Jerome (01-15-2021)
Hello Darth Omar,
I disagree. It's 50 separate elections. The States run them as they see fit. The only changes I would like to see would encourage more voting, not less. Republican voter suppression is out of hand. We know why they do that. The larger the election, the less chance Republicans have to win. Trump lost because he motivated more people to vote against him than for him.
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Jerome (01-15-2021)
Hello Dutch Uncle,
Trump is the living epitome of Alexander Hamilton's concern:
Hamilton: "The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”"
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Doc Dutch (01-15-2021)
If Trump said the one thing we the reasonable want him to say I don't think it would calm down his most ardent followers.
It would probably set them off.
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That’s the narrative.
We need more uniformity from state to state. States shouldn’t be able to arbitrarily bend rules/make new rules ‘cuz COVID’; it’s ridiculous that a FL can be done counting relatively early while other states stop counting/start counting and it drags on through the wee hours of the morning. That sort of thing invites skepticism on the part of voters.
And it’s an international embarrassment. Even Putin was mocking us.
Coup has started. First of many steps. Impeachment will follow ultimately~WB attorney Mark Zaid, January 2017
Into the Night (01-16-2021)
Thanks for an interesting quote. It piqued me to look it up: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/...son-alexander/
The fight between Jefferson and Hamilton set the stage for ideologies still running strongly through each party. Those old ideologies are threaded with, IMO, too many newer, more selfish ideologies. The result is the mess we see today; too many people thinking only of themselves and not about what they are leaving behind.
I didn't read the entire set of documents but will do so tonight.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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