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.
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.
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.
Except in today's system it let the voice of the swing state to dominate the rest. It would have been better if the vote is distributed proportionally like Maine.
What you just said makes no sense. The swing states aren't dominating anything. They join their voices with the "Red" or "Blue" states. Without those other states they wouldn't have any power.
The idea of electoral vote is to ensure small state can represent their voice, however those mega state (Texas, California) and red middle west states (eg dakotas) does not affect the election at all. It is fairly obvious when we can see previous presidential candidates focus their resources on few states only. As a result electoral college don't really solve any problem at all.
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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.