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...And to think this guy has half the vote. What a place we live in. I wish we cared more about education. If people were smarter, we wouldn't be in this situation.
If 20 or more years ago, a writer wanted to write a book about USA sliding to religious dictatorship or fascism, they would create this extremely clever, very charismatic machiavellian genius.
Instead, we have a bumbling buffoon who probably can't tie his shoes in the morning, and half the people seem to worship him like a god.
Half the electoral college vote. Still maddening but let’s not forget that a shitty election system is the only thing keeping the Republicans in power now
If half the people weren't voting for him, the EC wouldn't be an issue.
Depends how loose your definition of half is, I guess. Trump got 46.8% of the popular vote in 2020 vs Biden’s 51.3%.
2016: Trump 41.1% (still won) vs Clinton 48.2%. 2012: Obama 51.1% (winner) vs Romney 47.2%. 2008: Obama 52.9% (winner) vs McCain 45.7%. 2004: Bush 50.7% (winner) vs Kerry 48.3%. 2000: Bush 47.9% (still won) vs Gore 48.4%. 1996: Clinton 49.2% (winner) vs Dole 40.7% vs Perot 8.4%. 1992: Clinton 43% (winner) vs Bush 37.4% vs Perot 18.9%. 1988: Bush 53.4% (winner) vs Dukakis 45.6%. And that's as far as I could be bothered to go back.
With the exception of Bush in 2004, every Republican president since 1988 won only because of the electoral college. See the problem?
It is still bonkers that 40% of the people vote for him. No matter how bad first past the post voting, electoral collage or party polarization is, if you can convince 40% of the people to vote for this man as president, that's a problem with the voter base, not the EC.
I'm aware of the history. The EC should go. I also don't need to miss the context of the discussion to make that point.
Going by current polling, the two are statistically tied, with a few percentage points still going to RFK Jr and some undecideds. GP is correct to say "this guy has a half the vote", and this would be true with or without the EC. If we had a population that wasn't bending over backwards to justify sending a demented narcissist into the White House, the EC would not even be close to an issue this election.
That's why Republicans have waged a war on education for decades.
Misogyny and racism are hella strong drugs
If people were smarter you wouldn’t have Marijuana classified as schedule 1 and you would actually have a healthcare and not some for profit private insurance scam instead.
Unfortunately you can't assume being smarter will automatically equate to empathy.
Remember that half is asleep since they can't stand anyone or anything woke.
Wasn't that long ago that we had two candidates in evident cognitive decline, and we still would except for these embarrassing incidents.