Re: The Joy Of Democracy

On 2024-10-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-21 9:21 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:59:58 -0400, Joel wrote:
 

I would almost believe this if Trump were going to win, but he isn't.
Kamala will make him defeated again ...

 
Harris seems guaranteed to win the popular vote over Trump. In a
democracy, that would be enough. In the US, it isn’t.

>
Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the
presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country simply
because the agricultural sectors feeding the parasites of those areas
are sparsely populated. The Electoral College ensures that people doing
the real work get to have a say, not just the welfare recipients living
in slums having twenty children despite not being able to feed any of them.
>
Without such a system, there would be no reason for agricultural states
not to decide to secede, especially since the politics of the masses are
wholly incompatible with every one of their values.

Yep. That's why the U.S. has an electoral college, so that a few cities
can't run the whole country.

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