Barozi said:
Jon-Erich said:
Trump is the legitimate President. He got more electoral votes than Clinton. The popular vote doesn't matter. This is because he actually campaigned in the areas where he knew he needed to win. Hillary Clinton on the other hand ran a terrible campaign. She didn't campaign where she needed to. She stuck mostly to the left-leaning costal cities. She was stupid enough to actually believe the polls even though they've been terribly wrong in the past. She called roughly half of the voting population deplorable. You know, the people she needed votes from. She pretty much controlled the DNC and cheated and was later exposed for it. She also had a lot of baggage on her when she ran because of all the scandals that have been building up over the years. It also doesn't help that a lot of friends and foes who have crossed her path over the years have ended up dead. Now she has to live with the embarrassment that her dumb ass let Donald Trump win.
Also, the person who posted before you was wrong. George W. Bush won the popular vote when he ran for re-election in 2004. That also goes to show how badly John Kerry sucked. Bush was not a popular President in '04 and yet the other guy made him look good.
|
We know that the popular vote doesn't matter for the US presidential election, but you really need to ask yourself if that's a very democratic system.
Democracy means that all the power comes from its people and when you have a president that has less legitimacy because there were less people voting for said person, that's really questionable.
And I didn't even start the fact that you cannot even directly vote for a specific candidate, even though the ballot says otherwise...
|
The problem is if you allow more direct democracy, then New York, California and Texas would always decide the election while states like Wyoming, Montana and others would effectively have no real representation. How is that fair? The truth is no matter how you slice it, democracy isn't really fair at all since the majority will always dictate their will to the minority. This is why America's Founders saw democracy as a necessary evil rather than an actual system that government should be based on. By providing a bill of rights and being more focused on liberty, it serves as a measure to counter democracy. Democracy is only there because there is no other effective way to put leaders into office without having a formal dictatorship. Besides, since the US adopted it's current constitution in 1787, there have only been five elections where the President-elect did not get the majority of the vote so it isn't like it happens all the time.
