The Sage of Main Street
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Shallow Thinking of Lazy Americans Who Receive All Their Thoughts From Those Floating Above ThemThese Dishonest Sneaks Waited Until hillary Won the PV Before They Started Criticizing the EVAmerica is not the first country to seemingly reject the hard work of democracy for the brutal simplicity of authoritarianism.Agreed. I just didn't think an authoritarian could be elected............and then supported..............once he/she began to behave this way.All the most brutal leaders you ever heard of had die hard supporters till the end. Some humans seem to be unable to function without some sort of king or generalissimo.
Back in Manifest Destiny times, the majority of Americans didn't want to be cooped up in the crowded states, so they chose to have more electoral power going to the states they might move to. The PV is no more democratic than giving each state one electoral vote.
There was a distinct possibility that a candidate like Trump could have won the popular vote and lost the election. The pro pols could see him winning in landslides where he was popular and barely losing in the other states. They knew their despicable nag could never win many landslides.
There is no PV to win, or lose.
hillary didn't win the PV anyway; she got less than 50% of the vote. Not only that, but the two candidates on the Left got fewer popular votes than the four candidates on the Right.