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Hey, Democrats, The System Doesn’t Need To Be ’Fixed’ Every Time You Lose An Election
The Federalist ^ | 3 Jul, 2018 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 07/03/2018 2:19:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Maybe it's your agenda that's broken.

If you’re under the impression that the system exists merely to facilitate your partisan agenda, it’s not surprising that you also believe it’s “broken” every time things don’t go your way. This is why so many Democrats argue that we should “fix” the Electoral College when they lose a presidential election and “fix” the filibuster when they run the Senate and now “fix” the Supreme Court when they don’t run the Senate.

During the Obama presidency, liberal pundits groused about the supposed crisis posed by a “dysfunctional” Congress. In political media parlance, “dysfunction” can be roughly translated into “Democrats aren’t able to do as they like.” Congress, as you know, was only “broken” when President Obama wasn’t getting his agenda passed, not when his party was imposing a wholly partisan, unprecedented health-care regime on all Americans.

In any event, the political establishment spent six years wringing its hands about subsequent GOP electoral success, which was an organic political reaction that strengthened separation of powers and reflected the nation’s ideological divisions. Although you’d never know it listening to political coverage, it meant the system was working just fine.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; anthonykennedy; election2018; election2020; electoralcollege; faithlesselectors; nationalpopularvote; npv; obstructionofjustice; scotus; socialists

1 posted on 07/03/2018 2:19:13 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The democrat agenda is incompatible with the Bill of Rights.


2 posted on 07/03/2018 2:20:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of ascenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

bookmark


3 posted on 07/03/2018 2:21:21 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: MtnClimber

Must be a misprint, they mean Rigged


4 posted on 07/03/2018 2:21:31 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

The Democratic Party is about to be taken to the woodshed by the American people. The American people do not want open borders and socialism.


5 posted on 07/03/2018 2:22:32 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: MtnClimber

But we are not allowed to fix ANY fraud, the dead and illegals voting...


6 posted on 07/03/2018 2:25:08 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: allendale

The democRATs fix elections, not systems.


7 posted on 07/03/2018 2:25:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of ascenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

There’s a reason the phrase “the fix is in” has become a political cliché.


8 posted on 07/03/2018 2:27:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: All

Hillary, Billy, Obama......the Democrats are “Me-First.”

Trump is “America First.”

Big difference.


9 posted on 07/03/2018 2:28:19 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: MtnClimber
"There's nothing wrong with me, it's the rest of creation that needs to be fixed."

This is the attitude of a megalomaniac and a malignant narcissist.

10 posted on 07/03/2018 2:28:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: MtnClimber

The dems had the whole of the corrupt state, the fakestream media and 10-15 million illegal and fraudulent votes and they still couldn’t pull it off. Just because they lose, doesn’t mean they will quit trying. The dem party, otherwise known as the anti-American crime syndicate party, needs to be brought to justice if America is to survive.


11 posted on 07/03/2018 2:44:56 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Yep how crazy is this.

Hillary is the smartest woman in the world, we were told. She was the best qualified person ever to run for president, we were told. We were told Trump supporters were deplorable, the implication being that any good decent people would of course prove it by voting for Hillary.

And Hillary had the media entertainment complex behind her.

And we were told Trump was a buffoon. We were told that Democrats wanted Trump to be the GOP nominee because he would he the weakest opponent for Hillary.

Yet in spite of all of that, Trump defeated Hillary.

What does it say about Hillary and Democrat political operatives, that they couldn’t defeat the imbecile Trump with their campaign for the smartest woman in the world????


12 posted on 07/03/2018 2:58:08 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: MtnClimber

Another way to say it, is that socialism is incompatible with the Constitution and the bill of rights.


13 posted on 07/03/2018 3:13:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2banana

Stopping voter fraud is racist.


14 posted on 07/03/2018 3:16:30 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I’m still amazed that a ‘woman’ with a resume of treason, corruption, murders, felonies, pedophilia and satanism could get any votes much less 60 million.

The power of the fakestream media—The enemy of the American people.


15 posted on 07/03/2018 3:19:55 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: MtnClimber

The Congress is dysfunctional regardless of which party is in power.


16 posted on 07/03/2018 3:32:00 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Dilbert San Diego; Liz; 2banana; Electric Graffiti; MtnClimber

17 posted on 07/03/2018 4:26:52 PM PDT by 4Liberty (illegal immigration is a "process" crime too....)
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