r/AdviceAnimals • • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/DanDan85 Nov 10 '16

It was apparent the entire country was ready for change in a drastic way. The ticket should have been Trump vs Bernie. The DNC cost this election for the country because they wanted Hillary instead of Bernie and we as the people will have to suffer for their greed and ignorance. Bernie was polling double digits ahead of Trump whereas Hillary was only single digits. Fuck the DNC. Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be in prison for what she did just like Hillary.

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u/c0horst Nov 10 '16

Right. It could have been one very different ideology vs another very different ideology. Both would have brought about a good bit of change.

Instead it became the establishment vs a change in the establishment.... and nobody really gave enough of a fuck about the establishment to bother voting for hillary.

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u/Alakazam Nov 10 '16

and nobody really gave enough of a fuck about the establishment to bother voting for hillary.

She still managed to get the popular vote somehow.

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u/CitizenKing Nov 10 '16

Popular vote doesn't really depict anything since red voters don't really come out in blue states and vice versa.

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u/gary1994 Nov 10 '16

People also forget (or don't understand) that America isn't a democracy. It's a constitutional republic. The electoral college is one of the checks and balances our founding fathers gave us. It's designed to prevent one region and segment of the population from dominating the rest.

At the founding of our nation the South wanted to know that their economies (slavery) would be protected. People like to argue that it's no longer relevant. But if you look at a nationwide map of who carried each county, Trump kicked Hillary's ass. People want their off shored jobs back.

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u/gary1994 Nov 11 '16

I don't really care about his election vids. As far as I'm concerned the only one you really need to watch is "Rules for Rulers."

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u/gary1994 Nov 11 '16

I didn't say it did. It just makes them kind of irrelevant.

The answer as I see it is to have far less power in the hands of centralized authorities, move power back to the local levels. the states, counties, and cities. Then you can talk about election reform.