still has zero to do with the EC. let me know when you're ready to accept factsI don't understand how you can think that when it is literally written into the Constitution that slaves don't count as whole people, but 35 of a person to be factored into an allotment of representatives that are voted for by only white, landowning men.
but you think it means that the majority gets power over the minority? you really don't understand a republic at all, do you?Do you know that that means, though? It doesn't mean "give the minority power at the expense of the majority because the minority can't win elections anymore."
never exaggerated my military service. i think you're just angry about being a selfish coward who was too scared to serve....or too lazyI don't give a shit what someone who exaggerates their military service for effect on an anonymous message board thinks what our Republic is "supposed to be".
LMAO!
A "big population center" was 50,000 people in 1776.
And NO, they didn't have huge farmlands...unless they were slaveowners.
More people live in Atlanta today than lived in the whole US in 1776.
About twice as many people live in Los Angeles County ALONE than lived in the entire country in 1776.
Yes, it has everything to do with how those offices were filled because only a select handful of people actually got to vote for them.
Yeesh.
dumbass low information prole..............if you can't understand the wrongness of our taxation system
and you can thank the senior members of BOTH parties for thatWhat's wrong with our taxation system is that the wealthy don't pay their fair share.
because I can, that's whyYour idea of wrongness is rooted in the belief that you can spend that money better and more efficiently than the government.
see my first answer........then my second to see you are wrong.And I'm here to tell you, that just ain't fucking true, as 40 years of tax cuts have shown.
let me know when you take off the blue colored blinders, you partisan twit.And this isn't a "both sides" thing. This is a one side thing that does not respect and is openly contemptuous of government as an institution. Again, rooted in the belief that you know what's best, and that you know how to responsibly spend revenues...a fantasy, in other words.
still has zero to do with the EC. let me know when you're ready to accept facts
but you think it means that the majority gets power over the minority? you really don't understand a republic at all, do you?
never exaggerated my military service. i think you're just angry about being a selfish coward who was too scared to serve....or too lazy
Of course the system gives one party an advantage...the party that finds itself consistently losing elections, then blaming the elections instead of their own shitty, failed policies, candidates, and ideas. Without the Electoral College and if there was fair representation in the Senate and House, the GOP would have no control. None. And rightly so because they didn't earn it.
You seem to think they earn it by virtue of simple existing. That's entitlement. If states couldn't draw their own federal districts, the GOP's deficit in the House would be much greater. Partisan gerrymandering is the only reason the GOP remains relevant because they have no policies, no record of success to celebrate.
No they don't. Georgia is a perfect example of how Republicans are not benefitting from people moving to red states.
if you're advocating reducing the US population back to what it was during the 1800s, lets do it.
so you're not interested in learning why we are a republic, you just want to continue your idiot leftist ideology that's wrong. all you had to say
and you can thank the senior members of BOTH parties for that
you're looking more and more the idiot. I never said such a thing and you're still missing the idea of a republic. you've confused it with something your handlers have spoon fed you to believe. you seem to have no clue about the intent of the USA at the time of the ratification. why is that?FACEPALM.
Yes, majority rules. That's why the Senate is 50 +1 votes. That's why the House passes legislation along majority lines. The issue is the representation, and there's no definition of a Republic where the minority rules despite not getting a majority of the vote.
You seem to think a Republic is synonymous with a Dictatorship.
Sure you did. You said you were a Marine. But what you didn't say -that I had to drag out of you- was that as a Marine, you didn't serve in combat, you were never in a foxhole, and you sat in an air-conditioned room on your ass, staring at a screen all day, doing a job that 30,000 people do every day in the US for no accolades or special accommodation.
So let's be real when talking about your military service. Because you aren't being real about it.
I never served because I didn't need to. I got into college. I developed skills in college that landed me in grad school, and I used those skills I learned in grad school to make myself employable once I finished. I bet I worked harder than you did. I certainly put in way more hours in front of a screen than you ever did. Ever had to defend a Master's Thesis? No? Then shut the fuck up about directing traffic.
because I can, that's why .
Wow...way to stretch there.
What I'm saying is that the founding fathers never contemplated a 21st-century America that stretches from coast-to-cost, where you can hop on a plane in NY and end up in LA 4 hours later. They never envisioned a world where there was no slavery. They never envisioned a world where women were allowed to vote and run for office. They never envisioned a world connected by the Internet.
So applying an 18th-century mindset to 21st-century problems is probably not a smart thing to do. Do you use leeches for your health care? Do you drive around in a horse and buggy? Do you send messages by carrier pigeon? Do you shit in a hole in the ground you dug? Of course not. So why do you selectively apply 18th-century solutions to 21st-century governance?
that's why we have representative government. To solve the problems the individual cannot solve on their own.
see my first answer........then my second to see you are wrong.\
No, the EC was created to give slaveowners more say in the government, that's all.
Democracy is majority rules.
If you couldn't win a majority of votes, why should you get to control government?
So then tell me...how would you, personally, build a highway without the government?
How would you, personally, maintain that highway so that it doesn't crumble?
How would you, personally, design and build a bridge the highway needs to cross over a river?
How would you, personally, do all of that since your experience is in air traffic control?
let me know when you take off the blue colored blinders, you partisan twit.
You have so much self-confidence it borders on narcissism.
They don't earn it by simply existing but by winning the most votes.