2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Ok. The election was stolen. We know that now. Time to stop blaming Hillary or Bernie. [View all]
The theft was carefully calculated to steal less than one hundred thousand votes in key states that would shift the Electoral College to Trump.
Putin, Comey, voter suppression, the complicit media, the stay-homers and never-hillary voters all played a part and it worked because of an antiquated relic from the time when this country enslaved people. It's called the Electoral College.
WE NEED TO CAMPAIGN LOUDLY TO GET RID OF IT SO THAT THE CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY WHO GETS THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTES WINS EVERY TIME.
For those not familiar with it's history, the Electoral College was a compromise arrived at to keep southern, slave holding states from leaving the union. A deal was struck between the slave holding states and the more populous northern states that they could count their enslaved black people to give them more electoral votes, but they would only be counted as 3/5s of a man.
Got that, everyone? Got that dehumanization of black people back then, got that bow to white supremacy that we are still selecting our president by to this day?
No matter what happens on Monday it needs to go. Let's all make a sustained, concerted push to get rid of this relic that keeps harming out country by putting unqualified, loser-of-the-popular- vote repugs in office who promptly fu_k up on the world and national stage with their wars and economy-wrecking policys that favor the rich but cost us jobs and lost homes.
Call and email your senators and representatives and urge them to get rid of this lasting piece of slavery because that is exactly what it is.