The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy

NY Times ^ | February 28, 2019 | Jamelle Bouie

[CodeToad]

Well, did you expect anything but stupidity and ignorance from a paper run by mexicans?

Mexicans know nothing of America, freedoms, or a constitutional republic.

[Travis McGee]

Good question.

[M Kehoe]

Sheesh.

The U.S. is a constitutional Republic. Why is this so difficult for some people to understand?

5.56mm

[Old Yeller]

That guy needs some history lessons.

[wastoute]

I am serious about this proposal: what’s to stop millions of us, even tens of millions of us from just giving up? Just assemble in Montana and then take advantage of Open Borders and sort of mosey over to Canada? It would take Canada months and $Billions to mobilize against us and then we can just stroll down to Mexico for the winter. If the world wants Open Borders lets take advantage of it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The electoral college is one of the few things left of the Republic.

[wastoute]

Notice I didn’t even include San Francisco. No one here would risk anything to defend that.

[Reily]

Two words with too many syllables!

[hanamizu]

Never happen. Blue state legislatures would immediately reconvene after the November election and give their votes to the democrat who won their state. The only purpose of the ‘interstate compact’ is to deny Republicans the Presidency.

[TheZMan]

Have? Barely. Closer to “had”.

[Old Yeller]

Careful how you pronounce Jamelles last name. Could get you in trouble, you racists.

[SMARTY]

What’s wrong with a system that worked wonderfully for 200+ years and all of the sudden, doesn’t work any more?

[ealgeone]

Sadly, you’re way more right than most want to admit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Left is making a full-bore push to destroy it.
And I’m afraid that eventually they’ll succeed.

[BadLands59]

Well, if the NYT wasn’t already a flaming pile of dog poo, adding Jamelle BooHooey as a contributor ought to finish it off. He’s a professional race-baiter, victim, and whiner from Slate.

[Travis McGee]

If the USA slides into CW2, I think this will trigger a global depression, and China will be busy at home, or with taking Taiwan, Manchuria, Malaysia, the P.I., New Zealand etc while we are unable to do anything about it.

If Chinese troops ever land on the Left Coast, it will be by invitation as “peacekeepers.”

[Red Badger]

The indoctrination of our young people by the communists in the universities is almost complete......................

[RayChuang88]

Wrong, New York Times. The Electoral College was designed specifically to stop demagogue rule, something the Founding Fathers feared.

[wastoute]

I didn’t say I thought it would happen I was just attesting to how my definition of “Patriotism” has changed.

[TADSLOS]

Wow, New Yorkers think that the five biggest states should run the other 45 as colonies. Who’da thunk it?

Yeah, good luck with THAT plan.