Reply With QuoteEarl (09-04-2019)
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The insanity and stupidity of the undemocratic Electoral College explained
We Should Run The Presidential Election The Way We Run EVERY Other Election
Relegate this antiquated mess to the dustbin of history already!
Earl (09-04-2019)
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Yeah, like we need a lecture for one of the dumbest fucks in television. Yawn!
It's dishonest morons like you and Hayes that concerned the founders of this great nation the most.
"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
Originally Posted by Nomad
dukkha (09-03-2019), Earl (09-04-2019), Sirthinksalot (09-04-2019), Wolverine (09-04-2019)
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The idiot who started this thread is a testimony to how profoundly our liberal educational institutions are failing our children. When one isn't even taught why there is an electoral college or what is contained in the Constitution, they are left with true ignorance.
"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
Into the Night (09-03-2019), MAGA MAN (09-03-2019), Sirthinksalot (09-04-2019)
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Are you saying Republican presidents couldn't be elected without the electoral college?
Well, I AM SAYING IT LOUD AND CLEAR!
That is the only reason why we've had the last two Republican presidents.
All of our Democrat presidents did it the real and honest way- By winning the POPULAR VOTE!
Let's go Brandon!
MSNBC, lol.
To illustrate just how dumb this scheme is, consider the fact that without the electoral college, a handful of counties would decide everything.
Callinectes (09-05-2019), Truth Detector (09-03-2019), Wolverine (09-04-2019)
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The President of the United States is not elected by popular vote, dumbass.
Callinectes (09-05-2019), Truth Detector (09-03-2019), USFREEDOM911 (09-03-2019)
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the EC was an imperfect solution the framers dreamed up...……completely outdated and useless in modern times:
The system makes so little 21st (and really 19th or 20th) century sense that as scores of new nations have made the transition to democracies, and as they studied the varieties of democratic systems already in existence, none have adopted the Electoral College model for choosing a president.
In fact, if the Electoral College system wasn’t in the Constitution, it would almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional because the apportionment of electoral votes
violates the principle of one-person, one-vote.
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the framers wanted to create a powerful new executive branch — something that had been missing from the first national American government organized under the Articles of Confederation in the middle of the War for Independence. But the Philadelphia convention was stymied over how to choose a president.
The solution that would seem obvious to modern eyes — hold a national election and whoever gets the most votes take office — seemed unimaginable to most of the framers.
The framers were smart and well-intentioned, but had plenty of blind spots. They were leery of too much democracy, which is why only one of the four power centers they created (the House of Representatives) was to be directly elected.
The more often overlooked blind spot that led to the Electoral College system was the framers’ thoughts — or lack of thoughts — about political parties. The framers didn’t foresee the development of national political parties (even though the first two-party system took shape almost immediately after ratification). 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.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politic...le-sense-today
Cinnabar (09-03-2019)
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No Shit Sherlock!
What I am saying is we have never had a Democrat president who didn't win both the necessary delegate votes and the overall POPULAR VOTE!
Sorry you are too stupid to understand that!
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No; I am saying that without the electoral college, a majority of smaller States would lose representation. We are a Republic of States, not a pure democracy. It prevents high population states like Texas, California and New York from deciding every election.
Had you received a proper education, you would have known this instead of looking a moron asking stupid questions.
That's because you are an uneducated dullard with the intelligence of a lemming.
You lack the intelligence to comprehend how stupid you look.
"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
dukkha (09-03-2019)
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...in New York, Texas and California.
"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
MAGA MAN (09-03-2019)
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It makes perfect sense to someone who isn't an uneducated dumbass. We are a Republic of States. Without the EC, three or four states would decide the outcome of every election.
The founders we extremely intelligent and smart in how they constructed the Republic to prevent it from becoming a third world Fascistic shit hole the Democratic Party of the Jackass would turn it into.
"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
MAGA MAN (09-03-2019)
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Apparently you're too stupid to comprehend that your statement is worthless. It doesn't matter. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the Presidency. Not a majority of the popular vote.
Had you been educated, instead of indoctrinated with stupidity, you could comprehend the OBVIOUS and not look like an ignoramus.
"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
Classical Liberal
Let him whine if it makes him feel better. The Constitution will not change.
dukkha (09-03-2019), Stretch (09-03-2019), Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
Let's go Brandon!
These idiots think that the US of A should be a democracy. Such dumbasses.
Into the Night (09-04-2019), Truth Detector (09-03-2019)
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No, currently he is elected by geography, find it hard to believe that the Founding Fathers would endorse the process
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