After Muellur, what next?

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  1. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    From the Economist, here: After Mueller, what next? - excerpt:

    Find the flaw in America's "democracy". There are several - first and foremost of which is its electoral-system. More than two centuries ago, within four years of one another, the US conceived and implemented Gerrymandering and the Electoral College. Which has very largely resulted in first the evolution of a two-party system. And secondly, that the result would be not representative governance but one of "which party has the most money to get their candidate elected" ...
     
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    The electoral system is not a flaw. It was intended to give the gov'ts of the states an equal voice in electing POTUS, ensuring the slave states could not ride roughshod over the North.

    As far as the Electoral college fostering a two party system, you need to study history a bit more deeply. The Englis already had a two party system a century or so before the Revolution. the founding fathers only recreated what they knew.
     
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    Equal voice "me arse"! There is only one voice in an election and it is that of the popular-vote!

    Any fair&honest electoral voting system is purely the decision of the popular-vote. You obviously do not understand the definition of "popular-vote". (All else is a "manipulation" of the popular-vote. It should be illegal, but isn't!)

    Dictionary definition of the "popular-vote" from here:
    And why are these definitions important? Because the last election should have told you that the real winner was not Donald Dork but Hillary Clinton!

    Apparently you do not understand the popular-vote outcome (by which Clinton beat Trump) by a healthy margin. Clinton received 2.87 million more votes nationwide (the largest margin ever for a candidate who lost the electoral college); that is, a margin of 2.1%!
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    Obviously you have not studied American history. Too bad. Calling a system that works the way it was designed to 'flawed' is an error. Calling it flawed because it doesn't work the way you want it to is just whining.
     
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    The design was flawed for various reasons lost in the history of the US. But factually, this is what has happened (from here):
    Twice in 20-years it has happened recently. And it will happen again, and again, and again.

    It's high-time that we fix it ... !
     
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    And you refuse to understand HOW IT WORKS WRONGLY ... !
     
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    THE BASIC RIGHT OF VOTING FAIRNESS

    "Equal voice?" WHAT EQUAL VOICE! You mean the one based upon Fraudulent Voting-Practices! (Like Gerrymandering and the Electoral College?)

    And you call that a fair and honest democratic republic!?!

    You are writing nonsense. The purpose of the Electoral College is to collect the results of the popular-vote. Then IT WRONGLY MANIPULATES THE POPULAR-VOTE BY ALLOCATING ALL THE EC-VOTES (BASED UPON THE POPULATION OF THE STATE) TO THE SUPPOSED MAJORITY "WINNER" IN A NATIONAL ELECTION.

    As if voters in the state who voted for the LOSER CANDIDATE had no right to vote whatsoever and their votes are not counted but discarded!

    Which is how Hillary just lost the last election - BECAUSE SHE WON IT UPON THE TOTAL POPULAR-VOTE by a significantly large margin of over 2%!


    You have no sense whatsoever of the basic right of Voting Fairness. in other words: justice, impartiality, justness, decency, honesty, probity, rectitude, uprightness, truth, integrity, charity, veracity, tolerance, right, candor, honor, balance, moderation, civility, consideration, good faith, propriety, courtesy, reasonableness, rationality, humanity, rightness, equity, equitableness ...
     
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    We don't live in a democracy.
    Is this hard?
     
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    Give her a cookie.
     
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    Doesn't matter.

    The Founding Fathers were, brilliant, by creating the electoral college.

    This compels American society, to always come full circle/over and over/come back to descendants of The Mayflower yes sir therefore super-delegates are a beautiful thing no doubt indeed :)
     
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    Cockamamie response. The unmanipulated popular-vote is the ONLY true and acceptable means of election of any political office in the land. Except one. The PotUS!

    You are living in the 18th-century, and it is the present that matters. Which is why the unfairly elected Donald Trump is trying to stuff the Supreme Court* in order to assure that NO CHANGE OCCURS in the electoral process. (Because enough Americans were dumb-enough to allow him to do it!)

    Such that the unacceptable errors of Gerrymandering and the Electoral College remain to pollute the electoral process of the Greatest Country on Earth?

    Who are you trying to kid, other than yourself ... ?

    *Which is yet another mistake - that is, of political judgement that is made a lifetime career. Especially because "lifespan" has been extended so greatly since the original constitution was written and signed. The Supreme Court needs more "turnover" to prevent its political ossification by just one party!
     
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    Giggles
     
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    Clearly, you have me mistaken for a different member here. Good luck with that.
     
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    An equal voice or the individual states, yes. The vote was manifestly unfair, being held only by property owning males.

    Obviously you have not studied history. the EC was instituted to prevent the voters from making a mistake. In fact, the general vote was not even taken in the first Presidential elections, just the votes of the Senate and the House.



    The voters for the loser are always treated as if they had no vote; after all, the other candidate is given the office.

    Hillary knew the rules. Bitching about them later is, IMO, whining.

    You have no idea what you're talking about. The rules are the same for all candidates. So much for your set of principles as they are all met. Substituting passion for ogic in a debate will not win you points.
     
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    Again, calling a system flawed because it doesn't give the results you want is whining.

    BTW, I'm not a Trump supporter.
     
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    THE ARTIFICIAL REDUCTION OF MARKET-COMPETITION IN THE US

    Come to think of it, what has happened in the US is as if Uncle Sam were still in the 19th century, before the Civil War, and the advent of the Industrial Age.

    It was the that historical fact for which the Civil War was started. Because historically the US was turning from the Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age. Which meant what?

    That markets were becoming ossified under the control of BigBusiness that had "industrialized". The BigMoney was no longer in owning land and producing agriculture.

    Which is why America evolved its Anti-Trust Laws, as described by WikiPedia here: United States antitrust law - excerpt:
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    Unfortunately, we have allowed in the US over the past 30-years, and particularly since the advent of the Internet, companies to be "agglomerated" by the buyout process that has become popular over that time-period. The consequence of which is to artificially reduce competition AND REMAINS WHOLLY ILLEGAL ...

    PS: Further reading - Economics Online - Barriers [Market] to entry
     
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    Your wish for direct democracy was to be shunned because it always fails. That is the reason for the Electoral College. There are so many negative issues with what you suggest that it begs belief that you don't know them. Must be the lack of civics training in schools.
     
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