RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
August 4, 2020 at 9:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2020 at 9:50 am by Deesse23.)
(August 4, 2020 at 8:23 am)polymath257 Wrote:(August 4, 2020 at 3:36 am)Nomad Wrote: No the simple reason Trump got in is that the US electoral system is fundamentally anti-democratic, from the Electoral College fatally favouring empty sstates, to the ability of rich people to openly buy both politicians and elections all the way through to the fact that the whole procees is controlled by political appointees, making voter supression, gerrymandering anod over and under counting of votes endemic in the system.
And by extension, that makes the whole damn useless constitution anti-democratic because these defects were written into it deliberately.
Well, the original purpose of the EC was specifically to be anti-democratic. The founding fathers wanted a republic and not a democracy.
Republic and democracy is not an either or proposition. Just like (a)theism and (a)gnosticism.
Evidence: There are democratic republics out there.
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