Here is the column, which is authored by Joshua Holzer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
Here is the column, which is authored by Joshua Holzer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
We’re a Republic, not a democracy.
Waste of my time reading this bullshit. Redpath may be even more of a commie retard than Winger.
A republic is a type of democracy. One with checks and balances which are meant to prevent it from devolving into a tyranny of the majority.
The electoral college in its current form is not ideal, but as long as we have a federal government, it is still better than not having an electoral college at all.
To improve the electoral college, instead of assigning congressmen and electoral votes on the basis of states’ population like we currently do, we should be assigning them on the basis of something more meritocratic: e.g. states’ arable land area, agricultural fraction of the economy, annual exports minus imports, gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity, or something like that.
CURRENT USA —
TYRANNY OF THE MINORITY — VIA ALL THE RIGGED MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER SYSTEMS
1/2 X 1/2 = 1/4
SUPER-WORSE PRIMARY MATH
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TOTSOP
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/15/2024-election-overturned-possibility/75354573007/
Congress made overturning elections harder, but there are still loopholes in the law
Aysha Bagchi
USA TODAY
When Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s post-2020 election effort to reverse his loss, leaders in both parties said it would help safeguard future elections.
There are still holes that could be exploited, however, especially at the local level. Some of those holes are already being tested by local officials, such as refusing to certify elections at the county level, according to Matthew Seligman, a fellow at Stanford’s Constitutional Law Center and co-author of the 2024 book “How to Steal a Presidential Election.”
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TOO MANY ***HOLES*** TO COUNT ???
HOW MANY 2022 LAW CASES GOING TO SCOTUS – 5 NOV 2024-20 JAN 2025 ???
ALL MORE REASONS TO ABOLISH THE MINORITY RULE EC
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That’s not what historically the founders or American civics taught about democracy until the 20th century. It was always believed and taught that it was nothing but mob rule and lynch law and completely unAmerican.
“The United States is the only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose the election. Thanks to the Electoral College, that has happened five times in the country’s history.”
In every single one of those cases, with one sole exception, no candidate for President had 50% of the popular vote. So, the electoral college has essentially served as a run off.
The sole exception was Tilden in 1876. And, even in his case, he actually had both a majority of popular votes, AND electoral votes on election night, but had electoral votes taken away from him by selective disqualification.
Any proposal to get rid of the electoral college must deal with this essential question: what happens if NO ONE has a majority of the popular vote? (Which could very well happen in this election, BTW). The National Popular Vote proposal essentially gives the election to anyone who has at least 40% of the popular vote – a solution that doesn’t solve the problem – and could result in a unpopular election – like Allende in Chile.
A better solution is to have states authorize run=offs or alternative voting to resolve the case of a Presidential candidate winning that state with less than 50%. These solutions don’t require any constitutional amendment or interstate “compact”.
Maybe just dissolve the union before it leads to another bloody war?
Devolution is always a welcome start.
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HOW MANY HACKS IN THE GERRYMANDER CONGRESS AND ALL 50 STATE LEGISLATURES GET ELECTED WITH UNDER 50 PCT OF GERRYMANDER AREA VOTES ???
SAME FOR STATE/LOCAL EXECS/JUDICS ???
https://www.foxnews.com/elections
PREZ MAP – DOWN PAGE ABOUT 10-20 PCT
COMMIE STATES SHOULD BE BLOOD R-E-D
FASCIST STATES SHOULD BE DEAD B-L-U-E
CIVIL WAR II STARTS WHERE ???
ON 5 NOV 2024 ???
The map in the article is interesting and informative.
Commie fascist D states should be red-brown
We should make this website all about John Taylor Bowles.
Did Richard Winger die?
Not only am I a Nazi piece of shit, but now I’m impersonating other people here.
I’m obsessed with myself.
“HOW MANY HACKS IN THE GERRYMANDER CONGRESS AND ALL 50 STATE LEGISLATURES GET ELECTED WITH UNDER 50 PCT OF GERRYMANDER AREA VOTES ???”
Actually, very FEW of them. Most districts are gerrymandered to give one party or other a distinct advantage. Quite a few only have one major party candidate now.
Let’s hope Mr. Winger is alive and well.
In the long run, tho, the big problem with the Constitution is that the President has been allowed to become MUCH too powerful. That’s why more and more, Presidential elections are becoming pitched battles; neither party can tolerate not holding it.
As I have said before, we might be better off replacing the President with an Executive Council, like Switzerland. And, frankly, i think the Electoral College might be the best way to choose its members. The goal in choosing them should be to prevent any party or region from dominating the executive branch, and encourage power sharing and national cooperation.
Legislators should choose the electoral college. White male married land and gun owning churchgoing heads of households with children age 40-75 should choose the legislators. To be voters they should also pay a poll tax, pass a civics test, be veterans, and have a grandfather’s grandfather who voted in the same county.
My name is paranoid retard and I’m obsessed with John Taylor Bowles on this website instead of ballot access issues. I will keep posting on here like the crazy stuff AZ does (whom I admire) and Stock (I love too). I will even post stuff under John Taylor Bowles name because I love stalking him and the Martians told me to do it.
The impersonator post at 11:54 is by mentally ill attention seeking Nazi John Taylor Bowles.
Yeah, let’s fix the system:
– Replace the representative republic with a direct republic – at least, until anarchy can be attained.
– Codify that no taxes are ever justifiable, but that poll tax is particularly illegal, unethical and immoral.
– And recognize that by now most US veterans still alive today have demonstrated such a lack of moral integrity and such an extensive inability to think critically for themselves, that they should be the very last people who should be allowed to vote …Well no, they are still ahead of current US military, and of former and current cops, but that’s an incredibly low bar…
Fix the system makes good suggestions.