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Originally posted by foxaylove
Some of you sound so ignorant. The electoral college system, is not a friend of democracy. The people voted for Hillary, but the system voted for Trump. The ones condemning us for protesting and speaking out, you need to look back in American History. Had we not protested for women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, and such, we would still be slaves. We would still be women who are to be seen, not heard, much less allowed to vote. We would still be a country where the LGTBQ aren't accepted as a functioning member of society and in someways, that's still true today, and that is damn sad.
Activism is what makes America so great. It's the truest form of how we directly impact change. By doing this, it sends a message to Trump. His plans that are outlined in his first 100 days in office, they won't fly with the majority of Americans. Send direct messages of what we want. If he decides to ignore us, then he'll experience no peace in the next 4 years.
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The EC system is ridiculously outdated and has no place in a modern democratic process. Our technology enables us to accurately count and log every citizens individual vote as equal votes instead of giving more or less weight to certain voters according to where they live.
The fact that we have managed to have TWO elections out of the last the five end in presidents essentially being appointed by the EC after losing the popular vote among citizens is insane. It's only happened a total of
five times in in our nation's history; prior to 2000, hadn't happened since
1888. This is a problem; it's dead wrong and it's infuriating, yet people are told just sit down, shut up and respect the process.