Re:Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order
by zigzigzag on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:38AM
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That takes you down the road of arguing the USA isn't a democracy, which is a fine semantic argument of little relevance to current events.
If this starts a movement to abolish the electoral college, great, but the core problem here isn't a few million votes. Even with a different system Trump could still have won. The core problem is that such a guy was able to even get close to the White House and the root cause is a dire failure of all the other politicians to address the concerns he addressed.
Re:Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order
by juvinious on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:25AM
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So you are saying we are running a republic of representative government? And yet these are the rules we play by and have always played by and I disagree this instance and so I need to virtue signal that "muh people's voice bruh."
It's quite simple, it's not democratic in the sense that the majority of the population voted for another candidate, but in the end Trump got elected.
Final ballot count:
Hilary: 65,844,610 votes
Trump: 62,979,636 votes
Now, I understand these are the electoral rules in the USA and I'm not saying Trump won unfairly, but he certainly didn't win democratically since the majority of voters didn't want him there.