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ICYMI: Stacey Abrams Calls Electoral College a 'Classist, Racist System'
Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2020 | Bronson Stoccking

Posted on 02/19/2020 2:56:07 PM PST by Kaslin

Failed politician Stacey Abrams wants to do away with the electoral college. Her reasoning? The electoral college is a "classist, racist system whose time has passed and we need to get rid of it," so it's the same argument the left makes to get rid of everything they don't like. Naturally, Abrams attacked the centuries old constitutional system with the cast of ABC's "The View" on Monday morning.  

Abrams claims the founding founders created the electoral system as a racist system designed somehow to prevent blacks from voting. To make her point, Abrams repeated the historically illiterate lie about the three-fifths compromise being the iniquitous idea of racist Southerners. Of course, it was Southerners who wanted slaves to be fully counted for purposes of representation in Congress and Northerners who opposed it. But such facts only get in the way of leftwing demagogues like Stacey Abrams. 

Abrams then claimed the electoral college was simultaneously designed to prevent poor white men from voting in the North. 

"The classist part was that in the North, too many immigrants from parts of Europe that people weren't excited about, too many poor people, too many poor white men were trying to vote," Abrams alleged, "and so the Northerners said, 'well, we don't want people who aren't equipped to make this decision to be selecting the executive of our nation,' so the electoral college said, 'yes you can speak up, but we'll decide if you're right.' It's a classist racist system whose time has passed and we need to get rid of it."

In Abrams' mind, the electoral college is a racist system somehow capable of being racist towards both blacks and whites. In reality, the founders created a constitutional republic designed to safeguard against a radical democracy of any kind. Radical democracies are known to trample upon the rights of minorities and can fall prey to mob-like tactics currently in vogue on the radical left, which is why leftists want to get rid of it. 

Abrams says she supports the National Popular Vote because, as Abrams puts it, it would "basically jerry rig the system and go around the Constitution." And while Abrams claims she would prefer to "fix it at the source" with a constitutional amendment, Abrams said simply "I don't have that kind of time."

Americans find progressive ideas to be repugnant, so leftists like Abrams need to rework our constitutional republic in order to force their will on the American people. Abrams recently announced that she plans on running for president in the future, so she's going to need the vote of every felon, illegal immigrant, child and dead person to count if she's ever going to have a shot at winning the White House. 

Stacey Abrams explains why she says the electoral college is a "classist racist system whose time has passed and we need to get rid of it." https://t.co/PTs7YvvxOU pic.twitter.com/AzF7F0H6Qr— The View (@TheView) February 18, 2020



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: demoncracy; election; electoralcollege; electoralintegrity; icymi; illegalimmigration; leftiststrategies; radical; stacyabrams; voterfraud
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1 posted on 02/19/2020 2:56:07 PM PST by Kaslin
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Somewhere a village is missing its idiot...


2 posted on 02/19/2020 2:57:08 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Kaslin

I guess I’m confused. Wasn’t the Electoral College formed while Blacks were slaves and couldn’t vote?


3 posted on 02/19/2020 2:59:13 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Kaslin

It is still a mystery to me how this nutcase almost won Georgia.


4 posted on 02/19/2020 2:59:48 PM PST by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Kaslin

She forgot hetersexist, speciesist, ableist, cisgenderist, the EC is that,too /s


5 posted on 02/19/2020 3:00:02 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Kaslin

The Ghettopotamus is staring down the Constitution.


6 posted on 02/19/2020 3:01:00 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: MplsSteve
[Somewhere a village is missing its idiot...]

Somewhere a buffet is missing its best (or worst) customer (hey, if she's gonna play the worn-out race card)


7 posted on 02/19/2020 3:01:06 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t even know who this Stacey Abrams is.....


8 posted on 02/19/2020 3:01:30 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: elcid1970

Oh my, LOL


9 posted on 02/19/2020 3:01:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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She’s got three things well—losing, calling everything racist, and eating....


10 posted on 02/19/2020 3:01:54 PM PST by Fungi
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The classic way Democrats deal with losing a contest — change the rule book to make them win.


11 posted on 02/19/2020 3:02:34 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Kaslin

Why is this moron getting press space?


12 posted on 02/19/2020 3:03:11 PM PST by Bayan
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To: MplsSteve

Well, move to a country that doesn’t have this. Kenya is nice right now—if you like eating locusts.


13 posted on 02/19/2020 3:05:45 PM PST by jimbug
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simple minds . say simple things

It was to give small states a voice.

This is another Leftist who thinks California and New York are the
only two state who need a voice.

I have no idea how the Electoral College could be used to accomplish
a racist goal.

14 posted on 02/19/2020 3:06:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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To: MplsSteve

A stupid, fat, affirmative action idiot


15 posted on 02/19/2020 3:06:16 PM PST by Okeydoker
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That she came within 50k or so votes of being governor of GA is scary as could be. Unline Obama, she actually has executive experience - and it’s bad.


16 posted on 02/19/2020 3:06:28 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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No, it’s not a failed system. It’s a system that requires an IQ of at least 90 to understand.


17 posted on 02/19/2020 3:08:42 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Kaslin
Abrams said simply "I don't have that kind of time."

This was Obastard's argument all the time, too. The tyrants never have "enough time" to follow the rules and laws; they have to jam things through extra-constitutionally. "If Congress won't act, I'll just sign an Executive Order."

The latest "not enough time" argument from the Democrat despots was about Trump. They argued it was a national emergency and he must be removed from office before the next election because, Heaven forbid!, the idiot voters might re-elect him.

This woman is an illiterate loon completely ignorant of history (and so much more). The ignorance and stupidity of these people is just breathtaking.

18 posted on 02/19/2020 3:08:50 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: yarddog

It’s called universal suffrage.


19 posted on 02/19/2020 3:10:07 PM PST by bkopto
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To: SaveFerris

She’s so fat if she wore high heels she’d strike oil! So fat when it rains in metro Atlanta she uses I 285 as a slip n slide!


20 posted on 02/19/2020 3:10:22 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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