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#4641 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 508 weeks ago
No, I don't support it because it favors Republicans. I favor it because that's what the constitution says and I like the concept of states. Look at how skewed California is in their voting in this past election. Almost 62% of the state voted for her whereas the nation as a whole was split almost 50/50. States have their own culture and beliefs, so just because California has ballooned the past 50 years or so, doesn't mean its culture should dictate how folks in Wyoming live. California alone accounts for 10% of the EC, so it's getting its fair representation in a system that recognizes states.
And this wouldn't even have been an issue if Clinton ran a competent campaign and stepped foot in Wisconsin and spent any time in PA and Michigan outside of Philly and Detroit.
I agree with a lot of this...it's shameful that she didn't come to my home state. How dare she take it for granted. I believe this was actually her campaign managers decision. I believe I read somewhere that Bill took great exception to all of this...but wasn't influential in changing the strategy. What's more egregious is that it seems these decisions were made to obtain. Blow out.
If you believe that logic about California then I hope you remain consistent when it comes to Texas. Easier to stay to consider, while not all that seriously at times, succeeding and becoming their own country. They are big enough to be able to do that. If they are part of the union, then it shouldn't matter if they have 1000 electoral votes, if you like the electoral college you like the formula that they use to determine Vote allocation even when California participates.
#4642 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 508 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:Guess I'm not the only one who knows why the Democrats are suddenly against the electoral college:
Well, he is exactly right. This is why they want amnesty. Not because they care for the Mexicans but to lock up their vote. Very shameful.
Is it as shameful is the gerrymandering that has gone on at the state level over the past eight years? Is it a shameful as the consolidation of the angry white vote that Trump won on? Surely other demographics voted for Trump, but he had the angry white vote in his pocket from the get go.
I'm sure none of those things bother you because they help you win. I'm sure none of those things bother you because the ends justify the means for you. But I will not be called shameful for wanting to make voting easier not more difficult. I'm sure you will always find a way to justify not allowing people to vote that will vote against your cause. That will always be OK with you in the hypocritical Republican Party.
Again, I will go on record as a registered Democrat that I am not for abolishing the electoral college. However, if your political parties going to continue to restrict voting and make it more difficult for people, then I get more inclined to abolish it.
However, it must be admitted that the electoral college is arbitrary to some degree. In addition, as I've mentioned before in this thread, twice in my lifetime now has my candidate with the popular vote lost the election. You conservative Republicans don't give a shit about that because you been the beneficiary of the slight bias in the electoral college twice now in the last five elections. Not only does that not give you pause, you're proud of it as though the electoral college was there to make sure your political party wins regardless of the popular vote.
It's stupid. It's just plain stupid that you're unwilling to admit all of those faults listed above and then call Democrats shameful for wanting to abolish the electoral college.
#4643 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 508 weeks ago
You have to be a special kind of retarded to say "my culture sucks, so I'm going to bring in hordes of people who don't speak my language so they can change our culture." Yes, American culture is superior to all other cultures. If I didn't feel that way, I wouldn't be living here. But since I've traveled to every continent but Africa (soon to be fixed in April!) I'm a hell of a lot more qualified than you or other vacationers who spent a week in Paris and think they have a clue. We're at the point where displaying the American flag in school can be considered offensive. That's going full fucking retard.
What's full fucking retard is to not understand what American culture is....it's a conglomeration of everyone else. It's the best and worst, it's the good and the bad and the ugly of the pretty much every other country in the world.
You have far too much hubris for me RF...I've never left north America and I don't need to, to know that.
#4644 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 508 weeks ago
Smoking Guns wrote:Do you guys prefer this map?
http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-conte … ty-map.png
And ID, THEIR VOTE DOES COUNT, NY and California both went for HRC.
States should not be voting, the people should. You know as well as I do a a lot of Democrats and center left independents in Alabama and Tennessee don't vote specifically because their votes don't mean shit. Election day sucks for me.
I don't have a problem with the EC for the most part...but no that map doesn't accurately depict things...if you want to be forthright with your depiction, then counties should be proportionate to their population not physical size.
#4645 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 508 weeks ago
They don't speak english.....contribute and adapt to our culture... I have no interests in bringing in poor foreigners who aren't interested in becoming American, only living under the comfort America provides.
You're describing my ancestors when they first arrived....they didn't know english...
I think this is an old argument made by birthers made since the beginning of time. I think you need accept that people bringing their culture here changes our culture as much as it does theirs.
I care that they adhere to our laws
I think you care about the laws that only benefit you. No one here is arguing that they shouldn't pony up and pay their fair share in addition to following our laws...but illegals are here now. You can do one of two things: 1) you can ship them back to where they came from OR 2) you accept the ones that are here and find them a path to citizenship so they can start paying fair share and adhering to the laws.
I think in the end though, most conservatives don't want them to contribute....they just want them gone. Because there is one thing a conservative never wants...and that's change.
You said it yourself,
I care that they... adapt to our culture.
And I think there lies the most telling statement of all...it's your culture that you believe is superior and that everyone else should adhere to...I can only guess as to why...but this is exactly why the rest of the world finds Americans so annoying. Maybe because 'you were here first' or 'America is great at making money.' Whatever the case, this is exactly the aspect of American culture that I find repulsive. The hubris of the average American, the Khardashian culture, it's disturbing to me to see the lack of self-awareness that seems to be sense of pride of Americans.
#4646 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 509 weeks ago
misterID wrote:Smoking Guns wrote:Do you guys prefer this map?
http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-conte … ty-map.png
And ID, THEIR VOTE DOES COUNT, NY and California both went for HRC.
States should not be voting, the people should. You know as well as I do a a lot of Democrats and center left independents in Alabama and Tennessee don't vote specifically because their votes don't mean shit. Election day sucks for me.
And you don't think that's true of republicans in NY or CA? The rules are based on the EC, so the candidates campaigned based on the EC. If the popular vote was how they handled the election, both Trump and Clinton would have campaigned differently. And yes ID, admitting millions of Hispanics and giving citizenship to their children is how California went from Reagan to solid blue. Or are we supposed to be ok with the left desiring millions of unskilled laborers dropping off babies so they can't be deported.
Dropping off babies?
At the end of the day, I find it ironic that a free-market capitalist is pissed about somebody who is willing to do it cheaper and better.
#4647 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 509 weeks ago
misterID wrote:Smoking Guns wrote:Do you guys prefer this map?
http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-conte … ty-map.png
And ID, THEIR VOTE DOES COUNT, NY and California both went for HRC.
States should not be voting, the people should. You know as well as I do a a lot of Democrats and center left independents in Alabama and Tennessee don't vote specifically because their votes don't mean shit. Election day sucks for me.
I'm sure every republican in California and ny voted though, right ID? The level of ignorance should be stunning, but sadly it isn't. More than a month later and you're still not even making an effort to understand why what happened actually happened and are wasting all this energy on how stupid anyone that voted for trump is. Ironic if you stop to think about it, but stopping to think about things isn't really a liberal strong point.
You've been saying that since the election, as though there's some profound epiphany we are all supposed to have about Donald Trump being president. What is there to understand? It's not rocket science. People like charismatic people no matter how substance-less they are.
#4648 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 509 weeks ago
The maps are not misleading though. The entire point is tho show exactly why we have the electoral college. 2.6 of Hillary's 2.8M popular vote advantage can be attributed to JUST her difference in LA and NYC. Two cities. That's it.
Every single person in LA or NYC didn't vote for Clinton either... the map is showing only 51% and more because 50% would cancel out the other vote and less than 50% wouldn't matter when trying to show who won what.
It is entirely misleading....the map disproportionately weights counties with nobody in them. NYC and LA are the two largest cities in the county. People living on top of each other in physically small but highly dense populations.
It's like your saying that if your live in the city your votes should count less because we live so close together.
#4649 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 509 weeks ago
a map from the American catholic.....wow.....who gives a shit?
Get used to it because you're never going to get 38 states to pass an amendment changing it. California shouldn't dictate the election.
I'm still not sure what you're arguing here....is this the beginning of an argument that basically states the physical size of your state should dictate your influence on the election? If so, Montana and Alaska should have 100 electoral votes.
California has 55 EVs....and they deserve them all.
Furthermore, Hillary got 3 million more popular votes than Drumpf...whether that matters in the EC or not is not debatable....but it sure does matter in general.
Are you purporting that losing the popular vote by that margin but still winning the EC makes this an obvious mandate for President Drumpf?
Are you suggesting that somehow California's population, larger than any other state, shouldn't be allocated the number of EVs it has? That a representative democracy would be better served if they weren't proportionately represented?
Are you arguing that the misleading map from Catholic America...the map that treats the physical size of the country/state/county as the metric for showing you how the country voted. The same map that shows Cook County, Illinois to be an ant hill but the state of South Dakota and Wyoming as mountains next to said ant hill....when the combined populations of both states are about 10% of cook county AT BEST!
C'mon man...show me those critical thinking skill.....
#4650 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 509 weeks ago
Randall Flagg wrote:I said when Comey released that letter a week before the election that it had to be something major, because I found it unfathomable he would do that with nothing new to provide. I said that on this forum and have since stated he should resign for that stunt. How much it impacted the election is impossible to say, but there is no denying it did. We have the same thing here now with the CIA. If they have something, brief Congressional leadership and the President behind closed doors if it's that sensitive. But if our two major intelligence agencies are going to start playing politics to upset the American people, that's a hell of a lot bigger problem than if Russia leaked FACTUAL and ACCURATE emails from the DNC.
While I do think it was political (obviously), Hillary does share in the blame. Having emails on the laptop that ended up in the Anthony Weiner probe does show a lax carelessness of her stuff. Myb they weren't full on work related or confidential, but it's still pretty careless. That more than most other things offended me.
I do find it amusing to alot of Republicans Russia previously was still the big bad enemy, dating back to the Cold War memories they couldn't let go. Even moreso than China, North Korea, Middle East. Now however, suddenly Russia is like an ally for us to them, and now more of a good guy. Like wtf?
Exactly, what's good is bad....what's bad is good....whatever gets you elected...
I don't think Republicans can win a straightforward election show anymore....that's why it needs to be this Jerry Springer circus of misdirection and manipulation. Just a shit ton of smoke and mirrors until we all forget what we were talking about....meanwhile the billionaires are cutting themselves checks from the government.
