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Senator Boxer Introduces Bill to Eliminate Electoral College
"This is the only office in the land where you can get more votes and still lose the presidency," Boxer said in a statement. "The Electoral College is an outdated, undemocratic system that does not reflect our modern society, and it needs to change immediately. Every American should be guaranteed that their vote counts."
[...] "When all the ballots are counted, Hillary Clinton will have won the popular vote by a margin that could exceed two million votes, and she is on track to have received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history except Barack Obama," Boxer said.
Trump will be the fifth president in U.S. history to win the election despite losing the popular vote. George W. Bush won the most recent such election, in 2000.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wLQz-LgrM
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @05:22AM
[scratching head] I *did* live in 1900s America. Tho I suspect you mean pre-WW2. Okay, I'm not *that* old...
There is no case where a revolution didn't end in blood, and with a worse crowd taking over... generally with the revolution's founders going under the blade. Be careful what you wish for. Tho it seems you wish for the French Terror.
(Note that the American Revolution was actually an insurrection, not a revolution.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @01:03PM
That's mostly true, but not entirely true. India's successful peaceful rebellion against British rule, and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution are a couple notable exceptions. Otpor's successful campaign to depose Milosevic in Serbia is another.
Revolutions happen because the status quo cannot continue. The chance of a successful, prosperous post-revolution is better if violence can be avoided, because you're right about worse crowds taking over if the revolution was bloody. But if the defenders of the status quo make it impossible to effect change peacefully, then violence is inevitable.
For that reason I recommend the keepers of this status quo recognize this election result as the rebellion it is, and not try to co-opt and subvert it, or they will go to the guillotine.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday November 18 2016, @02:21PM
Haha, yes, I like your conclusion :D
Tho I still think it's a bit ...undictionary... to call a mass shift in popular opinion and its associated voting behavior a "revolution", even if it does depose a government.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.