(September 21, 2024 at 6:53 am)Pat Mustard Wrote:(September 17, 2024 at 1:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Your POV is wrong. There was no ‘shady group’ involved. Trump was handed power based on the rules laid down in the US Constitution. Outmoded rules that no longer fulfill their original function, to be sure, but rules just the same.
If Trump had been denied the Presidency after winning the EC, that would have been unconstitutional. The American Founders never intended for their new country to be ruled by ‘the will of the people’.
Boru
The sole reason for the EC was to maintain the legality of southern slavery by ensuring the popular will could be thwarted. It was always meant to be anti-democratic and pro-oligarch.
If such was it's purpose then it only means that it was shit from the very beginning.
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