i dont really mind EC or no EC.
What I do find appalling is agreeing to an EC election beforehand then whining because you lost by EC rules and declaring the election illegitimate.
"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
i dont really mind EC or no EC.
What I do find appalling is agreeing to an EC election beforehand then whining because you lost by EC rules and declaring the election illegitimate.
PostmodernProphet (09-03-2019), Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
"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
Nope. The reason for the Electoral College hasn't changed. It is still in use today, after over 200 years of being in the Constitution.
There are currently no democracies anywhere on Earth.
There are currently no democracies anywhere on Earth.
So?
There are currently no democracies anywhere on Earth. Each member of the Electoral College gets one vote.
For the reasons that have already been described to you, but which you ignore.
Not a blind spot.
There are currently no democracies anywhere on Earth. The United States is not a democracy and never has been.
It isn't. It is elected by popular vote by district.
Not a blind spot.
Political parties existed since before the United States, dumbass.
National political parties existed since before the United States, dumbass.
National political parties existed since before the United States, dumbass.
The current two largest parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, formed out of similar parties in the past. The current form of the Democrat party was formed in 1828 and became a national party in 1834. It has little to do with the Democrat Party formed by Jefferson in 1792. The Republican Party formed out of the Whig Party in 1854 and became a national party in 1860, about 63 years after the Constitution itself was ordained to power.
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Without parties to nominate candidates and organize their supporters, without a national media, without a tradition (which didn’t come for more than 100 years) of candidates traveling around the country begging for votes, the framers couldn’t picture how, after George Washington left the scene, there would be political leaders with sufficient national reputations among ordinary voters to support a national election. In 1787, two national parties known as the Federalist Party (who later became Democrats after a few name changes) and the Democrat-Republican party (which became the Republican Party after a few name changes) vied for control of the new government. George Washington was elected by the Electoral College and served his first term starting in 1789.
You really need to get your history from someplace besides shows on PBS that try to minimize and discard the Constitution of the United States.
Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
No State is a democracy either. Each State is a republic, with the current exception of California, which is no longer a State since is no longer honors either the Constitution of the United States nor it's own State constitution.
The United States is not a democracy at all. It is organized as a federated republic.
Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
The now disgraced electoral college is ultimately at fault for putting this demagogue, tyrant and thug tRump on civilization and humanity to be a menacing tyrant in violation of U.S. Constitutional law. This includes tRump who's mission is to destroy democracy, the lawful rights of all, the well being of society and the common decency of civilization. Therefore, as a result of tRump and his team of goons being criminals against humanity as a threat to the global economy and humanity, the electoral college at outliving its usefulness should be dismantled and done away with forever. As demonstrated as a result of this tRump atrocity, the electoral college has become very dangerous and destructive because if it were not for this corrupted electoral college in cahoots with antigovernment conspiring GOPer cronies, America would truly be great again.
Cinnabar (09-03-2019)
Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
"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
Stretch (09-03-2019)
"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
Truth Detector (09-04-2019)
I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you
Stretch (09-03-2019), Truth Detector (09-04-2019)
They put the thug Obama and the thug Clinton in the White House too, you know.
Trump is no tyrant.
There are currently no democracies in the world.
* It is the Democrat party that wants to take away my guns, denying me my right to defend myself and the 2nd amendment in the process.
* It is the Democrat party that wants to lock people up for what they say about global warming.
* It is the Democrat party that wants to support bigotry and racism.
* It is the Democrat party that wants to take the money I earn and give to someone else that isn't productive.
* It is the Democrat party that wants to ignore or overthrow the Constitution of the United States.
* It is the Democrat Party that.... I'm not going to write it all again.
* It is the Democrat Party that...you know the rest.
What crimes?
What threat?
What inhumanity?
Why? Because it elected both Obama and Clinton?
Obama and Clinton are not GOP cronies.
In case you haven't noticed, America is great. It is unique in the world.
Truth Detector (09-04-2019)
Truth Detector (09-04-2019)
Aside from all of this other malarkey you put here, President Obama and President Clinton did not recruit Russians to hack the election in their favor nor did they use antigovernment conspiring GOPer cronies to manipulate the electoral college in their favor either in violation of U.S. Constitutional law like your beloved Fuhrer and Putin puppet tRump did.
MAGA MAN (09-03-2019)
Cinnabar (09-03-2019)
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