Thoughts On Current Wave Of Protest

[Underhill]

America is not a democracy (or rather a pure one). A pure democracy has little regard for the fundamental rights which can easily change at the whim of the majority. If people truly understood what a pure democracy meant, very few would support it. That is why no country (or a very small number) practices pure democracy today. Most countries (like Australia and UK) have representative systems which work in a very similar way to the electoral college. This is to ensure that the government (rather the executive body) protects the interests of the population and the states/constituents.

Nobody is saying we should have a pure democracy. People keep trying to equate a direct vote in an election with doing away with representative government. The two are not one in the same.

We can allow the people to directly choose the presidency with no ill effect and without changing the representative nature of our government (ie congress).

What we have now simply allows for the 2 sides to rig the game. That's why I've always laughed when Trump talks about a rigged election. Republicans have been hard at work rigging the system for decades with gerrymandering and eliminating polling places in convenient places for minorities. (and yes, Democrats also gerrymander but republicans have been much more effective at doing it). This is a large part of why Trump won states like PA, where redistricting allowed the right to pack democrats in a small number of districts.

http://www.redistrictingmajorityproject.com/

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/ratfcked-the-influence-of-redistricting

 

[ShivaFan]

George Soros pays less than minimum wage.

KGW compiled a list of the 112 people arrested by the Portland Police Bureau during recent protests. Only 25 of those arrested actually voted in the recent Presidential election and most of the protesters weren't even registered to vote in Oregon.

To the other 87 "protesters" who didn't bother to vote, if you live in such a closet full of your paranoid hate and blaming others for being a loser and only climb out from under your drug induced rock and hideaway from the real world to throw a tantrum on the less than minimum wage of George Soros only if accompanied by ten other moonbeams and didn't even bother to vote because you overslept on election day or God knows what you were doing that 90 percent of the rest of us do not care, then you only should blame yourself for losing because you cannot come to terms with the real world to ever be anything more than a bug.

Meanwhile the real populists are taking over the world - Populism Taking Over the World while a bug takes over a fire hydrant frequented by the dogs in the neighborhood and that isn't fair. That fire hydrant belongs to the dog, not the bug.

 

[Notanumber]

I wonder if those protestors were interviewed would they have similar opinions about HRC to those interviewed in this video.