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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:34:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-22, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2024-10-21 9:21 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:59:58 -0400, Joel wrote:
>> 
>>> I would almost believe this if Trump were going to win, but he isn't.
>>> Kamala will make him defeated again ...
>> 
>> Harris seems guaranteed to win the popular vote over Trump. In a
>> democracy, that would be enough. In the US, it isn’t.
>
> Even the dumbest citizen knows that it wouldn't make sense for the 
> presidency to be decided by the metropolises of the country simply 
> because the agricultural sectors feeding the parasites of those areas 
> are sparsely populated. The Electoral College ensures that people doing 
> the real work get to have a say, not just the welfare recipients living 
> in slums having twenty children despite not being able to feed any of them.
>
> Without such a system, there would be no reason for agricultural states 
> not to decide to secede, especially since the politics of the masses are 
> wholly incompatible with every one of their values.

Yep. That's why the U.S. has an electoral college, so that a few cities 
can't run the whole country.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien