Purple
Mountain Majesties
No electoral college means no swing states, which means
serious presidential candidate have to appeal to ALL
the states, not just a handful.
If the electoral college was such a good idea then
why don't we also use it in state elections? Why, for
example, don't we appoint
a specific number of electors for each county of each
state based on population and let them choose their
leaders,
just
like we do
in Washington every four years?
Because it'd be bat-shit crazy, that's why.
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Let's take this cartoon one step farther.
If there are people who already don't vote for president
now because they're in the minority party in their
state then these
same
people, let's call them "Republicans", won't
vote at all in a system where the president is chosen by majority vote because
they are vastly outnumbered by Democrats.
I could live with that.
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During the polar vortex Texas came
within mere minutes of a months-long
meltdown
of
its power
grid.
All of it, including gas. This would
have meant no electricity
for
grocery stores
or gas stations or businesses. There
would have been no heat, light, food,
or gas. It would have been a state-wide
catastrophe of Biblical proportions,
and all because Texas' GOP government
views
everything from
a profit
perspective.
Almost exactly how Trump and the Republican
Party mishandled the covid-19 pandemic.
One that turned out to be a seven trillion-dollar
mistake. Who knows. Maybe they planned
it that way. The banks get a lot of
money in interest from this country
for floating the national debt. And
if the debt gets high enough then maybe
that puts Medicare and social Security
on the block.
But I digress.
In you live in Texas and you are not
preparing for the next killer winter
storm then you're a fool. Texas's Republican
administration doesn't care about the
people of Texas, it
cares about its rate of return.
=Lefty=
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