Silly boy, you think the rich actually have to obey the law?
Yep, they do.......well, unless you are the Speaker of the House that wants your hair done. By your own admission, you made this entire story up. Fred didn't buy any chips. Fred didn't break any laws. Your story doesn't even make sense because chips have no value until the casino gives it value by backing it with cash. Until that time, they are virtual worthless pieces of plastic.
The EC does nothing of the sort. So let's take you example. The folks in SD didn't want the Keystone Pipeline, mostly because if it ruptures, their water table will be screwed. But the OIL COMPANIES wanted it.. and we know Trump works for the oil companies.
Trump risked losing the EC votes in states that were against the pipeline. It's something he had to consider, and probably one of the reasons he moved on that early in his term; hoping people will cool off by the next election.
South Dakota has less than 885,000 people in the entire state. That's one-eight of the population of NYC; almost one-third of the population of your city. Assuming less than half of that population in SD are active voters, that's only 400,000 votes. It wouldn't even be worth worrying about. However because we have the EC, it had to be something Trump considered before making his decision.
Yes, it might. But the real problem is, as long as the Koch Brothers can buy our elections, what the people need is besides the point. You live in a city where the rivers catch on fire because the One Percent dumped so much toxic shit in there.
No, that was over a half-century ago when we had the theory that chemicals could dissipate and virtually disappear due to the small amount of chemicals vs the huge body of water the great lakes has. It was a flawed theory, and when discovered, we moved to stop dumping those chemicals there.
Back to the point, the President does make decisions in regards to land, so land is something that needs representation whether ten thousand people live on that land or ten million.
A level playing field is one person, one vote. It's the way we pick every other office in the country.
Again, our Congress is designed with two bodies: the Senate and the House. Both bodies are used in creating laws, taxes, fines, and spending. One body represents the population, and the other body represents equal representation regardless of the amount of people. So in a sense, our law creators have an EC sort of speak.
Our Governors are elected through popular vote, however our governors only govern the state, not the rest of the country. Same with lesser offices like Mayors and Council.
Popular vote would give the few most populated states the ability to choose our President for the rest of the country. Our founders didn't want that because it would be unfair to most of the other states in the country. So they created the EC to help balance that inequity out. That's why we have it.
