The electoral college issue we forgot
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:37 am
So for the 2nd time in under 20 years the vote of the people did not elect the leader, but the vote of the electoral collage did. Actually let me rephrase that. Twice in under 20 years Americans were shown that they don't actually have a system that elects who they voted for, but a system that hopefully parallels who the government voted for.
The most recent time it happened (Trump elected) people's thoughts were redirected from "hey there's something wrong with this electoral process" to "Russia hacked the election" and we've never gone down that path of thinking again. By saying Russia hacked it makes it sound like "they changed the vote you cast", thereby indirectly leading your line of thinking. Even if they did release Hillary's emails (this thread is not about whether that occurred or not) there was no hacking of votes, as it's made to sound.
So when are people going to refocus on the fact we don't really have a democratically elected government? And that we may never have had one (because it's the electoral college that determines who's in charge)?
THAT should be the movement we get behind. Get rid of the e.c. in favor of democracy.
The most recent time it happened (Trump elected) people's thoughts were redirected from "hey there's something wrong with this electoral process" to "Russia hacked the election" and we've never gone down that path of thinking again. By saying Russia hacked it makes it sound like "they changed the vote you cast", thereby indirectly leading your line of thinking. Even if they did release Hillary's emails (this thread is not about whether that occurred or not) there was no hacking of votes, as it's made to sound.
So when are people going to refocus on the fact we don't really have a democratically elected government? And that we may never have had one (because it's the electoral college that determines who's in charge)?
THAT should be the movement we get behind. Get rid of the e.c. in favor of democracy.