Exactly. Chile is doing amazing. And they are standing on their own two feet and achieving it.

They formed a free trade agreement with Australia back in 2009... As well as other countries and they have seen some great growth.
They wen't from $240 billion GDP + $13,331 GDP per capita to $297 billion GDP + $16,573 GDP per capita in just 7 years, that's a 24% growth over that period, at a time when other countries in the region stagnated or declined.

Trump understands this reality better than anyone else ...

A sovereign nation can not be truly independent if it can't be economically self sufficient ...

Many countries depend on the US because it is the exporting hot spot, Trump knows that the power of prosperity for other countries lies within the United States and I quite like it that he's willing to trade in the happiness of the other nations for his own nation's benefit that he is serving ...

USA is the exporting hot spot?

EU and China are exporting a lot more. USA is just ahead of Germany (with 4x the population of Germany):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports

Yeah, if anything USA is the importing hot spot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_imports

I fucking hate this selfish, short-sighted rhetoric. People that don't understand everyone could be off better if everyone could agree upon helping each other out.

I should have been more specific and said it's an exporting hot spot for "other countries" ... (where they send their products and services too)

Your video just explains why the two party system exists, which is common senes. Has nothign to do with Electoral college.

Anyone who thinks that Electorate system is wrong is not thinking of the bigger picture and thinking simple.

Let's think of something simple that we could probably all relate to. Highschool and extra curicular activites. Lets say there is a arts, balley, football, chess and gardening club that are part of the school activities. They meet once a year to discuss funding for each program. Lets have our 100% democratic way of voting. Okay, so each person in each club gets ONE vote. Problem is, there is 100 football players and only 52 members of all the other clubs combined. Thus the football club gets to unanimously decide every single year what the budget gets put to. 

Now with a electoral system (the democratic republic that we have) we give each group a certain value. Say the arts get 1, balley get 2, chess gets 1, gardening 1 and football 4. Now even if 100% of the football club votes 1 way, they don't have mob rule. the other classes if they all vote the same will outnumber the football club.

That is how our electoral college works and how it should work. It gives teh minority a vote. Without the electoral college we woudl rely on Chicago, New York, La, Houston and a couple other HUGE cities to decide what every single other city, coutny, town, ect in teh entire united states would want. Do you really think that a New Yorker is voting for waht is in the best interest for a farmer in Idaho? Do you really think a LA person is going to be putting someone in office that will be looking out for the small town business owner in Kentuky? 

Look at teh recent ACA that was brought into Law back in 2010 or something. Many times it took HUGE promises of federal money/subsidies/ect before a state would have its congressment be happy. So can we easily see that the same woudl happen. You would have New York or other get huge subsidies for something and screw over Nebraska. But who cares. Nebraska has no vote. All teh vote is in New York and LA and other big cities. THey would pander 100% to them and make likfe easy for them. Minnesota right now is seeing HUGE, I repeat HUGE increases in premiums for health care. Do you tink they might want a voice in the election? But if we go away with the electoral system MN would be completely ignored. Heck even though it has the twin cities, it is still basically a "fly over state" that means not much when it comes to election time. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k&list=PLEcHCTVM79BMISVn4AV5EXSglGDzRgwgG&index=8

Take a quick look at 2:05. It is currently fully possible for a candidate to completely ignore large swaths of the country, as they are not swing states.

What you describe is a problem of Democracy in general; it represents a majority, not all. Coalition governments can help with that (which appear in proportional systems).

A proportional system encourages candidates to please as many people as possible.

I do believe that the opinion of 5 times as many people matters 5 times as much.

I'll get into the specifics later, have to go.

This is good. We Americans have the economic and military power to bully any other nation and Obama was weak and unwilling to use it. In fact most Presidents have been weak and unwilling to subjegate other nations. Trump isnt. He's going to help lots of Americans when he takes jobs and and money away from these countries that are powerless to fight back. Good on him, because its good for all of us Americans.

Well fuck you. Egocentric assholes.