mob rule is democracy...
Posted on 05/20/2021 3:46:02 PM PDT by ArizonaStateLine
Ready for Idaho to turn blue? If not, something has to change. Every red county in American will soon have zero say in who is to become president, simply because the urban population is officially overcoming the rural population in every state. Once this happens, it's blue forever.
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This seem a bit alarmist. Sure states like VA, GA, and AZ are trending away from us, but others like MO, IA, and OH are moving our way.
Idaho might go blue in 20 years, but by then Michigan will be solidly red.
You misspelled "were stolen"...
mob rule is democracy...
I disagree. When the Left seizes power, it does not allow mob rule. If it takes a mass slaughter to put it down, then it is a mass slaughter. Look at Stalinist Russia and China — about a hundred million people killed.
Electoral College votes are determined by the number of congressional districts per the constitution.
And congressional districts are allocated based on population.
By design.
The only thing red states can do is appoint their electors in the legislature an forgo an election. But eventually population catches up with that too as the composition of state legislatures changes to reflect the cities.
The end result of any and every democratic republic is ochlocracy.
And it is because anacyclosis is immutable social law.
Anacyclosis says dictatorship/monarchy follows ochlocracy.
Every county should have one electoral vote for state and federal elections. That approach honors the whole point of the creation of the electoral college; to prevent the populous states from over-whelming the smaller states. This would simply apply it to the counties in each state, so the population centers don’t have more say than the down-state folks. If lefties want to live in high-density rat warrens, fine, but they only get one electoral vote for their county. And no county’s boundary would be allowed to significantly change from what it is today. How the demos would scream.
It's already Mob Rule and Kangaroo Courts in America.
It's a Democrat Feature, not a Bug.
Excellently accurate.
Point made.
That’s one kind of packing I’d support, even if the House will have 3,143 members. They can use ZOOM.
The Mob ALWAYS eats it’s own.
“...the urban population is officially overcoming the rural population in every state...”
No I think we will see a reversal in that trend: as a result of Covid, I think there has been a great realization that technology has rendered cities less necessary than ever. I think that when the surveys catch up (as do lease expirations, business office space rentals, etc....), we will see a trend in favor of de-urbanization
Cities have not always been blue. It’s Dem cheating that is so much easier in cites where people don’t know each other. Clean up voting and see how blue they are then. Missouri legislature required cleaning voter rolls after the 2000 debacle. Lo and behold, most of the state and federal offices went red. Exceptions are the districts in St Louis and Kansas City.
Let's both look at it this way. When was the last time an "alarmist" notion turned out to be just alarmist?
This is a leftist takeover, not a country with fair elections and fair vote counting. IMHO
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You’re dreaming. With the continued flow of Middle Eastern refugees into Michigan you’ll have a Muslim Governor there in 2-4 years. One already ran.
“When was the last time an “alarmist” notion turned out to be just alarmist?”
Global warming?
Or institute some type of state level ‘electoral college’ so the blue cities don’t get to run over the rural counties.
“Electoral College votes are determined by the number of congressional districts per the constitution.”
The EC votes that each state has are determined by the number of congressional districts...
PLUS THAT STATE’S TWO SENATORS
...per the Constitution.
This was a part of the Great Compromise (the other being that we have a bicameral legislature, one house having its members based on the population of each state (satisfying the large states of the time), the other base on absolutely equal representation of each state by 2 Senators (satisfying the small states of the time).
What the Dems/Leftists (not much difference these days) want to do is to shred the part of the Great Compromise dealing with the Presidential election by eliminating the Electoral College (either directly or via state-level legislation), having the election turn ONLY on the popular vote, thus largely eliminating the power of the smaller population states to have a voice in the direction of this country.
If anyone wants my opinion, it is that without the Great Compromise, we would have had no Constitution and it is possible that the nation would have fallen apart and been ripe for the piecemeal reincorporation into the British Empire. Thus, to void any aspect of the Great Compromise via subterfuge (i.e. via state law, rather than an amendment ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures) would be to essentially void the Constitution itself. It cuts to the heart of how power is allocated in this country, and thus voids the bargain that we’ve enjoyed for the last 234 years. Similarly, to void any part of the Bill of Rights (specifically the 2nd Amendment, but the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th most certainly are as important) is to void any obligation that the states have to the Union. It is changing the rules after the game has started, which every person understands to be monumentally unfair to the point where it is literally game over when that happens.
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