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...The electoral college is there to protect the vast majority of America from Progressive Communism.
Maybe. Or, maybe it's there to protect slaveholding rural states who didn't have the (white, male) population to counter the voting power of more populous free states, ever since 1789. You know, back before "communism" was even a thing.
Maybe. Or, maybe it's there to protect slaveholding rural states who didn't have the (white, male) population to counter the voting power of more populous free states, ever since 1789. You know, back before "communism" was even a thing.
the electoral college that gives rural areas more power than they should have is the threat to our democracy.
Religion that heavily dominates in these rural areas because frankly they have nothing else to do, is the threat to our democracy.
Education remains on the back burner even in urban cities (granted more intellects flock to cities for jobs). But if education was made priority in this country, free college. We wouldn't have rural America, wishing for the good ole days and wanting to bring everyone down with them.
Wow. So because you don't approve of the way rural folks live their lives you think they shouldn't have as much "power" as those you align yourself with ? With statements like this, I am so glad we have a system like the electoral college.
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Ever see a small town with a gang problem? Homeless, graffiti? No? Me neither.
Here in AZ, the small towns all have massive poverty and drug use issues, with the exceptions of Flagstaff and Sedona, and those are thanks to California retirees. Phoenix has a much more healthy economy than the rest of the state, despite a higher COL
The electoral college is actually close to being rendered moot. 10 states and DC have already agreed to implement the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that will be triggered when enough states have agreed to participate to guarantee that the winner of the popular vote will always become President. As of now, the participating states control 165 electoral votes. Once they have control of 270 electoral votes, there will be no need to go through the formal and impossible process of eliminating the electoral college via constitutional amendment.
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Wealthy urbanites tend to have vacation homes outside of the city. They clog up the roads in the summer to get away from vibrant urban areas to come to the cesspools with our nasty mountains and lakes and boring clean air. I wonder why they would go through all that expense to leave the beauty and diversity of the city.
To see something different, it's called tourism. I have taken vacations to Canada and the Rocky Mountain states, but would never live either place. Your theory doesn't hold water
Small towns are often what is left when all the smart people move out.
As George Carlin put it, “Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider.”
The next time you attend your high school reunion, compare the yearbook memories to the folks who are still back home to the ones who got up and left. There will be a few get up and go folks who decide to stay, found success in the family business, maybe a couple of teachers, an attorney, a nurse here and there. But by and large, those with get up and go, got up and left.
The folks who stayed behind generally have strong ties to their family, their church family, and often their community.
Not that the folks who left town don't value family and community, just not at the expense of a life of financial stability, perhaps even financial success.
Some left town looking for a life of adventure.
Some left because they just didn't know a good thing when they saw it.
The economic decline of small towns has left them filled with people who are scared that things are going to get worse, so they cling to whatever promises they can.
Small towns are often what is left when all the smart people move out.
The economic decline of small towns has left them filled with people who are scared that things are going to get worse, so they cling to whatever promises they can.
How silly.
You attempt to tell us what's in the minds of millions of people you don't know, don't have anything to do with, and have no dealings with. Must be terrible to be so "smart" that you express such contempt at so much of the United States.
If this is what "smart" means, you can keep it. You simply demonstrate that which you accuse.
Exactly, and now people want to make the Electoral College about slavery, and hence racism. They gravitate to that accusation because that is all they have. No logic, no facts, no evidence, no integrity.
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