Posted on 12/23/2016 4:38:48 AM PST by Kaslin
The New York Times endorsed the election of presidents by popular vote in the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The Times resorts to playing the race card by arguing that the original reason for the Electoral College was to favor the Southern slave states:
The Electoral College, which is written into the Constitution, is more than just a vestige of the founding era; it is a living symbol of America's original sin. When slavery was the law of the land, a direct popular vote would have disadvantaged the Southern states, with their large disenfranchised populations. Counting those men and women as three-fifths of a white person, as the Constitution originally did gave the slave states more electoral votes.
This race argument is based on the essays by attorney Donald Applestein and Yale law professor, Aklhil Amar, who argue that counting each slave as three fifths of a person added to the population of the slave states, thereby giving the slave states more representatives in the House and therefore more electoral votes than it would have if slaves were not counted.
The Times is linking the argument for a popular vote election to labeling the Electoral College as a living symbol of slavery that must be abolished. We fought a civil war to end slavery, but the Times dredges up slavery as reason to endorse the popular vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We need to “scrap” the New Yawk Slimes because of their mental retardation. Just because their b*tch didn’t win, we don’t need to change the Constitution. FUNYT!
Seem like outfits like the NYT, who prove they are nutsoid, are actually hastening the left’s own demise..?
He sure did.
He sure did.
When are these idiots going to understand that the election is over, and they lost!
The New York Times is thisclose to being history.
Because of the electoral college CA and NY will not be the slave masters over the rest of the country.
None of these idiots have any notion that in 1787 most states allowed slavery, the North was neither industrialized or larger in population than the South. More small states empowered by the Electoral College were in the North, Conn, NH, Delaware, RI, and it was the fear of leaders in these states of being overwhelmed by the likes of Va, Pa, NY that led to the electoral college’s adoption. The Left takes the regional situation regarding population and economic base that existed in 1850, after the great immigration wave of the 1840s and the development of Northern industry and claims this was the reality in 1787. They really believe Americans are ignorant thralls.
Can we all line up and grovel at the feet of this hate-rag of lies and distortions?
If Hillary won through the electoral college we would be reading what a great and clever insight our founders had. And by the same authors of Trump haters.
Given the propensity of the old gray whore, madam of the brothel of presstitutes, to produce fake news and otherwise just lie, the remaining floors after the just reduced 8 floors of the building should be cordoned off and no admittance allowed by any one. She has forfeited her right
There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution. So, good luck, Mr. New York Times!
Of the G7, large economically developed countries, exactly 1 (one) directly elects it's Head of State -- France! (So does Mexico.) Let's be more like France and Mexico? Tough sell.
Post of the Election!
I would seriously consider getting rid of the Electoral College only when Voter ID is implemented
Your ID card is the only thing that will register a vote & since the computer knows every registered voter it is tamper proof
The NYT and their DNC minions need to try a different lie.
The rest of the country needs to submit to LA & NYC and become slaves to the elites who know what’s best for us all.
(didn’t read it so I’m just guessing that’s the real end they desire even if not the details of the article)
THIS is what the left has shrunk to since Election Day? THIS is the best they can churn out? As I’ve said before, they don’t know what lie to tell.
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