I'm only surprised he didn't compare the Electoral College to Hitler's Nazi Germany.
“All laws are racist, the law of gravity is racist” Some liberal politician.
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The Democrat Party is rooted in slavery.
Levin played the audio of this guy on yesterday’s show. Sounded like Conyers was under the influence or just showing his age. He has no business being in the Congress.
In related news, Conyers claimed that God has discriminated against reptiles because there are now less flying reptiles than birds. And it’s Trump’s fault.
Just another stupid and ignorant Democrat.
Whoa! The anti-Electoral College crowd is getting desperate now!
As the truism goes; “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” If these proponents are literate, I commend them to read “The Federalist Papers” and in particular #68 (attributed to Alexander Hamilton) as well as the “Big State/Small State” discussions from the ratification process.
In this case, for Rep. Conyer’s edification, Virginia was one of the Big States (population), along with Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. So of the slave-holding states, only 1 of 4 was in that camp and then 5 (GA, SC, NC, MD and DE) in the Small State class. (Delaware was not locked in with the slave agriculture but it was still permitted and had a definite population of slaves.)
These communists are actually advocating the ignoring of democracy and we are just ruled by the whim of 525 electors. Why have the damned election? Just pay the most money to the elector and get their vote!!
Everything is ‘rooted in slavery’ with this bunch: Air, water and Dirt.................
Yes yes... And vagina is the new black because voting against Hillary was racist.
He’s thinking of the 3/5 rule, which is no longer in effect. Fail!
I think maybe John Conyers brain is rooted in his butt.... Perhaps he should remove his head from his anus.....
He’s full of baloney. The electoral college was so that small states like Connecticut and Rhode Island wouldn’t get swamped by the larger southern states. I.e. free states wanted to be able to prevent slave states from dominating. Hence the “Connecticut Compromise of counting slaves as 3/5ths of a person for census purposes, so the south wouldn’t get apportioned a large number of congressmen based on slaves who have no rights, but would ensure that the south could protect slavery forever by dominating the congress.
I haven't read the details of the article (it takes so long), but I'm suspecting Conyers is right.
Surely he is talking about the owner-slave arrangement between the Dem Party and the black folks of this country. The Electoral College System is perfectly suited for ending that relationship since it allows people like Donald Trump to be elected rather than some Plantation Owner Wannabe like Hillary.
I'll read the article later just to see if I was right. But I'm sure he meant to say "The End of Slavery" not just "Slavery".
These people are a cross between a clown and a cockroach.
In his feeble brain, the fact that they tried to prevent states from benefiting politically from slavery means the safety measures put in place were “rooted in slavery”.
Well it’s supposed to be since the White House was built partly by slaves you have to be rooted in slavery to get there. /sarc