Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast

• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is superior about it at all? That it gives disproportional voting power to a few states?

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s what keeps the union together. Otherwise we would have split a long time ago.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …the electoral college keeps the union together…??

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are we still a nation after all these years? Do you not understand what the electoral college does? It makes sure the smaller states still have equal power in the government. Otherwise we’d split off because power would be held by a few states.

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    • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @wintermute_oregon @glimse
      
      Remember the articles of confederation.
      
      Federalism has always been a tricky balance.
      
      We are the United States, not United Citizens.

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• LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They also thought slaves should count as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes.

  So maybe we shouldn’t hold up their anti-democratic streak as an ideal.

  But reactionaries are gonna reactionary.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean so the democrats could own their slaves. Funny how things have not changed

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    • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’ve been over this, remember?

      Abraham Lincoln himself said the slavers called themselves Conservatives. You want to pretend like the great realignment didn’t happen, because facts are inconvenient to the narrative you find useful.

      I know reactionaries are anti-intillectuals, but the reading assignment was pretty short.

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      • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lincoln was a conservative himself. He described himself as a conservative and historians Label him as one. In the speech you cited, he was speaking as a conservative to other conservatives.

        Democrats owned slaves. Democrats still want to own slaves.

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    • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess if you knew basically nothing about US history that would be a convincing statement.

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    • amerika@annihilation.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @wintermute_oregon @LookBehindYouNowAndThen
      
      Slavery sucked because it was diversity.
      
      It was also cruel and pointless, since it was low quality labor.
      
      The solution is ending diversity.

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