Posted on 08/22/2019 4:27:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
In an Instagram post on Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said the Electoral College needs to be abolished. One of her main gripes with the system was its so-called "racism."
"The Electoral College has a racial injustice breakdown," AOC explained. "Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the electoral college effectively weights white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a 'one person, one vote' system where all are counted equally."
She addressed the biggest concern behind abolishing the Electoral College: with populous blue states making the decisions for the country as a whole.
"You may have heard this Electoral College argument the most: that families in suburbs, cities must have their vote suppressed in order to give rural votes a 'fair shake,'" Ocasio-Cortez said. "Could you imagine if we had this kind of democracy-altering 'fairness' provision for literally any other group? If we weighted, for example, Black, Indigenous voters more because of fairness?"
According to Fox News host and former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, the Electoral College is anything but racist. And the best part of her rebuttal: she reminds Ocasio-Cortez that President Barack Obama won the Electoral College...twice.
"Is the Electoral College is racist?" Tucker Carlson asked Perino.
"It's such a disservice to the institution, to the framers of our Constitution, and, for one, it's bad for civics education," Perino said, referencing AOC's comments about the Electoral College being racist.
"And, because she drives through a rural area of the United States, riving through flyover country, then she thinks it's okay to say that these people don't matter, that the people who live here don't matter," Perino explained. "We know there are rural parts of the country. There are micro centers. There are urban areas. There's all of these things. The Electoral College, no, it's not racist. Nobody said it was racist until recently. They didn't say it when Barack Obama won the Electoral College twice."
Dana Perino Defends Electoral College After Ocasio-Cortez Criticism
The ELECTORAL COLLEGE was created to protect America from legislators like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In talking about the EC, people always seem to disregard that our country was originally formed by the union of a bunch of sovereign states, so, in in a national election, we vote BY STATE.
The EC just adjusts this state-by-state vote for population.
It is entirely logical.
This child isn’t even bright enough to be a graduate of the electoral college.
Precisely. Plenty of black people living in rural areas in the South.
That's a big ask. She doesn't think. She reacts, in accordance with her bigotry, ignorance, and ideology.
Personally, I’m sick of this election insanity.
Thursday after the 2020 election .... Trump-led military counter coup. Massive arrests of thousands of leftists, ranging from Dem leadership to simple Antifa goons.
No trials, summary detention in Greenland. There, about 20,000 leftist agitators are given land and tools to create the socialist Utopia of their dreams.
Within two years, a pitiful remnant of about 2,000 survivors begs for rescue. The other 18,000 have died of disease, starvation, or, most commonly, internecine violence.
What prophecy???
here was a prophecy a few months back, that the next POTUS in succession after DJT, Sr. serves his two terms, will also have the surname of Trump. That can only mean Don Junior or Eric.....or Baron, but he’s too young.
good idea...
I think the states can do that now.
AOC and the Squad are the Face of the DemocRAT Party more and more. It’s Hillary squared. Will voters AWAKE and give them and the Dems the BOOT?
The Left’s racial engineering/white-genocide program is the racism in question. Luckily the EC is structured to make that kind of abominable, warmaking tactic non-feasible.
I feared something like this when “American Idol” became a hit. I’ve often refered to Obama as President Sanjaya.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Colorado’s presidential electors may choose whichever candidate they want when casting their electoral college ballots, no matter who Colorado voters chose.
Stop right there....................
Now that her brain has left for Silicon valley, she can’t function properly.
Expect to see her less and less on TV. The shiny new toy has gotten dull...................
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In my opinion, AOC does not think or understand anything she says when she opines on our Constitutional system of governance. Clearly, she does not understand the bargaining at the Constitutional Convention between the big and little States to ensure all would have an equal say in electing a President. Without realizing it, AOC, in her fly-over video, makes the point for the Electoral College. If those in rural areas had no voice, then they would be nothing more than hardworking contributors to a system which ignores them. Uninformed people like AOC don’t understand the balance that was struck in Philadelphia and its importance today. All they see is an impediment to left wing blue state rule.
She doesn’t want to understand and neither do her handlers. Our problem is not the Dems. Our problem is encapsulated in my tagline...and it is a big one.
AOC has no real hope of being re-elected to Congress. She has given so much ammunition to her adversaries both within the Dem party and the Republican party, that she is going to soon be a mere primal scream leftist echo within the halls of Congress.
When that happens?
“Good riddance ,” I say, “ Good riddance to the
real racist in our midst.” ( Cue sound of toilet flushing.)
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