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Problems With The Electoral College And Why It Might Ruin Our Democracy. A Solution Is To Abolish It!

Problems With The Electoral College And Why It Might Ruin Our Democracy. A Solution Is To Abolish It!

Some Concers Over Segments Of The Population Trying To Make Good Decisions:

One group of delegates felt strongly that Congress shouldn’t have anything to do with picking the president. Too much opportunity for chummy corruption between the executive and legislative branches.

Another camp was dead set against letting the people elect the president by a straight popular vote. First, they thought 18th-century voters lacked the resources to be fully informed about the candidates, especially in rural outposts. 

Second, they feared a headstrong “democratic mob” steering the country astray. 

And third, a populist president appealing directly to the people could command dangerous amounts of power.
(Like Trump)

Why The Electoral College Was Created And Has Failed Some Times.

 the founders created the institution to make sure that large states did not dominate small ones in presidential elections, that power between Congress and state legislatures was balanced, and that there would be checks and balances in the constitutional system.

 

Problems With The Electrial College:

Electoral College no longer is a constructive force in American politics, and why it is time to move to the direct popular election of presidents. 

 Five times in American history — 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016 — the winner of the national popular vote lost the presidency to the winner of the Electoral College. Many Americans saw this as undemocratic and urged that the Electoral College should go.

The latest controversy arose when Donald Trump lost the popular vote by almost three million ballots yet won the Electoral College by 74 votes. That made him the fifth U.S. chief executive to become president without winning the popular vote.

In 2016, Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College with 304 votes compared to 227 votes for Hillary Clinton.

 Republican Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes.

OPINION:  It seems obvious to many that Hillary Clinton should have become president in 2016 presidential election!  Evidently it is not decided by the will of the people but by a despicable screwed up system!

“Faithless electors are electors who will vote for who they want to be president regardless of the popular vote”.

“there are still about 20 states that don’t have any laws restricting electors.”

Possible Solutions That Will Probably Fail:

“… there are not enough votes in Congress or the states to pass and ratify an amendment abolishing the Electoral College.

 

Electoral College Next Challenge:

Now enter Donald Trump. Twice impeached, although not convicted; allegedly the beneficiary of Russian interference in 2016; now facing two indictments, with more possibly coming; already held liable for sexual harassment, and facing many other lawsuits. He is implicated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and expresses no remorse for his behavior. By one count, he lied more than 20,000 times in office.

Yet Trump’s base is with him. He is the odds-on favorite to win the GOP nomination and perhaps the presidency again. For the first time, America could have a convicted felon as president.

Our constitutional framers would have declared him unfit to be president. Were the Electoral College operating how they had originally intended, there is no way Trump would now be a viable candidate for president. Perhaps the prospect of a second Trump presidency is the best argument one can offer for retaining the Electoral College.

 

Founding Father’s Interesting Belief That May Hold True Or Not In This Next Election:

 They explicitly rejected a popular vote for president because they did not trust voters to make a wise choice.

OPINION:  Now we have a system that has been twisted by special interest groups that do not represent the majority of citizens.

Recommended Reading:

The Electoral College Is a Threat to 21st Century Democracy

 

Posted 9-11-2024.    Posted by Score Card

A List Of Expected Changes To This Country If Trump Wins

A List Of Expected Changes To This Country If Trump Wins

This entry is part 14 of 15 in the series Donald Trump

From my day to day hearing and viewing news coverage for the upcoming election I was annoyed a bit hearing some people making their decisions, to vote for Trump, based on just a few factors.  I am pretty sure that Donald Trump has a LOT of negative factors as to why you should not vote for him.  I decided to find a prior list and add the elements to  construct a SIMPLE list of reasons.  My intent is to show a LOT of reasons so as to push the reader to act against Trump.

I was looking for lists of reasons why Donald Trump would not be good for this country and started with this magazine article by the Washington Post.  It’s focus seems to be broad meaning how Trump would impact this whole country.  I hope to offer soon another list of reasons why Donald Trump will hurt the individual.:


What Will Happen to America if Trump Wins Again? Experts Helped Us Game It Out.

(Source:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/10/country-after-second-trump-term/)

 

I sincerely apologize to the author of the article for extrapolating parts of the post.  I really hope this does NOT diminish the writer’s efforts!

HERE IS THE LIST OF REASONS WHY TRUMP WILL BE A DISASTER FOR AMERICA IF ELECTED PRESIDENT:

 He will “purge the FBI.  then set about trying to politicize the FBI.”

“strip as many as tens of thousands of federal employees of their civil service protections.”

“…would restore a patronage system that hasn’t existed in the United States since reforms were enacted in the late 19th century.”

He “… would mark the death knell of expertise in the U.S. government.”

“Execute drug dealers.

“Move homeless people to tent cities.”

“Eliminate the Education Department.”

“Restrict voting to one day using paper ballots.”

“profound shifts in military and foreign policy.”

“In a second term, cautionary voices will be fewer”

“remove the safeguards … sometimes mockingly called the ‘adults in the room.’ 

“expect to see armored troop carriers, soldiers with flashing bayonets and enormous missile launchers stream down Pennsylvania Avenue on Veterans Day as Trump finally gets a military parade.”

“… could restore Confederate symbols to military bases”

“reinstitute an effective ban on transgender people serving, and dismantle ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts that his Senate allies already lampoon as “woke.”

“As for the use of military power abroad, Trump mostly favored withdrawals during his term”

“There’s a higher likelihood that the president would take risky action, but they would be risky actions of retreat, or abandonment of allies … “

“he might just stop the flow of arms, ammunition and material to Kyiv.”

“Trump’s election, means the end of the Western alliance.”

 “a ruinous blow to the country’s stature in the eyes of friends and foes.”

“… no longer being willing to respect norms and institutions that are essential to good governance.”

“key allies may be loath to share top secrets.”

“If Trump is in power again, after four years, many … people won’t ever trust us again.”

“Trump’s reelection would be another sign the country is “spiraling down” into a “post-truth” era.”

“Trump has been able to add to the narrative that if democracy doesn’t deliver what I want, then it must be a flaw in the democracy,”

“a decade-long decline in political and civil rights in the United States that accelerated during Trump’s term, putting us on par with Romania and Panama.”

“America is already gripped by an unprecedented level of what political scientists call “pernicious polarization” — stoked and exploited by Trump — and a second Trump term could make it dangerously worse”

“The most immediate concern of Trump returning to the presidency is it would provide the greatest domestic terrorist threat of our time.”

“harsh measures to counter illegal immigration.”

“Dehumanizing rhetoric and conspiracy theories about White people losing their status will lead to more mass shootings targeting immigrants.”

“serious damage to the democracy may be inevitable either way if Trump is on the ballot.”

“ you’re going to see populations sorting themselves out according to where people feel safe and at home, which will mean red states becoming more red and blue states becoming more blue.”

“Upholding Democracy in the Age of the Big Lie.”

““What if the ties that bind us have become so weak that even that can’t result in the enforcement of federal court rulings?”

“If someone like Trump … comes into office with a clear contempt for the rule of law, which I think time and again he has demonstrated, at what point does the rule of law evaporate?”

“The chances of civil war increase.”

“ A narrow or dubious Trump victory would inspire massive, potentially violent protests on the left.”

““Folks on the right think that chaos is a button that they push.”

“The spiral of violence, response and counter-response would create the kind of disorder that Trump — no longer constrained by his secretary of defense and attorney general — could use to justify invoking the Insurrection Act. Then federal troops would flood the streets of American cities.”

“ … his reelection could wreck democracy.”

Further Reading:

Is a blueprint for the demise of the United States.  Donald Trump allegedly endorses this plan.

Posted 9-9-2024  Posted by Score Card.

DEMOCRACY IS THE ONLY ANSWER FOR SUCESS OF A SOCIETY BECAUSE WE ALL ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.

DEMOCRACY IS THE ONLY ANSWER FOR SUCESS OF A SOCIETY BECAUSE WE ALL ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE.

The best pure form of government

Democracy relies on everyone to help rule and control this wonderful form of governing thus success or failure is shared.  But, the process requires that all citizens work together, make their voice heard, and vote.

Democracy is a country ruled by all the people.  It is a country not for me but we that rule!

Some bad forms of governing

Plutocracy is one of the worst forms of governing.  It is a self centered idiot form of government!

Plutocrats are:

  • It is a self centered, thus moronic, form of rule and governing.
  • It is a selfish form of governing a business and nations for a long list of reasons!
  • Stupid maybe the primary reason followed by a vast number of other reasons.  
  • Viewpoints of plutocrats are thus limited.
  • Plutocracy’s typically are rewarded with payoffs that are to themselves and not shared.
  • Plutocracy is against Democracy partly because they are direct opposites in construction, operation and results.
  • If plutocrats work against the people then they are our enemy and we should work to destroy them!
  • They rig the system to benefit themselves.

Dictatorships are:

  • Same list at for Plutocracy but sometimes supported by the military.

Monarchies are:

About the same as Plutocracy except the ruler pretends to have favored status from maybe god, past royalty ties  inherited, appointed such from some powerful group.

List of some politicians, counties, examples and knowledge to help explain plutocracy:

THE UNITED STATES MIGHT BE A CORPORATOCRACY.

(A FLAWED AND SELFISH FORM OF DEMOCRACY)

 

 

Posted 9-3-2024.  Updated 9-4-2024.   Posted by Score Card

Women In The USA Seem To Be Rising

Women In The USA Seem To Be Rising

My idea for this blog article resulted from visiting a Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz promotion materials booth, two different days.  Both days, as soon as I reached the booth, rather quickly, two women appeared, apparently not knowing each other.  They were very nice individuals.  I got to think about this happening and this occurrence triggered a view in my mind that it seemed to me that women have recently, in my mind, have possibly become more active in politics.  The basis for this view is that when I watch MSNBC News, women seem to predominate more to a noticeable extent.

“The women of MSNBC are reshaping the television landscape”

https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-ig-women-warriors-of-msnbc-20190606-story.html

I did not want to jump to any conclusions until I searched the Internet so see if I could find any opinions concerning this thesis.

Yes, women have become more involved in many areas of society, including the labor force, politics, and community organizations.” (Search Labs | AI Overview).

 

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Opinion: Diversity in the Media is Something We Need to Keep Seeing

How Women Have Helped MSNBC Tip the Cable-News Ratings Scales

POSTED 9-1-2024
POSTED BY: SCORE CARD

 Some conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires want to rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy.

 Some conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires want to rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy.

” conservative business leaders and reactionary billionaires who’ve focused not just on winning elections, but on rewriting the rules of our economy and our democracy. The growing power of these forces has encouraged the GOP to embrace a retrograde economic program that has little support even among its own voters. One effect is more inequality. Another is a Republican Party more reliant on white identity to stay in power.”

 

With concentrated wealth has come unprecedented investments in politics by billionaire donors and business organizations, mostly on the right. 

 

It was Ronald Reagan who truly began to chart the path that would, in time, make the Republican Party safe for plutocracy.

 

Posted by Score Card

When Trump Looks Into His Mirror

When Trump Looks Into His Mirror

This entry is part 13 of 15 in the series Donald Trump

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Trump has called Harris “crazy,” “nuts” and “dumb as a rock,

He must have been looking in a mirror at himself, when he got that idea.

Posted 8-29-2024
Posted by Score Card

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