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Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick
Understand your point. While we know and have experienced how well that works or doesn't work. I also know that in my state and the rest of the Northwest only the cities of Seattle, Portland and Boise matter both in state elections and national elections. If you control the city folk and give them bread and circuses they control the outcome at the expense of the farmers, ranchers, and other hard working productive people (usually the ones paying the Lions-share of taxes.)
To me, it seems those city council members and the legislative district representatives from the most populated counties want to raise taxes and give away free shit and the representatives from the outlying counties are the ones standing in the way. Seems the whole problem with congress is the same problem: California, New York, and one or two other East Coast states keep trying to tell the rest of the country what's best for them.
Honestly I wish the EC would go away. It's no longer needed as it was intended. Presidential candidates don't ride Steam Locomotive across the country and attend the State Fair during and election year. I believe a singular "popular" vote can be counted and verified electronically in seconds.
Let's fix voter fraud, gerrymandering districts for party politics and campaign finance reform and let the legitimate and authorized voters decide.
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I like most of your platform; however, I have to disagree with your stand on the EC. PSM has a much better idea - ditch the 17th Amendment. The Founding Fathers rightly feared the tyranny of the majority.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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