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The post that was quoted here has been removedShame on you for sullying her memory.
@shavixmir saidBull. He's one of the main causes, as well as a symptom. Stop excusing him, or Murdoch, or the Kochs.
He problem is, is that once he’s gone the problem will remain. He’s a symptom, not a cause.
@moonbus saidWe can solve this in one stroke by eliminating the Electoral College.
The great American experiment in self-government may yet fail. The events of the past four years demonstrated how fragile democracy is, how easy it is for one determined demagogue and his 'facilitators' to corrupt and damage it. As A.N. Whitehead once observed, great advances in civilisation all but wreck the nations in which they occur.
@shavixmir saidThey may be timid, but they're better armed.
Oh, the yanks are crazy, but they’re very timid compared to the salivating, paranoid hatred of brexiteers.
@biffo-konker saidSounds like the US alt-right.
What a load of old cobblers.
Brexit was driven by lies and disinformation over many years by the Telegraph,Daily Mail and others.
@suzianne saidYes, but . . . that would require a constitutional amendment. Republicans would lose big time if America were to switch to a straightforward one-voter-one-vote, simple-majority system, for the obvious reason that there are fewer of them. Therefore, Republicans would scuttle any attempt to dissolve the EC.
We can solve this in one stroke by eliminating the Electoral College.
@moonbus saidStates-rights idiots would also frame it as Democrats trying to stifle smaller states' free speech. One person, one vote. It's that simple, but not after Republicans get ahold of it.
Yes, but . . . that would require a constitutional amendment. Republicans would lose big time if America were to switch to a straightforward one-voter-one-vote, simple-majority system, for the obvious reason that there are fewer of them. Therefore, Republicans would scuttle any attempt to dissolve the EC.
@divegeester saidMy catch phrase?
It’s Shav’s catch phrase, I wrote it in Hebrew so people wouldn’t have to read it.