What do we have to do to get our country on the right track?

[otto105]

Boy, you is wayyy off the mark.

I was best taught how to cut cabbage by my Spanish boss. He was good at it. I learned.
I know how to cut Swamp Cabbage, and I bet you don't.
You want a sharp machete. Like I said, I'm a Cracker. That makes you a liar.

Still clapping

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Hilarious

You know the Supreme Court has ruled on it right.

Interpreting the Constitution as Giving It the Right to Interpret the Constitution Is Illogical


SCROTUS decisions are non-binding opinions. Judicial Review had nothing to do with Marbury's case against Madison, so it was obiter dictum.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

He’s following this one since it was created for him.

Tell us the parts you dislike most about Project 25

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

If no one knows where we got off track, how do you expect or hope to get on the right track?

Quantrill

If You've Heard of Somebody, Don't Listen to Him

We can be sure that it won't be anything any hired Influencer would suggest.

 

[Mr Natural]

How are we off the track?

What are you being denied?

What is it you want to do but can’t?

 

[Papageorgio]

The attacker was radicalized by the hateful right.

We should be declaring any site he visited domestic terrorism, right.

Just like the left hate radicalized Kirk’s killer, no shortage of hate on either side. The lefts hate has been on display for the last week now.

We all just keep using the ante.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Revival is what America needs. A large scale of turning back to God.
Charlie Kirk knew. Part of why they killed him.

Rome Fell Because of Escapist Christianity

 

[rightwinger]

1 Get rid of Trump
2. Reverse all his policies
3 Apologize to the world for electing Trump

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You didn’t celebrate the patriots who killed brown folks?

Too Late for Laws Alone to Protect the Nation

At the Halls of Montezuma. But Montezuma got his revenge when we refused to end this invasion by any means that worked quickly and finally.

Our descendants will piss on our graves, because urine is yellow and sounds like "You Ran!"

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

An idiot engaged in a riot at our capitol.

Trashing a Junkyard

Most American are alienated by the government. Only Statists think it is sacred and inviolable.

 

[The Duke]

Rome Fell Because of Escapist Christianity

America has been great because of Christianity.
I'll take my prayers and doings over anything you have to offer, ever.
I already had 15 lives. Like the opposite of Final Destination, OK?
The odds have not been in my favor but I still come up winning. Not of my own doing.
I am intelligent enough to recognize that.
God made this world, the laws it works according to, and everything in it.
God is good.

 

[ElmerMudd]

Anyone still on the left is definitely Anti-American. It's over for them, now to work on the corrupt RINOs.

More people feel MAGA is the most anti-American group to have power in the USA.

 

[ElmerMudd]

The problem with this is, the left thinks we don’t have the right to exist nor do we have rights, they have proven time and time again they just won’t stop, so no dice.

Who is "we".

 

[The Duke]

More people feel MAGA is the most anti-American group to have power in the USA.

Is that so?
Well, I don't believe you.
Democrats are toast, goober. They have overplayed their hand and are fucked.
That's reality. We're going to try to make America better for future people, and you can like it or not or FOAD.
Your inane ramblings are taken for what they are these days, just that.

 

[ElmerMudd]

Is that so?
Well, I don't believe you.
Democrats are toast, goober. They have overplayed their hand and are fucked.
That's reality. We're going to try to make America better for future people, and you can like it or not or FOAD.
Your inane ramblings are taken for what they are these days, just that.

Mark Twain said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience".

 

[frigidweirdo]

I need a translator to comprehend your post.
A 3rd party vote is wasted with or without FPTP, whatever that is
No clue what that last sentence says.

Well, if you knew anything about PR then you'd be more knowledgeable and you'd be able to understand.

Let me explain, but I guess I'm going to have to do this quite simply, so I'll use the German federal elections because they use FPTP and PR on the same day at the same time.

2017 German federal election - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This is the 2017 election.

The CDU/CSU got 37.27% of the vote with FPTP. They got 231 seats out of 299 seats available. Which is 77.25% of the seats.

The SPD got 24.64% of the votes and 59 seats, or 19.7%.

The AfD got 12.64% of the vote and 3 seats, or 1%

The FDP got 7% and zero seats, or 0%

The Left got 8.55% of the vote and 5 seats, 1.64%

The Greens got 8.01% of the vote and 1 seat, or 0.33%

So, The CDU/CSU got nearly three times the number of seats they should have had.
The SPD got 5% less, the AFD got 11% less, the FDP got nothing, even though 7% of the country gave them votes. The Left and the Greens also lost out.

With PR it was totally different.

The CDU/CSU got 32.93% of the vote. They lost more than 4% of the vote. Meaning that on the same day, at the same time with the same voters, 4% of people, meaning about 203,000 people, decided to change their vote.

FPTP forced them to vote for a larger party, when really they wanted to vote for someone else.

The CDU/CSU ended up with 246 seats out of 709. That's 34.7% of the seats.

The other parties all did better because the electoral system says that whatever your vote is, your seat allocation is going to be similar to that.

With FPTP a third party vote is wasted because only the two main parties are going to have a say most of the time.

With PR it's totally different.

The FDP, a total waste of a vote with FPTP, got 10.75% of the vote, up from 7%, so clearly 3.75% of the electorate thought it wasn't a wasted vote with PR when it was with FPTP, and they got 80 seats.

After the results came in Angela Merkel tried to form a "Jamaica coalition", which is CDU/CSU, FDP and Greens, it didn't work out, so it went for a "grand coalition" of the CDU/CSU.

However you still get represented in parliament, government has to be more conscious of the people.

The biggest difference is that in 2015 in the UK (with FPTP) UKIP got 12.6% of the vote and one seat, the AfD in 2017 in Germany (with PR) got 12.6% of the vote and 94 seats.

So, the CDU/CSU were punished and had to change their attitude.

In the UK the Tories didn't feel that much heat, except that in some seats they lost MPs (but still won the election).

PR allows people to punish. FPTP doesn't.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

America has been great because of Christianity.
I'll take my prayers and doings over anything you have to offer, ever.
I already had 15 lives. Like the opposite of Final Destination, OK?
The odds have not been in my favor but I still come up winning. Not of my own doing.
I am intelligent enough to recognize that.
God made this world, the laws it works according to, and everything in it.
God is good.

Yes if you are white, Christianity has done nothing for black folks.

 

[scruffy]

Yes if you are white, Christianity has done nothing for black folks.

Oh. You mean like the Rev King.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Oh. You mean like the Rev King.

Well history proves that is incorrect.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

America has been great because of Christianity.
I'll take my prayers and doings over anything you have to offer, ever.
I already had 15 lives. Like the opposite of Final Destination, OK?
The odds have not been in my favor but I still come up winning. Not of my own doing.
I am intelligent enough to recognize that.
God made this world, the laws it works according to, and everything in it.
God is good.

God Is a Santa Claus for Adults

You feel you're better than I am only because you imagine a supernatural power is on your side and not on mine. I don't blame God for not achieving my goals; I blame real powers for playing God and playing both me and you.