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Absurdity of the Electoral College:
Here's one nice thing we can now say about the Electoral College: it's slightly less harmful to our democracy than it was just days ago. In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states have the right to "bind" their electors, requiring them to support whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote in their state. Justice Elena Kagan's opinion was a blow to so-called "faithless electors," but a win for self-government. "Here," she wrote, "the People rule."
Yet while we can all breathe a sigh of relief that rogue electors won't choose (or be coerced) into derailing the 2020 presidential contest, the Court's unanimous ruling is a helpful reminder that our two-step electoral process provides America with no tangible benefits and near-limitless possibilities for disaster. To put it more bluntly, the Electoral College is a terrible idea. And thanks to the Justices' decision, getting rid of it has never been easier.
[...] The Electoral College, in other words, serves no useful purpose, other than to intermittently and randomly override the people's will. It's the appendix of our body politic. Most of the time we don't notice it, and then every so often it flares up and nearly kills us.
[...] Justice Kagan's words – "Here, the People rule" – are stirring. But today, they are still more aspiration than declaration. By declining to make the Electoral College an even great threat to our democracy, the Court did its job. Now it's up to us. If you live in a state that hasn't joined the interstate compact, you can urge your state legislators and your governor to sign on. And no matter where you're from, you can dispel the myths about the Electoral College and who it really helps, myths that still lead some people to support it despite its total lack of redeeming qualities.
More than 215 years after the Electoral College was last reformed with the 12th Amendment, we once again have the opportunity to protect our presidential-election process and reassert the people's will. Regardless of who wins the White House in 2020, it's a chance we should take.
Would you get rid of the Electoral College? Why or why not?
Also at:
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Supreme Court rules states can remove 'faithless electors'
(Score: 0, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday July 13 2020, @05:03PM (4 children)
Does not matter who anyone votes for if no citizens have privacy or right to assemble.
As of now any individual can be targeted and harassed without any due process, any organization can be infiltrated and taken over by the FBI.
This is late stage empire, the patrician class moves swarms of plebians at its whim using rhetorical tricks on homogenous mass media.
A hundred years from now they will ask how everyone was controlled so easily, then my books and life story will be in much higher demand, because no one is going to believe you were so easily herded into such stupidity as the present by mere websites. You could take this as a compliment, but I dont advise it, people looking for a better explanation for your profound ignorance is not flattering.
No one believes in either political party, everyone either votes out of hatred of the other guy or some other cynicism, so even from one of the good justices this is rich.
"The people" are repressed by a police state they hardly can fathom, much less face the truth of what they have been cheering for, and that for all of their statues and fanfare, they can only claim to be marginally better than china, but not good by any standard.
"we are marginally better than china! don't whistle blow on our atrocities or we will shoot you in the back! epstein is with your daughter right now!" - tepid rallying cry heard as the 10th mountain airborne ranger division engages the enemy in venezuela(or nevada after the invasion...)
https://archive.ph/T95pm [archive.ph] probable cause
https://archive.is/Eu1Z4 [archive.is] incite civil war
https://archive.is/YkJr8 [archive.is] zersetzung
https://archive.is/TmRS6 [archive.is] trafficking
https://archive.is/UUt9W [archive.is] phone phetish
https://archive.is/jkjA6 [archive.is] history, rewritten, for the empire
https://archive.is/ZinJT [archive.is] qrd of last 50 years
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @05:05PM
WTF did you just say about my mother, bitch?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @05:16PM (2 children)
I think the right to assemble is as important as the right to repair.
The former should be done once the number of sick people decline, due to getting the spread of a disease under control.
The latter can be done in small groups or even alone.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday July 13 2020, @05:36PM (1 child)
TPTB now have the power to make it so the number of sick never decline
so they have absolute power, and apparently, your absolute trust.
you thought you were getting free tv shows but you paid for them with your mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @10:24PM
You spew a lot of noise, but this is high fidelity signal.