speak of a script of talking points you’ve memorized.
@C_M
Dude, you can’t say “You’re wrong” and then argue against something I never said to prove your point. I said the GOP lost the popular vote in the last 7 of 8 Presidential elections. That’s what I said. You then went to discuss the House votes. Had nothing to do with what I said. Then you said, “it indicates your argument that Republicans don’t win elections through the popular vote is a lie.” Again, that wasn’t what I said. I said the Electoral College is not democratic, therefore the Presidential contest is problematic. I also said gerrymandering is a problem, but that’s because it causes outsized victories for the GOP. I didn’t say the GOP never wins an election. But if a state has the GOP win 51% of a state’s total House vote but send 7 of the state’s 9 representatives to Congress, that’s not a working democracy.
@Koggerj
You have deep and serious issues.
@Steve
You’re the one with outlandish and mentally ill political opinions.
Steve you are the one missing the point who obviously only reads posts associated with left wing rhetoric. There was just a case earlier this year where a FA was disciplined for having a F…Trump pin on her work bag and a customer complained. There have been multiple other incidents you simply need to do an internet search.
@CMORGAN
I said “I don’t know” because it wasn’t my point and I didn’t much care. But, sure, let’s do a Duck Duck Go search using “flight attendant fuck trump” and… hundreds of hits about bad behavior by Trump people. Nothing about flight attendants wearing Fuck Trump flare. I mean, whatever. Wasn’t my point.
@Steve – You can’t even keep track of your own arguments. You said: “The Republican party’s power exists in the country mainly because of an undemocratic Senate and Electoral college. It privileges land over people. and my points still stand as to how those institutions have cascading impacts on other branches of government.” I then went on to show that the Republicans do, in fact, win majorities in some election years, wrecking your argument that they only hold power because of the Senate and Electoral College.
Furthermore, we are not a democracy and never have been, so it’s not a surprise we aren’t one. The Founders explicitly rejected democracy as unstable and dangerous, instead choosing a Constitutional Republic with elected representatives and separated powers. The gridlock is intentional, which you will appreciate after November 2022 and 2024, just like you appreciated it from 2016-20 and 2000-08.
As for the Electoral College, the rules have always been 50 state elections, not one national one. Again, the Founders explicitly rejected that model as placing too much power in the hands of a few large states. Even if you changed electoral votes to the number of state representatives, I’m not sure you would change many election outcomes. And it’s difficult to know the results because people didn’t vote under those circumstances. If they voted like Nebraska or Maine, always an option – but you don’t see California lining up to dilute the winner take all formula, people might behave differently. And we have never had proportional representation – that sounds good on paper, put it produces tremendously unstable governments usually controlled by tiny minorities.
Funny think about election laws is, everyone is in favor of changing them to favor their own side until their opponent controls the levers of power. That filibuster is evil until your side is in the minority. Remember Chesterton’s Fence – Reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. Before tearing down the newly discovered fence with no apparent purpose, you might want to find out why it was built in the first place.
@C_M
I said that “The Republican party’s power exists in the country mainly because of an undemocratic Senate and Electoral college. It privileges land over people. and my points still stand as to how those institutions have cascading impacts on other branches of government.” This statement is not in the slightest way “wrecked” by you pointing out that Republicans can win elections in the House. Of course, Republicans *can* win elections. I never said those institutions were the ONLY reason the GOP wins elections. I said they were MAINLY the reasons the Republican party holds POWER, and, indeed, the Senate and EC are the two largest levers by which the GOP holds power, far outsized of their numbers. These lever in turn affect other mechanisms of governance, such as the judiciary – nominated by a President who won the EC and confirmed by the Senate. A judiciary controlled by GOP-nominated judges then allows, via court cases, one party to have even more control over various election mechanisms, such as who votes, if their votes are counted at all, and in which jurisdiction those votes are allotted.
The “we’re a republic not a democracy” argument is ridiculous and always has been. Of course we’re a democracy, and we always have been. We’re a representative democracy, just not a direct democracy. Power rests with the people who elect representatives, which ultimately is a majoritarian system. The question has been, who are the people? Who is being represented? The US has become more and more a complete and truly representative democracy with time, with the 15th, 17th, and 19th amendments and the Civil Rights acts. However, the Republican party continues to maintain its degree of power in the US mainly by anti-majoritarian mechanisms, activity, and arguments. Among the many forms of this is the Senate that equates the vast empty land of Wyoming and Nebraska over the huge population centers of California and New York, leading to laws that favor a political party far outside the degree to which it should based on numbers of people alone and mathematically leads to bias within the Electoral College, where even a few votes could decide the difference in who wins vast power for years and stacks the deck of other levers of power.
Have the problems that led to the meme really gone away? Doesn’t seem that way.