Posted on 12/23/2016 5:00:15 PM PST by malvor
Which why they are comvinced that the Right, cheats
Should unicorns be allowed to frolic on the moon. It’s a useless debate because none of the red states would stand for it.
Psychological projection. One of the 3 rules of SJWism.
It is also why destructionists claim Trump is going to destroy ‘democracy’ and impose a police state.
By those complaints they project their own plans to do just those things.
Is this what passes for intelligent thought these days? He cannot articulate a complete sentence. He sounds like a drunken Joe Biden.
Those idiots don’t realize that if we had a pure democracy there would be no civil rights, gay marriage and possibly women voting. They are so fricking stupid.
If not for knowing what the Left is about, I would dismiss that but we do know better.
I think they do realize that and that’s why they want to bypass the people and the congress by getting their way through the courts. It has worked for them quite a few times now so they feel empowered by that method.
What they are missing is if our elections for President went by the popular vote the candidates would campaign accordingly and a lot more people in blue states who vote red would have voted thus winning anyway.
Our system is awkward but fair for the people AND the states. A straight up popular vote could disenfranchise the states and the people in the smaller less populated states.
California and New York should both be split into at least two states with CA likely needing to break into 3. NorCal, SoCal, and MidCal, all becoming states.
The Electoral College is the best guard against voter fraud and corruption. One corrupt State could tip the scale in favor of one candidate. For example California votes were being counted two weeks after the election.
That’s probably what a lot of folks were saying about the 16th, 17th and 18th amendments...
Putting aside the intention behind the electoral college to keep a major population center from deciding the election: What would happen if there were a truly close total vote? Then, every voting machine in every precinct in every county in every state would have to be recounted. It would not matter if one candidate won the state 85-15. If it were 84.7 - 15.3 it could make all the difference. You could not limit recounts to states where the vote was close. A year would probably be insufficient to resolve every recount and every lawsuit that would be filed.
Jost wrongly claimed, several times, that the it was the Supreme Court’s role to “make law”. Carlson should have simply advised Jost that, No, the legislature makes law and the executive enforces the law, while the courts simply compare the provisions of the law to that legal template/framework aka The Constitution to determine the law’s suitability for governance.
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