Presidential election, 2016

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(12-19-2016, 04:42 PM)Galen Wrote:

(12-14-2016, 12:56 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(12-14-2016, 08:50 AM)radind Wrote: The election is not over yet.

If this election is not overturned, then I doubt one will ever be.  In other words, the EC is useless as an institution.  Worse, it tilts the power to small states (typically rural) at the expense of the larger ones.  Individual California voters are much less powerful than individual voters from Wyoming.  In fact, each Wyoming elector represents 195 thousand people and each California elector represents 711 thousand, for a ratio of 3.65:1.

That is the point, to prevent smaller states being completely swamped out.

I am more concerned about liberalism being snuffed out in America.

Except for Louisiana, Texas, California, Hawaii, and Alaska the states west of the Appalachians were artificial creations with no heritage before the Constitutional era. It made sense to protect Rhode Island and Vermont from Virginia and New York. Virginia couldn't really control Kentucky and North Carolina couldn't control Tennessee.

I can make the case that Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas could as easily have been one state. Did you realize that North and South Dakota east of the north-south segment of the Missouri River were at one time part of Michigan Territory? 



As of January 20, I am far more scared of a President with a dictatorial style and a Congress that will enable him to trample over civil liberties of Americans who disagree with him and impose a highly-unpopular, extremist agenda. There might in effect be a bill of rights for capital and bureaucratic privilege within for-profit entities while the rest of America gets kicked.

All hail the Master Class of the Corporate States of America!

Cue music -- "Imperial March" from Star Wars. America is about to become the Evil Empire.