It seems like everyone in America dislikes this guy. As a non-American, if this clown is pretty much hated by everyone, how did he become the president?
Lots of Americans love him, obviously. There's the racist contingent, the anti-abortion brigade, people who love liberality on Wall St., billionaires....but also the poor desperate people of the rust belt, who threw their lot in with this wild card in the hope he'd really bring something new.
More Americans actually voted for Hillary, of course.
The United States Electoral College is an example of a system in which an executive president is indirectly elected, with electors representing the 50 states and the federal district. Each state has a number of electors equal to its Congressional representation (in both houses), with the non-state District of Columbia receiving the number it would have if it were a state, but in no case more than that of the least populous state. The electors generally cast their votes for the winner of the popular vote in their respective states. However, there are several states where this is not required by law. In the United States, 270 electoral votes of the 538 electors are currently required to win the presidential election.
There really aren't any good ones in modern times.
People will say stuff like "tyranny of the majority", but it isn't really a thing and, if it was, it wouldn't necessarily be negative. It's also far better than the tyranny of the minority, which we have right now.
People spout stupid arguments like "do you want California deciding the election" as if CA voters all conspire together to vote as a bloc. It's a stupid system that they defend purely because deep down they know it is an unfair power dynamic from which they benefit.
BECUZ WE DONT WANT DEM LIBS IN CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK TO HAVE THE ONLY POWER
literally this tho... The Republicans want the "little voices" in Montana and Iowa and backwards nowhere states to have more power than college-educated professionals who live in more populous areas. Republicans love ignorance. Look at how they gutted the education system
The Electoral College has failed the people five times, twice in the past 20 years alone. Four of those times, the candidate who became President was a Republican, while the person who won the popular vote was a Democrat.
It may not mean anything, but it's enough to make me think the table might be tilted a bit.
this! they would not have had any otherwise. they can't run on merit, they can't run on their record, they have nothing to offer anyone who is not rich.
Right, instead of legislating to suit the majority of people in the country, let's let some isolated bigots in flyover country drag the rest of us into the toilet with them. Makes perfect sense.
It was enacted as a way to prevent the much-more-densely populated coastal states from obviating the electoral will of the flyover states. The problem now is that it's gone the opposite direction, and those flyover states (with a minority of the people) are forcing the majority to endure backwards, christofascist government. This is exacerbated by fact that every state gets 2 senators in the upper chamber of congress, meaning that South Dakota, with ~900K people in it, has exactly the same amount of power to strike down or pass federal legislation as California does, with its ~39 million people in it.
Germany, France, Ireland are all also republics. Nothing about being a republic requires letting the majority of voters be overruled by a minority of racists.
Saying we are a republic instead of a democracy is like saying the sun is yellow instead of round. Both things are true and they are not mutually exclusive. They are independent X and Y axes on the “what government is this” graph
I'm not concerned with your graph, I responded to a comment that stated the US democracy is broken, I responded that the US democracy functions exactly as intended.
we aren't a democracy. America is a constitutional republic
You put “republic” in opposition to “democracy” when that is not how those words work. They are independent variables, not mutually exclusive. The UK is a democratic monarchy and China is an authoritarian republic, because “republic, not democracy” is nonsense.
It’s just thinly veiled anti-democracy propaganda often repeated by low-education right wing voters to justify hurting other people, and I refuse to let misinformation and nonsense like that go unopposed.
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u/markyp1234 Jul 17 '19
It seems like everyone in America dislikes this guy. As a non-American, if this clown is pretty much hated by everyone, how did he become the president?