Susan Rice's son converts to Conservatism

[_Brackite]

How long EAllusion until you get tired of elections being decided by voters and start finding a way for those that know better to make decisions such as who can become President?

That sounds like the original intention of the Electoral College.

If someone is saying the EC failed, what they mean is that it was originally intended to be a body of independent, wise men who could contravene the outcome of a democratic election if the results were not good. They're the original, more powerful version of superdelegates, if you will.

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[_ajax18]

That sounds like the original intention of the Electoral College.

So I suppose Rush is right on the money. People like EAllusion are probably already working to stop voters from having any say in elections.

[_honorentheos]

Ajax. Please. Anyone making this kind of conspiratorial claim is setting you and those like you up to use it as justification for something that you would otherwise recognize as an attack on basic civil liberties. It's crazy crazy.

[_honorentheos]

Beastie was the one who first posted on the differences in conservative and liberal brains.

Is this what you were referring to?

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[_Xenophon]

So I suppose Rush is right on the money. People like EAllusion are probably already working to stop voters from having any say in elections.

There is so much to unpack here that I'm not sure where to start.

The first of course being that if you really believed it should just be about "what the people want" you'd have to grapple with the idea that Trump lost the popular vote.

Second, if you had read the linked thread, you would note that EA's line of argument is that in the current system voting weight is not evenly distributed across all states (this probably is okay with you, since it favors Republicans at this point). That reads more as wanting to to empower voters in having a say, not take it away.

Third the comment you quoted directly was more of just a factual statement of how the EC was originally designed, not really a value statement on that setup.

Fourth, that you think the factual comment of an anonymous poster on this board is more dangerous to our democracy than a sitting president who seems to be bumbling his way into authoritarianism is quite telling.

ETA: honor with the much more succinct post