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Re: Nevada Passes National Popular Vote Bill To Undermine Electoral College 

By: ribit in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (2)
Fri, 24 May 19 12:47 AM | 24 view(s)
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...back when the electoral college was created we were largely an agricultural economy. Most folks lived in the country and the college was created to keep the rural states from telling the city folks how to live their lives. Now we have fewer people living in the country and a bulk of folks living in cities. It works in reverse too. A bunch of hive dwellers in NYC and Lost
Angeles cannot tell folks in flyover country how many and what kind of guns they "need" or can have.




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Re: Nevada Passes National Popular Vote Bill To Undermine Electoral College
By: Beldin in POPE 5
Thu, 23 May 19 5:49 PM 		Msg. 32690 of 62138

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I view this as more of a state's rights issue. As I am sure you are fully aware, the Electoral College was set up ... and rightly so, I do believe ... to put the smaller states on more of an equal footing with the more populous states. It was recognition that the states are vital components of our Constitutional Republic and they each have their own rights in our system, as well - just like the fact that U.S. Senators used to be appointed by state legislators until the advent of the 17th Amendment, which I firmly believe was a BAD mistake.

But, if a state, lawfully through its legislative and executive branches, chooses to dispense with its protections under Article II, Section 1 and allow its citizens' votes to be offset or cancelled by the votes of citizens from other states, then I believe they are at liberty to do so. It is brainlessly stupid to do so, but they can do it. The citizens of that state need to wise up and vote out those state legislators and that governor for exhibiting such a cavalier disregard for their vote. Once the citizens have put rational adults in their place, they can then undo that piece of stupidity.

Of course, this all stems from the fact that moronic libtards (the Pffffarters being prime examples) have absolutely no understanding of and appreciation for our actual form of government. These idiots believe we have a pure democracy where the mob rules (the ultimate expression of this are the violent antifa anarchists) and everything should be decided and implemented at the federal level by the dubious "popular vote." To them, the states do not matter ... but, then again, to them, the inalienable rights of individual Americans do not matter, either. What matters to them is the groupthink of their hive ... Hillary Clinton's village, as it were ... and that everyone should be forced to conform to their wishes. Libtards are budding lil' Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot wanna bes, which is why the Founding Fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they put the 2nd Amendment in The U.S. Constitution.

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