The popular vote.

[Tarheel Baptist]

http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/its-official-clintons-popular-vote-win-came-entirely-from-california/

 

[Smellin Coffee]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

 

[Tatterdemalion]

North and South California coming soon?

 

[Smellin Coffee]

"Thank God for the Electoral College to strengthen the White vote of this country! Their minority number of individual votes saved us from the votes of those Latinos and Blacks!"

(sarcasm)

So yes, there IS such a thing as white privilege.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

 

[biscuit1953]

Voter fraud is rampant among Democrats especially in California.  With the drivers licence automatic registration laws in California hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants are signed up to vote with no one checking on it.  Here is a Democrat who tells the truth about what goes on with lax voter ID laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suUJP3C8jgs

 

[Smellin Coffee]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

Providing the opportunity to vote is not the same thing as giving each person's vote the same amount of influence.

White privilege rules! YAY!

 

[Ransom]

Assuming for the sake of argument that "white privilege" exists, then a) I was born with it, and b) therefore there's no reason to be ashamed of it or try to hide it.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

Providing the opportunity to vote is not the same thing as giving each person's vote the same amount of influence.

White privilege rules! YAY!

Flights departing daily to la la lands of liberalism.
Flotillas departing daily in the other direction...to escape your utopia.
And, you have NO argument against this. It is real life as opposed to the liberal drivel you parrot!

 

[Smellin Coffee]

Assuming for the sake of argument that "white privilege" exists, then a) I was born with it, and b) therefore there's no reason to be ashamed of it or try to hide it.

And I thank you for your honesty.

 

[Smellin Coffee]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

Providing the opportunity to vote is not the same thing as giving each person's vote the same amount of influence.

White privilege rules! YAY!

Flights departing daily to la la lands of liberalism.
Flotillas departing daily in the other direction...to escape your utopia.
And, you have NO argument against this. It is real life as opposed to the liberal drivel you parrot!

In essence, the "3/5 slave vote" is still in effect but rather than applying to slaves, it is being applied to citizens of metropolitan areas, specifically targeting the poor which includes minorities.

You have yet to address the issue: please explain to me why the vote of one individual citizen should be more influential than the vote of another.

 

[Jim Jones]

Trump won 2,600 counties, Clinton won 500.

Exactly why the tyranny of the majority will not reign in the US.

 

[Smellin Coffee]

Trump won 2,600 counties, Clinton won 500.

Exactly why the tyranny of the majority will not reign in the US.

Interesting. The principle of the "tyranny of the majority" originated in fear that religious regulation within government would cause discrimination against minorities.

Our 4th President, Father of the Constitution and architect of the Bill of Rights, may have foreseen the current push by a religious minority to use majoritarian devices in Congress to tyrannize the rest of the country. He must have feared it when he wrote Thomas Jefferson in France from the Continental Congress on October 24, 1787. After recognizing the need for a majority in routine votes, he asked when "a majority... united by a common interest or a passion cannot be constrained from oppressing the minority, what remedy can be found...?"

He went on to express his hope that the newly forming nation would be large enough, with enough "different interests and parties... that no common interest or passion will be likely to unite a majority of the whole number in an unjust pursuit." In the areas of civil and religious rights, he predicted, "If [one] sect form a majority and have the power, other sects will be sure to be depressed." This fear grew out of the American colonies' experience with 18th-century European nations where religion and state were synonymous.

Tyranny Of A Majority - A James Madison View

So pray tell, what is the "common interest or passion" uniting those who live in Metropolitan areas which should result in reducing the power of their vote? Gay rights? Minority rights? Fighting against abusive cops? Equal treatment of women? Seems Madison's fear is taking place; the religious are pushing their agenda so as to restrict minorities, using discrimination as a power ploy.

Seems to me the "tyranny of the majority" as Madison described is about the power of like interest, not simply population.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

Providing the opportunity to vote is not the same thing as giving each person's vote the same amount of influence.

White privilege rules! YAY!

Flights departing daily to la la lands of liberalism.
Flotillas departing daily in the other direction...to escape your utopia.
And, you have NO argument against this. It is real life as opposed to the liberal drivel you parrot!

In essence, the "3/5 slave vote" is still in effect but rather than applying to slaves, it is being applied to citizens of metropolitan areas, specifically targeting the poor which includes minorities.

You have yet to address the issue: please explain to me why the vote of one individual citizen should be more influential than the vote of another.

Because our constitution says it is 'so' because the founders were smarter than you and today's liberal socialist democrats.
Have you booked a flight to one of the fair and equitable countries that provide what you so long for?
Flights and flotillas depart daily....

 

[Smellin Coffee]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

Providing the opportunity to vote is not the same thing as giving each person's vote the same amount of influence.

White privilege rules! YAY!

Flights departing daily to la la lands of liberalism.
Flotillas departing daily in the other direction...to escape your utopia.
And, you have NO argument against this. It is real life as opposed to the liberal drivel you parrot!

In essence, the "3/5 slave vote" is still in effect but rather than applying to slaves, it is being applied to citizens of metropolitan areas, specifically targeting the poor which includes minorities.

You have yet to address the issue: please explain to me why the vote of one individual citizen should be more influential than the vote of another.

Because our constitution says it is 'so' because the founders were smarter than you and today's liberal socialist democrats.
Have you booked a flight to one of the fair and equitable countries that provide what you so long for?
Flights and flotillas depart daily....

So you are for slavery. After all, the founders were smarter and even owned slaves themselves. They believed certain minorities weren't worthy to be allowed the freedoms of the Constitution and should not be fit for citizenship, making hypocrites of the signers of the Declaration of Independence where "all men are created equal". Got it.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

So the single vote from the California resident should be less powerful than the single vote from an Idaho resident?

So much for an attempt at equality...

We are a constitutional republic, providing equal opportunity.
You, once again, long for Cuba or Venezuela.
Flights are departing daily...rafts and flotillas seeking escape from your longed for equality also depart every day. 

Providing the opportunity to vote is not the same thing as giving each person's vote the same amount of influence.

White privilege rules! YAY!

Flights departing daily to la la lands of liberalism.
Flotillas departing daily in the other direction...to escape your utopia.
And, you have NO argument against this. It is real life as opposed to the liberal drivel you parrot!

In essence, the "3/5 slave vote" is still in effect but rather than applying to slaves, it is being applied to citizens of metropolitan areas, specifically targeting the poor which includes minorities.

You have yet to address the issue: please explain to me why the vote of one individual citizen should be more influential than the vote of another.

Because our constitution says it is 'so' because the founders were smarter than you and today's liberal socialist democrats.
Have you booked a flight to one of the fair and equitable countries that provide what you so long for?
Flights and flotillas depart daily....

So you are for slavery. After all, the founders were smarter and even owned slaves themselves. They believed certain minorities weren't worthy to be allowed the freedoms of the Constitution and should not be fit for citizenship, making hypocrites of the signers of the Declaration of Independence where "all men are created equal". Got it.

You are consistent at least even if you are consistently misinformed.
The 'founding fathers' were not monolithic and many of them were a part of the abolitionist movement. Again, you and those you parrot and paste have no answer to the practical, historic and consistent failure of the so called equality you so sincerely espouse from the bottom of your bleeding heart.

Catch a plane...and save yourself the daily grief of living in a free, capitalist, constitutional republic! One that defeated your preferred and professed political ideology from the White House (Trump won) to congress, to the Senate, to governors mansions, to state legislatures. But on the bright side, you won California in a landslide.

Planes to Cuba and Venezuela leave daily...and the flotillas fleeing utopia do as well. 

 

[Twisted]

Planes to Cuba ... leave daily...

Is that true?  If so, that's one good thing Obama did.

We could start a GoFundMe page for Smellin'.

 

[biscuit1953]

Merry Christmas Smellin. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW85ZcswiqM

 

[FSSL]

Now the Electoral College is racist? What a lark! It put Obama in twice and Hillary's husband in twice. Until Trump won, Hillary was excited about having them "in the bag."

The "progressives" keep racism alive. It's an old, worn out tactic that undermines the suffering of previous generations.

I can't wait until Monday when this will be over


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[Smellin Coffee]

You are consistent at least even if you are consistently misinformed.
The 'founding fathers' were not monolithic and many of them were a part of the abolitionist movement.

And yet, many weren't. Not to mention, many (most?) believed women should not have the right to vote either. Their own wives! So don't give me this crap that they were all about "freedom" while literally discriminating against much of the population; those who were not white males. They had some good insights, no doubt about it. But there were many who refused to allow freedoms of others while signing off they did. They created the history for many of the problems we are experiencing today. They should be as responsible for the bad parts of their governing ideas as much as credited for the good parts.