2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

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12. Indeed. Why even hold an election in the first place, if

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 03:50 PM

Dec 2016

electors can choose someone who did not even run? Either we have a Constitutional Republic or we do not. Either we elect those who represent us or we do not. We do not have a system where the President is chosen by a few hundred people. That is not how it was envisioned, and I wouldn't stand for it for an instant.

Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. They were the candidates. Not enough Democrats in enough states voted for Hillary Clinton. In our system, that means she lost. More's the pity. We failed to elect her. Her loss is down to us, the voters. We failed.

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We had an election. There was a candidate for both major parties. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2016 OP

Agree. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #1

I don't know. MineralMan Dec 2016 #5

Are they talking about that? Txbluedog Dec 2016 #2

Not they. We. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

That's BS Txbluedog Dec 2016 #6

Well, that will probably be the outcome. MineralMan Dec 2016 #8

If we want to continue to call ourselves a democracy Txbluedog Dec 2016 #11

Well, that was the result of our partial democracy, anyhow. MineralMan Dec 2016 #13

I agree Txbluedog Dec 2016 #17

If, and that's a big IF, we could turn out the same MineralMan Dec 2016 #18

Why didn't people pull up their Ayn Rand bootstraps and sign onto her campaign? jake335544 Dec 2016 #19

god, I just looked at it !! pangaia Dec 2016 #10

That is lower than low that you would sneaky post a link to someone's thread just to shame them mtnsnake Dec 2016 #14

I did post in that thread. Linking to other threads on MineralMan Dec 2016 #15

Normal? Really? How would you like it if someone did that to you? mtnsnake Dec 2016 #20

People have linked to posts of mine many, many times. MineralMan Dec 2016 #21

No, it's just coming up occasionally in various fantasies Amishman Dec 2016 #4

:( SonofaFidel Dec 2016 #16

I agree. The precedent it would set would be disastrous for Democrats as well. jalan48 Dec 2016 #7

The precedent it would set is... Txbluedog Dec 2016 #9

Indeed. Why even hold an election in the first place, if MineralMan Dec 2016 #12