Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The Joy Of Democracy Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:34:30 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:34:31 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="412197b5f8790f62ab86b20b51cbba66"; logging-data="1471874"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/injaQtdM4Aykg08IUsN9q" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:erWFEbivWiFq22r8hVA3z+lofA8= Bytes: 2838 On 2024-10-22, CrudeSausage 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