At the end of the last World War it wasn’t the Allied forces who did Mussolini in.
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The aspect ratios of these photos are different, so they don’t look similar.
Can someone fix it? Also, the colours. And mirror flip because hair.
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Hey murderous asshole, why the long face?
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Masha Gessen’s Rule 1: Believe the Autocrat. He means what he says.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/
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The key aspect there is “in Canada”: whatever effective solutions are being proposed in the U.S., national standards for a federal election have to be the starting point.
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Won’t. And can’t.
Too: Defending fascists is part of Donald’s personal heritage. Despite his father, Fred, thinking Fred thinking Donald was an idiot, recognizing that Donald was incapable of managing a business and needed his daddy to save his ass.
Sad!
Republican race-baiting started before Reagan. Take Nixon’s Southern ‘Strategy’ for example.
However, Reagan’s reign IS when the Democrats stopped being anything other than Republicans-lite.
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It’s actually kind of amazing to me that with so much vocal voter apathy, the difficulty in taking time off work to vote (which most employers are cool about, but still), and reports of voter intimidation to keep them from polls, Hillary still came away with as many votes as Obama, a very respectable popular vote win, and the largest voter turnout since the 70s. That’s not a failed vote, that’s a surprising success.
My worry is that when someone has a huge success at the polls but loses anyway, it sends a clear message that your vote means jack shit and more people just won’t bother in 2020.
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Voter suppression is not evenly distributed across the country.
Clinton had massive turnout in California and New York, and suppressed/depressed turnout across the Confederacy and Midwest. She ran up the score in the safe states, and underperformed in the places that mattered.
By 2020, an American vote is going to be no more useful than a Russian one.
The devolved and partisan nature of electoral administration in the US renders it exceptionally vulnerable to subversion. You don’t need to control the whole system to fuck it; just enough key states to swing the balance.
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Quite true; the folks running Trump’s campaign were quite clever in this regard. He’s obsessed with the popular vote but his campaign couldn’t care less; they knew the electoral swing states were key. They didn’t do anything normal. They didn’t even open campaign HQs in many states, run big ads, etc. Between total focus on key states and some seriously sketchy voting-machine incidents that Trump lawyers prevented any investigation into, he won.
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Not to mention a decade-long propaganda job in the Midwest to show that all those refugees that settled out there were terrorists funded by people who include certain people like I dunno Steve Bannon. There have been Ramadas across swing states preaching Jack Chick level lies about Islam since I was in high school.
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That really is what games the whole system unfairly. Even if they allowed the states to split their vote it would be more fair. But at this point, I think it needs to just be replaced.
CGP Grey did the math and you could win an election with 22% of the popular vote. Should be queued up to the relevant part at 4:16
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I have to ask, does anyone recall any Obama or Clinton support rallies or any sort of left winged “save the whales” type thing ending in violence against the right brought on by the left?
Seems to me every time I see something reported about a rally getting violent its always the right physically attacking the left. Maybe there are examples and I just can’t recall?
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Gee, if we didn’t have an electoral college that wouldn’t matter at all! Nope, we gotta, uh, change things to a completely different system because, uh, my values aren’t being represented by the candidates chosen by several levels of primaries and elections.
Maybe your values are trash, and nobody supports them?
Or maybe the electoral college helped elect a candidate who actually lost by three million votes?
Wait, scratch “maybe.” That’s exactly what happened.
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I think what some folks are pointing out is that the Electoral College was designed for a specific purpose – to make sure the votes of 18th-century sparsely-populated rural areas had as much representation as densely-populated urban areas – which is much less of an issue these days. And that since that time, both parties have redrawn districts to gerrymander them all to heck, which is how someone can lose a popular election by a wide margin but win anyway by literally gaming the system. The 2016 election should be a handy guide to adjust things so that one cannot as easily use lawyers and superdelegates to force a win.
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I’m making fun of the constant harping that we need to change from first-past-the-post elections when we have primaries that perform the same function as alternative methods.
The rest of my posts should make it clear what I think of the electoral college and republicans defending nazis.
Yeah, the Dems can finally do it!
“If the Democratic Party wants to seize this moment, it will be bold.”
Oh. Well, it was a nice thought.
Also, we already have an Electoral College workaround: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Has your state signed on? (Mine has. Wash-ing-ton! Wash-ing-ton!)
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This is my favorite method, and the best option; if the government refuses to act in the interests of the people, form another one. No violence, just refuse to interact and work with the fascists. A silent civil war.
