Re: The electoral college issue we forgot
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 12:28 pm
I look at things as they really happened. For me, to look only to the electorial college and not the hacking and influence of foreign powers (which will happen again) with Cambridge Analytica and the fact that Trump got elected playing on hate, division and fears in society and by blaming others who don't determine economic policy such as foreign born Americans would be an oversimplification of what happened.
I do agree that the electorial college system is not democracy but should have ended with slavery but I see no reason why we should rule anything out when we look back at history. Perhaps if Clinton would have visited the rust belt once things would have turned out differently. In fact her husband wanted her to but he got overruled by her campaign.
Nevermind that we haven't discussed the numbers of votes that were not counted and the lack of voting machines in places like Detroit.
For me, the real irony is that the US is now trying to flip the results of Maduro's election by choosing a puppet and saying Maduro's wasn't legitimately elected. Oh the irony! I wonder how Americans would feel if foreign powers removed Trump by force.
Yes, we need to take the necessary steps to throw out the electorial college. If we had a national holiday for voting that would happen. The problem is the GOP has no desire to have national holiday for voting and GOP has no desire to have people vote. So the we should aim high but first we would have to get people to vote in Democratic candidates to office even if they don't agree with that candidate on every issue.
The irony is that the GOP doesn't even have an agenda from what I can tell except tax cuts for the riches which do nothing for the "forgotten man" (just look at Kansas) and deregulation which also does nothing for the "forgetten man." Seems to me the only goal of the GOP is stop history.
Yes, end the electorial college but until that happens I would rather have people follow and be aware of all things that affect elections than only look at one thing and have them give up.
I do agree that the electorial college system is not democracy but should have ended with slavery but I see no reason why we should rule anything out when we look back at history. Perhaps if Clinton would have visited the rust belt once things would have turned out differently. In fact her husband wanted her to but he got overruled by her campaign.
Nevermind that we haven't discussed the numbers of votes that were not counted and the lack of voting machines in places like Detroit.
For me, the real irony is that the US is now trying to flip the results of Maduro's election by choosing a puppet and saying Maduro's wasn't legitimately elected. Oh the irony! I wonder how Americans would feel if foreign powers removed Trump by force.
Yes, we need to take the necessary steps to throw out the electorial college. If we had a national holiday for voting that would happen. The problem is the GOP has no desire to have national holiday for voting and GOP has no desire to have people vote. So the we should aim high but first we would have to get people to vote in Democratic candidates to office even if they don't agree with that candidate on every issue.
The irony is that the GOP doesn't even have an agenda from what I can tell except tax cuts for the riches which do nothing for the "forgotten man" (just look at Kansas) and deregulation which also does nothing for the "forgetten man." Seems to me the only goal of the GOP is stop history.
Yes, end the electorial college but until that happens I would rather have people follow and be aware of all things that affect elections than only look at one thing and have them give up.