• meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Hi. I’m not American. But we all understand Trump’s threats. Or the inherent threat he poses. I think I speak for the world.

    I’m more worried about a system that let someone like that get this far!

    • scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I swear I remember my social studies teacher saying one reason for the electoral college is to prevent someone like Trump. The founding fathers didn’t want to trust the popular vote in case the masses got duped. With the polarization of the parties there’s little chance of voting for the other person happening. There are some state laws that force them to vote for their candidate but I’m not sure how many states have the faithless electors clause.

      Of course we got Trump because of the electoral college he lost the popular vote.

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        1 year ago

        I have serious concerns about the electoral college. With this upcoming election being the way it is… it’s really hard to say which they’ll vote. It’s really demoralizing to know that even if Biden wins the popular vote they can just elect trump anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I have no doubt that was the original idea. But now it just filters out all but 2 candidates that are paid for by big business and other outside investors. All of them foaming at the mouth to get whatever law makes them another billion eradicated or passed.

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      1 year ago

      Speaking as an American: Our system lets people take the office despite not winning the popular vote. That’s just straight-up systemic corruption.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve always said Trump’s not the hero we need but the villain we deserve. We did this to ourselves, with citizens united, 24 hr “news”, straight up stupidity, and a just really strange sort of egotrip. Conversely my boy Bernie is the hero we needed, for the same reasons.

      As to that egotrip. I don’t think losing the Soviet Union was good for us. We need someone to lean into. Those goat spooning terrorist assholes just didn’t cut it adversary wise. China is too foreign to make a truly good enemy. Now we’re just vs. ourselves with predictable outcomes. If only there were a better way.