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2016 Postmortem

DanTex

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7. It's not "whining". The EC is dumb and undemocratic.

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 11:02 PM

Dec 2016

Pointing this out isn't whining.

Is it going to change? Not any time soon. That would require a constitutional amendment, and the GOP, which benefits, would never go for that. So we're stuck with it, and we need to work with what we have.

But there are a lot of other things we're stuck with that aren't good. For example, racism. For the foreseeable future, we're stuck with that too.

Pointing out the bad things we are stuck with isn't whining, it's a good thing to do.

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Seriously folks, [View all] sarisataka Dec 2016 OP

K and r. nt cwydro Dec 2016 #1

A little research confirmed my memory... sarisataka Dec 2016 #2

People forget how much power the States had early on. Called the "United States" for a reason. jmg257 Dec 2016 #3

It is forgotten that in addition to one person, one vote sarisataka Dec 2016 #4

I believe it was even more restrictive than white males BigBadDem Dec 2016 #6

Isn't this what is mostly going on? NCTraveler Dec 2016 #5

No, what is going on is sarisataka Dec 2016 #8

I haven't seen an argument against this being made. NCTraveler Dec 2016 #11

It's not "whining". The EC is dumb and undemocratic. DanTex Dec 2016 #7

Why didn't we start an Amendment sarisataka Dec 2016 #9

Probably because it would have gone nowhere, and Obama wanted to get ACA passed. DanTex Dec 2016 #10