Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws
by kevlar128 on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:32AM
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The EC exists for a reason and has functioned quite well.
Getting 38 states to approve eliminating it is highly unlikely.
Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws
by tathougies on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:03PM
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> Why would you think they don't? I'll admit this is a massive sweeping generalisation, but as a rule, urban voters tend to swing left and that mostly correlates with environmental advocacy.
This is ridiculous. The correlation of left-leaning and environmental advocacy is relatively new. Or rather, conservatives ignoring conservation is a rather new thing. Many of the first conservationists, and the reason we have things like national parks, and such were rural conservatives.
Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws
by dang on Friday June 05, 2020 @03:38AM
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Would you please stop posting to HN in the flamewar style and stop using this site for ideological battle? You've been doing these things a lot and they're against the site guidelines.
Re:Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws
by tathougies on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:23PM
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Sure... will you please delete my account? I'm no longer interested in being around here much anyway.
Why would you think they don't? I'll admit this is a massive sweeping generalisation, but as a rule, urban voters tend to swing left and that mostly correlates with environmental advocacy.
But more generally... >> abolishing the Electoral College will not fix anything
Yeah, it will. For a start, it will fix the problem of the Electoral College existing.
It's an inherently undemocratic institution that is completely unnecessary in the 21st century.
And that's not a partisan position (I live in NZ so I really don't have skin in the game here). If you're a democrat living in Texas or a republican living in California, you may as well not vote in presidential elections.
You could move the presidential election to a Single Transferable Vote system and then you might actually get viable 3rd party candidates as people wouldn't have to worry about "wasting their vote".