The Politics Thread

[DarthXedonias]

Catyln Jenner as the Future Presidential elect of USA ... Perhaps, by Popular Vote.... Not by Electoral Vote... Thanks to the Media

The Electoral College is still here after Gore lost (who received even more of the popular vote than Hillary), and rightly so. Without it, the liberals in California and New York would rule every election, and the states with rural populations (such as farmers) would lose their voice.

Only the whiney liberals are bitching about the Electoral College (which includes the media and socialist professors claiming to be "political experts").

Its funny that you mention that because someone pointed out to me (Actually several people though I will have to fact check for myself later) that in the primaries in 2008 Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but Obama won the electoral in the primaries. I didn't see many people complaining about the electoral college way of doing things then but now that their candidate lost they are sprouting this nonsense. Not to mention its not even correct, after final totals came in Trump actually won the popular vote as well from what I'm seeing.

Also correct about why its there. If the electoral college wasn't there politicians would just go to the major cities or states with big population and totally forget about people in the smaller towns and states. A lot of the rust belt states and places like Idaho, Wyoming, etc would be completely ignored and have no political power whatsoever.It doesn't help when "educated" political scientist keep pushing for this crap as well without explaining why its there in the first place. I remember sitting in a political science class which was taught by a person with a PhD sprouting off that the electoral college needs to be done away because it based on elitism. WTF? So small town and states having a say is somehow elitist? Smh. From my understanding a lot of the original law makers studied the Roman empire a saw a this very same flaw in democracy there. I saw the same thing when I read the biography on Julius Caesar. Basically from my readings I found out that if you were outside Rome (where the majority of the population was) or in the outlyer counties then you were basically "FXXXXX". Most politicians didn't bother going outside of Rome most of the time because thats were most of the votes were.

Funny enough Julius Caesar(despite some flaws here and there) was actually one of the first that started to gather support from people in those areas which is why he was so popular (He granted Roman citizenship and benefits to a lot of the people in the outer territories). That why when he was assassinated and the conspirators thought "Well now we can go back to the status quo with us fleecing the people" they had to run for their lives afterwards because the people and even the military turned against them. Thought I would mention that because I'm seeing some Erie similarities right now between what I read and with people calling for Trump's assassination on twitter and that one general who had to remind the troops (before the election) about their oath to protect the US.