Posted on 11/03/2016 5:44:16 AM PDT by Two-Shoes
If you live in the type of deeply red state where conservatives have dominated state and local politics for fifty years, you may not understand why Donald Trump has an appeal to so many voters. You may think, “I live in Texas or Arizona or Utah, I am fine, I can sit this one out. Gary Johnson is more my type of candidate anyway.”
On behalf of those of us trapped in states where conservatives struggle to get 40 or 45% of the vote: please don’t.
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Vote Trump. The stakes are just too high.
We moved from the very blue SoCal to the blessedly red E Tennessee in 2015—best thing we ever did.
We’re all in for Trump. He’ll take Tennessee easily and early.
If you live in the type of deeply red state where conservatives have dominated state and local politics for fifty years, you might actually have a job. Because the wagon pullers vastly outnumber the wagon riders.
So where I could be disgusted with the antics of both candidates, I know what has to be done. (And if the third party candidates weren't such freakin' horrid choices, this decision might've been a little difficult.)
Glad to have you here.
Vote Trump! Yes ! However in South Carolina 25 years of GOP dominance has given us crap like Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley. Sometimes the GOP gene pool needs cleansed.
If we could repeal the 17th amendment and ratify Article the First, we’d go a LONG way toward making America closer to the image our Founders envisioned.
We also need to repeal the Apportionment Act of 1911! It’s the only reason we’ve been arbitrarily stuck at 435 representatives. The House used to grow every 10 years after the census, as was intended. They just decided, “Oh, this is fine. We’ll keep this number static from now on.”
Sorry, my point in the previous screed is that the electoral college is assigned by representative electors for the population of a state. We could change the landscape of the electoral college by making politics more local, as was intended.
I live in Virginia. (And no, I didn't write this piece. I don't know who the author "Annonymous in Virginia" is.) Our Governor, the Clinton-crony and the ever-dependable Democrat-Party hack Terry McAuliffe, has done his utmost to turn Virginia blue. McAuliffe's cart-blanche restoration of voting rights to felons alone has effectively disenfranchised thousands of law-abiding Virginians. And, there's been all manner of malfeasance going on in the Old Dominion with dead people registering to vote. Voter fraud is alive and well here in Virginia; the number of dead registered proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. (And I just know that our Democrat Attorney-General Mark R. Herring will get right on it. Get right on the task of ferreting out the as-yet-undiscovered fraud. Eventually. By 2024. Or there abouts. Maybe.)
Bottom line, Trump supporters in Virginia face a YUGE uphill battle merely to combat the fraud and cronyism that shoves the race hard-Left in Hillary's favor. Plus, "Northern Virginia" is essentially DC-South. If Trump prevails here in the Old Dominion, if Virginia manages to emerge as a Red State next week, it will be an amazingly pleasant surprise.
Five Thousand congressmen, each with two pockets to fill. Where oh where would they find the money for that?
Sanitized, even. A mere surface wipe-down really just won't cut it. We need a deep, powerful clean. One that's citrusy fresh. Orange-fresh, even. ;-)
I know it's not fun being a Republican in NY or Cali, but consider this...in the 2012 election, Dems won 3 of the 27 House races in NY by 5% or less. They also won 5 of the 53 seats in Cali by the same margin.
Even though I don't know whether you reside in one of these congressional districts, I'd say your vote still matters, if for no other reason than to register your frustration.
Keep on FReepin' on...
That is ABSOLUTELY the point! There are dozens of essays written about how that work, and not a single one of them sounds bad compared to how it is now. It would require decentralization of the government which would be a boon for the rest of the country.
My favorite plan called for the establishment of federal congressional districts in 5 separate regions of the US: Northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest, and midwest. Probable locations would be NYC, Atlanta, Seattle/Tacoma, Phoenix, and St. Louis. The representatives from their respective regions would meet in those districts for all matters related to the federal government, and all regions would be interconnected with redundant high-speed Internet connections with full audio, video, and telephony capabilities. Voting would be done by balloting as per usual convention with those ballots entered into a computer system for final tallying. If there's any question as to the veracity of a vote, or a vote is tallied with <5% separation, paper ballots would be counted by hand.
It would reinvigorate dozens of sectors of our economy including, most notably, IT and construction, and representatives would not longer have to fly around the country to meet constituents.
Article the First is on the books and just needs an up-or-down vote for ratification since amendments proposed never expire from the registry. If they were able to ratify the 27th Amendment after 200+ years, they can review and approve the very first amendment ever proposed for our Constitution!
If such a scheme were implemented, the location shouldn't be static, and it also shouldn't be allowed in any city with more than 100k people. The large metropoli have enough influence already.
As an IT architect, the thought of configuring and securing a non-static environment like you’re proposing gives me agita. I get what you’re proposing, but making it dynamic is nearly impossible. Make it a small town, sure, but moving it every few years would be onerous unless you went about configuring a handful of remote sites for each region in advance.
I lived for nearly 40 years in the Peoples Republik of Neu Joisey, then was able to escape over the wire to Texas, F.A. (Free America, from “Red Dawn”). I don’t take the freedom and liberties that we enjoy here for granted...but I absolutely DO enjoy them. Oh, and I vote - and urge EVERYONE to at least vote against Hillary Clinton, the corrupt, traitorous Witch of Chappaqua. Her in the Oval Office would be the end of our liberties, the end of our country.
Come ON, you Never Trumpers out there, vote for your country, your kids and grandkids, vote AGAINST HILLARY. Trump will pass, but the damage that Hillary will do (on top of what Obama has already done) will be irreparable.
As for secure comms and such, there are cryptographic protocols to handle everything from video to email (PGP anyone?). Further, requiring them to actually work electronically will make it that much easier to keep the public informed, as it would make everything easier to publish on the net. No more would we have bills that are hidden until minutes before the vote. We'd have records of who added what, and when. One might also hope that it would make the legislooters more familiar with tech that many of us use daily, and the issues that surround it.
I disagree with you that it would be a nightmare from an architectural standpoint. It would be a challenge to segregate out the various vlans and secure them appropriately, but we do have folk out there who do that kind of thing. There are convention centers all over the place, and many of them are designed to handle large networks. Remember, you're talking about regional meetings here. You're not going to have tens of thousands of them at any particular location. Any dramatic change of this nature is going to require major changes to how the legislooters work. For instance, is it really necessary for congress to be in session year round? I think not. They could do a heck of a lot less damage to the nation if they were actually in session for a more limited time.
I’m in Alabama. This is the #1 state for Trump, hands down.
Even 538.com gives Trump 99.9% of the vote, and Hillary is at.01%.
Also, Alabama has been deep red for many decades. Even when the democrats ruled it, they were the most conservative of democrats, which is an extinct species nowadays.
I don’t know of ANYONE saying they won’t vote for Trump.
Everyone wants him to win! In a way it’s too bad, because Trump hasn’t had a rally here since he first started way before the primaries, when even Jeff Sessions was wearing a MAGA hat.
“”We moved from the very blue SoCal to the blessedly red E Tennessee in 2015—best thing we ever did.””
AND we moved from conservative OC, CA to conservative GA 10 years ago and now wonder if they’ll hold onto the RED!!!!
Oh, I’m still planning on voting House and Senate, I don’t necessarily vote straight line ticket. Eg, a judge has Liberal Democrat & Republican lines. I’ll likely vote Conservative. (Somehow they’re getting all 4 lines now, and that ticks me off with a capital P.)
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