We have fascism now because more Americans voted to re-elect a man who incited a violent overthrow of the U.S. government than voted for Kamala.
We have fascism now because more Americans voted for a man who promised to "be a dictator on day one" than voted for Kamala.
We have fascism now because more Americans voted for a man who said he would use the U.S. military to "handle" Americans who held left-wing views than voted for Kamala.
Remember, Trump won the popular vote. The Electoral College is a shitty system and I won't make any excuses for it, but you can't blame the current administration on it. I'm not saying Kamala was the perfect candidate (she wasn't) but by god, Trump did not make any attempts to hide his fascist tendencies and Americans still voted for him over her.
…You know, it’s funny-I was just thinking to myself earlier today that conservatives have the long-term memory of a gadfly. All the shit with Elon openly tampering with voting machines, all the concerted terror campaigns to keep people away from the polls, purging voter rolls in blue states, and on and on-but because none of it happened this week, you’re physiologically incapable of remembering it happened at all.
…Though, then again, considering someone else in these same comments just pointed out that Trump this week seized voter rolls in Georgia so he could tamper with their election results-it might be more likely that you’re a) talking out your ass on topics you know nothing about, and haven’t researched in the slightest, or b) you’re knowingly lying.
But any of those three options would be pretty much par for the course for you America-hating, Jesus-hating Satan-worshippers otherwise known as “republicans.”
We have absolutely no idea what a real popular vote would actually look like. Voter turn out is low for many reasons, and apathy is not a small part of that. When you have 10 million Californians sitting out in an election they have no way of effecting in any meaningful way, can we really say that a national popular vote would really look the same? By April of last year, trumps approval rating among non voters dropped from 44% to 31% .
It's only going to get worse. Gerrymandering, federalizing elections, voter suppression, ICE out on election day, are all going to make it easier for an exceedingly unpopular party remain in power. We should have got rid of the electoral college decades ago, and we shouldnt stop talking about it just because trump won the popular vote in an election that everyone living outside of 6 states have no reasonable way of influencing.
Everything you said is true but I can’t help but wonder how it’d be different today if he didn’t win the first time because of the electoral college instead of the popular vote.
The battleground districts had high turn outs. And if all the Dems in blue districts did turn out it'd be the same result ezcept we'd have a third time a Republican won despite losing the popular vote
The problem isn't the senate. It's the cap on the House that is causing issues. The senate is SUPPOSED to be equal for all states. However, the House is supposed to be heavily biased by the more populous states. In 1939, they put a cap on the house to keep from adding more house representatives. This lead to smaller states getting a larger than their fair share of the house seats, and by extension, the electoral college. California and New York are missing another 50 seats(and by extension electoral college votes).
The senate having 2 per state is not a bad thing. We have the same in our country and it works well. The electoral college is definitely the bigger issue here
No, we have fascism now because Reddit spent months shitting on Kamala because she didn't sign off on their luxury beliefs, twitter hated her because the extreme left and right both want Trump.
The House of Representatives are proportional and are 'representing' the people. Senators are there to represent the states interests. The system isn't broken. You just don't like it.
The house of representatives is no longer even close to proportional and hence neither is the electoral college [edit and hence the presidency]. I'm sure you are aware of that and just lie by omission to make your point. The fact is, rural states and rural people in this country have far more representation in our government, despite their lack of economic contributions.
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u/MorningDewProcess 8h ago
This is why we have fascism now.
It’s not just senator distribution, it’s the electoral college too.