12-02-2016, 03:10 PM
(12-02-2016, 02:21 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: There can be no further good arguments for the system designed to keep the slaveowners in power. Hillary Clinton won this election by about 3 million votes, and yet we are stuck with a tyrant because of the mistakes of 70,000 or so deceived Rust Belt victims. We could have had an intelligent, capable, experienced, compassionate, dedicated, moderate president, who would have acted on the actual concerns of ALL the people INCLUDING those in the Rust Belt; instead we are enslaved to the worst and most extremist "president" in our history, concerned only with himself; in order to protect the interests of 1789 slaveowners, and to allow a minority party to keep giving us the worst presidents in our history to benefit the 1%. There is no argument left for the electoral college at all. This is not some kind of fluke, like in the year 2000. This is a huge, indelible, creepy stain, both on the peculiar institution and on America.
We are stuck with it because of the greedy slaveowners who now rule Amerikkka. The only issue is what we do from here. There are only two answers. Resist, or leave. If you don't think the concerns of 9 million Californians matter, and those of 70,000 deceived voters in the Rust Belt are the only ones who do matter, that attitude is a good recipe for secession. Only 32% of California voters wanted the Drumpenfuhrer. We voted that way to send a powerful message. Message sent. We repudiate the Drumpenfuhrer, and he is not our president. We reject the CEO of America Inc.
The EC came about partially to prevent a demagogue like Trump getting elected by a direct popular vote and also because politics at the beginning of the republic was much more regional and there were concerns that people in each state would just vote for their local candidates so the idea was developed that people would vote for electors, instead, who would then go and argue over a compromise candidate all the states could agree on.
Of course this system never worked as originally intended and by the election of Andrew Jackson we arrived essentially at the farce we have today. The system meant to stop a someone like Trump has made him President, instead.
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