Posted on Nov 12, 2016
Where would you rather live: The United States of America or Detroit?
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Let's talk. It's better than fighting or rioting. The election of 2016 has raised an issue and given us a perfect example to compare the Electoral College system of selecting a President vs a popular vote. Neither candidate this year, Hillary or Donald, is popular, so we needn't be distracted by personalities. No one can predict how either might perform as President or what challenges they will face, so let's not allow ourselves to be distracted by hysterical premonitions. Let's just focus on the voting system.
Where would you rather live: The United States of America or Detroit?
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Prager University video on the electoral college said it best: The electoral college protects the people against the tyranny of the majority.
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CPT Jack Durish
Do You Understand the Electoral College?
Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vot...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6s7jB6-GoU
Prager has a couple of excellent presentations on the subject
Prager has a couple of excellent presentations on the subject
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I would prefer to live as far as poposble from anti-American scum that are not bright enough to understand that Detroit is part of the United startes of America as anyplace else n the US,
Bigits babbling about the"Real America 'are just announcing to the world that they hav3 not the slightest damned damned clue what America is.
You argument for the electoral colledge wolud make sense if it had not been so completely distorted by laws requiring how the electors vote as originally set it was have provided protection against demagogues chosen by the majority, now it is installing a demagogue against the will of the majority.
Bigits babbling about the"Real America 'are just announcing to the world that they hav3 not the slightest damned damned clue what America is.
You argument for the electoral colledge wolud make sense if it had not been so completely distorted by laws requiring how the electors vote as originally set it was have provided protection against demagogues chosen by the majority, now it is installing a demagogue against the will of the majority.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
CPT Jack Durish - Because you used the idiotic Real American meme, I have a fact that you might find astounding You can not say Detroit or American because Detroit is as a much America as the place where you live.
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CPT Jack Durish
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - I take it then that you didn't read the linked article or don't understand metaphors. I wish I could say I'm sorry but I'm not. I can't write complex ideas at a primary reading level
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
CPT Jack Durish - I did tread the linked artical and if founds the anolgyies to be a bit obscene and the metaphors false, You can mnot make a metaphore work if is is massed on ignorance of what you are comparing,.
Perhaps you might want to fact check your assumptions,
Can I ask a question when was the last time you were in Detroit? Have you ever lived there or even know anyone that has lived there is the last decade or so? I grew up abut 60 miles as the crow flys (across water) from Detroit and it is not all that bad a place, The proper term for metaphors based on ignorance and analogies a on ignorance is BULLSHIT.
Perhaps you might want to fact check your assumptions,
Can I ask a question when was the last time you were in Detroit? Have you ever lived there or even know anyone that has lived there is the last decade or so? I grew up abut 60 miles as the crow flys (across water) from Detroit and it is not all that bad a place, The proper term for metaphors based on ignorance and analogies a on ignorance is BULLSHIT.
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CPT Jack Durish
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - Your opinion is duly noted. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
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Here's what I think about our voting system, brothers. I think that the populace does not vote, as individuals, on any federal matter. The election of the Chief Executive of the federal government is a federal matter. The people vote for their state representatives. The state representatives (proportional in number according to the populations of their states) are the ones who cast votes on federal matters. That's how our republic works for everything. People elect representatives. Their representatives vote on federal questions. The conglomerate "popular vote" for a presidential election is an artificial combination of distinct, coherent, and discreet populations. It is absolutely irrelevant to a federal election.
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