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DetlefK

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6. The US electoral system was never meant to be democratic or fair.
Wed Nov 30, 2016, 12:08 PM
Nov 2016

What do you think why safeguards such as the Electoral College or the filibuster exist? Or why political gerrymandering is considered perfectly normal? It's to protect the politicians from what the unwashed masses want.

Your elections have never been "fair" because they aren't supposed to be.

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