Dave Thomas Grandview Committeeman

09/01/2026

So the same legislature that represents the will of the people every two years from election day, to election day, does not represent the "will of the people" whenever some of the people, 170,000, signers, in 6 out of 8 Congressional districts, want to change the Constitution that defines the structure of the whole government itself.

And that's okay using a mass state wide vote expressly excluding a direct vote calculation in each of those same districts?

While also expressly excluding the Constitutionally chosen political deliberation body, of elected legislature chosen by the will of the people throughout the whole State by direct vote in every equal population boundary designed for equal representation of every single citizen equal within the interior of the whole State?

Is this too much to process in reasonable conversation?

Here's the initial Petition Law:
"Constitutional Amendments: Signatures must equal at least 8% of the total votes cast for governor in the previous election, collected in each of at least six of the state's eight congressional districts."
Which amounts to about 170,000 people.
Okay?

But the same voters in equal population boundary polling [all equal citizens with citizens desiring to make the change] must not be included to express a directly polled vote in equal deliberation, in any of those same districts where signatures were originally required to be solicited from?

Does that seem fair to you, citizen to equal citizen? 🤔

09/01/2026

I just heard Bernie say, something he wants to happen based on equal "human rights".

Only problem is he doesn't actually believe in human rights, as endowed by God unalienable, rather than invented and conferred governmentally by men like himself.

He wants you and me to think he does, and that his opinions for granting each other "human rights" according to his own opinions, are greater than yours, even greater than God's.

How could he actually uphold the Declaration and adhere to the limitations of our Constitutional framing, with his extreme views?

This is the real tension all Democrats struggle with.

He can recite the Declaration and pretend he is sourcing it, to gift the self invented "important rights of the 21st century", but still they are only the ones men like him vote into existence, no matter what burden is placed by them upon the working citizens to fulfill it.

In the original American view, those are policies, sometimes generous, sometimes costly, in each administration, but not unalienable human rights as endowed equal by God.

Policies can be argued.

Unalienable rights are not supposed to be replaced by a grant from Bernie Sanders or anyone else.

09/01/2026

Its not so much about what people want as though we do not have a Constitutional foundation existing with some level of equal buy in, we are talking about the Constitution in which every person has equal rights from, the issue is some people want more from it than that.

And that's a problem.

And some people say that equal is enough, if you want something more that other people do not want, then get it fairly through legislation.

Not changes to the Constitution, the more you change it the less buy in some people will have in it.

If it does not improve a greater buy in for all, how many equal people in total, could say no and you respect that?

Simple Statewide majority is not adequate for that conversation. As they're will always be up to half the people who disagree.

Just like a confederacy of States was not adequate for getting rights that the rest of the Nation held to be wrong!

We held to the Declaration in that case, that all men are created equal.

And every person and population district throughout the State should have an equal say so about changes to our Constitution that affect the form of government and solicitation of voluntary consent that we must all consider.

If 170,000 people can start the conversation, if that few can start it then 395,000 in any one of 8 should be able to say no to it. However a major majority said no to that in Amendment 4.

Nobody has lost anything in not changing the Constitution, but that is more possible when unwanted change is made.

Now we need to get at least a majority in 6 out of 8 districts in my opinion to have a fair and equal deliberative decision to change our Constitution!

08/31/2026

The way we make decisions together is the most important aspect of our mutual respect, and voluntary consent in common defense of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness!

Together as one people, one family, inside each State, and from State to State to form the Nation!

08/31/2026

Too many Democrats appear unaware of the corner they have painted themselves into.

Ideological confusion and contradictory demands undermine the very “more perfect Union” they claim to want.

Anger, threats, abusive rhetoric, court-packing schemes, calls to end two-senators-per-state, and efforts to abolish the Electoral College do not produce equality.

They do not secure voluntary consent.

They do not offer a durable answer to the real pressures on statewide and national peace.

What does work is the system we already have:

1 Equal representation of the people, district by district, every two years in the House.

2 Equal standing of every whole State with every other whole State in the Senate.

3 A President chosen every four years through the Electoral College that makes every whole State equal for choosing one.

This compound and well balanced design is how America stays both representative and united.

Missouri can go one step further.

A concurrent-majority requirement for changes to our state Constitution, balancing the statewide popular majority and majority support across equal population districts, would give every person in every region a genuine equal direct vote deliberation process for ratification of every internal Statewide decision, and make the Show-Me State even stronger still.

08/31/2026

Democracy is good for half the people, an equal representative Republic is good for all.

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

Reasonable explanation for a healthy transition from our former terrible beef management to a greater one! Long term!

God bless Donald Trump, God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏 👏 🙌 ❤️ Amen!

08/30/2026

Here is a great solution! Let's do this if I get elected!