Truth Detector (03-21-2019)
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she's a clueless fraud the electoral college was designed just like the Congress for the same reasonsWarren also came out in favor of eliminating of the electoral college, the most pointed instance of her opposition to the polarizing mechanism the nation uses to elect its presidents.
She has been critical of the electoral college in the past, saying last year that Trump’s 2016 victory — despite Democrat Hillary Clinton’s winning 3 million more total votes — is “not exactly the sign of a healthy democracy.”
Truth Detector (03-21-2019)
Did you read the definition?
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative government or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy."
I'm good with electing Congressmen and Senators.
"I often hear people argue that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that’s a false dichotomy. A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, “A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them” — we are that. A common definition of “democracy” is, “Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives” — we are that, too."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.f8192692e7c5
Seems to me that talk of reparations is no different to buying votes. Strangely enough that is something that 'shithole countries' do a lot.
Darth Omar (03-20-2019), Earl (03-20-2019)
Bigdog (03-20-2019), Darth Omar (03-20-2019), Truth Detector (03-20-2019)
We have a first past the post system here, there have been several attempts to introduce proportional representation but they've always floundered.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8623696.html
Winston Churchill is re-elected as Prime Minister, with the Conservatives and their allies the National Liberals winning 321 seats. This is despite Labour candidates receiving over 230,000 more votes, and only 295 going to Westminster.
General Elections, Feb. 1974
Harold Wilson is elected as Prime Minister with a minority government, with 4 more seats than the Tories (301-297). This is despite the latter party receiving over 226,000 more votes.
General Elections in England, 2005
Even though Labour wins the most seats in England (286) over 64,000 more English voters cast their ballot for a Conservative candidate, but only 194 are sent to Westminster (although Labour still wins the popular vote UK-wide).
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/in...=206047.0;wap2
Earl (03-20-2019), Truth Detector (03-20-2019)
its ironic......she has to be president to change the electoral college but because of the electoral college she won't be president.........
Bigdog (03-20-2019), Truth Detector (03-20-2019)
Yes, I read your guiding principle and accept your concession that you do not support "the will of the majority".
The Senate gives disproportionate representation and power to low pop. States. Why do you support keeping the Senate?
You trash your own principles when convenient.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Truth Detector (03-20-2019)
Has a single Trump prediction made by the left come true lol?
I can’t think of one.
The EC is important in presidential politics because it forces everyone to the middle. That’s why both liberals and conservatives are forced to ‘pivot to the middle’ after surviving their respective primaries. So the EC serves as a moderating force in that sense.
As it stands, a Warren or a Bernie are way out in left field with respect to large swathes of the electorate in various regions. And since they would plausibly carry the hyper-populated regions and become President via pure democracy, then the results would be predictable.
And quite plausibly, not very pretty.
How about democrats moderate their message after winning their primary instead of making wholesale changes to the system just so they can win?
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Truth Detector (03-20-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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