Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast

glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Our founding fathers did not like democracy and took steps to keep our republic running by implementing the superior electoral college system.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What is superior about it at all? That it gives disproportional voting power to a few states?

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s what keeps the union together. Otherwise we would have split a long time ago.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        …the electoral college keeps the union together…??

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      • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        @wintermute_oregon @glimse
        
        Remember the articles of confederation.
        
        Federalism has always been a tricky balance.
        
        We are the United States, not United Citizens.

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  • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They also thought slaves should count as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes.

    So maybe we shouldn’t hold up their anti-democratic streak as an ideal.

    But reactionaries are gonna reactionary.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You mean so the democrats could own their slaves. Funny how things have not changed

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      • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        We’ve been over this, remember?

        Abraham Lincoln himself said the slavers called themselves Conservatives. You want to pretend like the great realignment didn’t happen, because facts are inconvenient to the narrative you find useful.

        I know reactionaries are anti-intillectuals, but the reading assignment was pretty short.

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      • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I guess if you knew basically nothing about US history that would be a convincing statement.

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      • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        @wintermute_oregon @LookBehindYouNowAndThen
        
        Slavery sucked because it was diversity.
        
        It was also cruel and pointless, since it was low quality labor.
        
        The solution is ending diversity.

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