Bruce D Pease
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And I say that unless y’all want all (yes ALL) national elections settled by New York, California, and the Uber liberal NorthEast....you darn well better pray that the electoral college stays in place as written.
Why We Have an Electoral College
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And I say that unless y’all want all (yes ALL) national elections settled by New York, California, and the Uber liberal NorthEast....you darn well better pray that the electoral college stays in place as written.
AlexanderA
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We are both a democracy and a constitutional republic. Apples and oranges. "Democracy" is a governing philosophy (consent of the governed), while "republic" is the institutional means of achieving that end. (All that "republic" implies is a governmental system that is not a monarchy. A republic can be a democracy, or a dictatorship. Plenty of examples of each exist in the world.)
Besides that, you misunderstand what a democracy is. You seem to think it's mob rule. No, that's "ochlocracy." To the ancient Greeks, who invented these terms, "democracy" was a system of self-government, with ordered rules. Athenian democracy was in fact a republic in its application.
AlexanderA
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Wrong. With everyone's vote being counted the same, votes would be wherever candidates could find them. What you would see would be nationwide campaigns, rather than ones focused on a few areas.
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We are a democracy not with a pure democracy form of government that uses popular vote rather a Constitutional Republic form of government that uses electoral college.
With attempt to erode our constitutional rights by many law makers, I side with the founders who chose to use electoral college to protect the voice of smaller states.
You do support the notion of all people, even minorities, having equal voice and rights, like voting rights as protected by the Bill of Rights?
Right?
Then you should also support the gun owner minority rights, as everyone has the equal right to self defense, as protected by the Bill of Rights.
MLK Jr's "I have a dream" speech not only speaks of equal rights to minorities but ALL EQUAL RIGHTS, including right to self defense, to all minorities.
Think about that.
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AlexanderA
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By the same token, if Democrats had to run nationwide campaigns, they would be less antigun. You can game this out in many different ways.
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Voting, and understanding how our system of government and election works is very important. But in and of themselves are off topic for THR. While it is related to maintaining our rights and freedoms, it is not a topic that is directly firearms related.
Politics and the dumpster fire that comes along with them is not something I'm going to indulge.
Politics and the dumpster fire that comes along with them is not something I'm going to indulge.
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