Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:43:15 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 21:37:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the
presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country ...

 
I’ve heard that nonsense from countless supporters of the Dumbfuckistani
voting system, and I still don’t understand it.
 
Don’t you take it as “self-evident” that all your people are created
equal? If so, why shouldn’t their votes count equally too?

Never forget that even when that document was written so pigs were a lot
more equal than others. 3/5 in fact.

Without quibbling over constitutional republic and so forth the Electoral
College is a bandaid on the problems of democracy. Don't forget the first
paragraph of the document you alluded to.

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When
in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and
to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the separation."

Most of the rest of the document is a list of grievances against the king
of Great Britain.

The fascist Lincoln negated the concept of peacefully dissolving political
bands and imposed his will with the force of arms. Were the red states to
submit a similar list to a government that considers them a basket of
deplorables, how would that play out?

I will make no predictions but I will say if the Democrats lose they
brought it on themselves, putting the junior varsity in the game so late.
After he won they should have said "Joe, you've fulfilled your career
ambition and you'll have your 4 years. Now let's build the next
president." Had they done that I truly doubt Harris would have been the
anointed.