In the United States, the presidential election is decided by what is known as the electoral college, which is:
the group of presidential electors required by the Constitution to form every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president. Each state appoints electors under the methods described by its legislature, equal in number to its congressional delegation (representatives and senators) totaling 535 electors.
This has precisely one effect: providing voters in states with small populations a considerable advantage in terms of political power over those in states with large populations. For example, in Wyoming, one electoral vote derives from each group of 193,000 citizen. In California, that number is 741,000, meaning that Wyoming voters are 3.8 times more powerful than Californians in determining the president and vice president.
What makes this important are the factors that go into making small states small and big states big. What we see when we examine this is that big states tend to have higher levels of education, productivity, and affluence. Thus the electoral college skews U.S. voting in favor of the relatively uneducated, poor and uninformed.
Does that sound like to a good idea to anyone who honestly wants this nation directed by intelligence? There is a reason that Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. are headquartered in California and not in Wyoming; these decisions were not made by rolling dice.
There is a push to abolish the electoral college, and, needless to say, I support it.
The vast majority of Americans are thrilled that the midterms brought us the “blue tsunami,” but there are a couple of things that don’t really add up. You may have noticed that:
The U.S. wants a random alcoholic Fox News “journalist’s” head on the plate for having orchestrated the war in Iran, when all he was doing was pursuing his loyalty to Donald Trump, the man who started this asinine and grossly illegal war.
There seems to be no effort to cause Trump, who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. federal government, to face accountability for his treasonous acts.
What’s up with the media? Is there a concerted effort to avoid the facts? What’s the problem with honesty, and telling Americans the truth? Isn’t this the clearest instance of gaslighting in our history? Are we now trying to pretend that Trump never existed?
If such a landslide victory against a would-be autocrat had happened anywhere else on Earth, that traitor would be in prison now, in most cases facing execution.
I was hoping, now that we have midterms behind us, that the morons trying to convince voters that the U.S. is a socialist/communist country would come up with a new package of s*** to spread around.
The country with the highest percentage of ultra-high net worth individuals? Norway.
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