Connecticut To Give Its Electoral College Votes To National Popular Vote Victor

PoliTalker said:
Hello SmarterthanYou,



That is completely wrong. Totally pure government-hating propaganda.

It is ridiculous for us to hate the self-government which we created ourselves.

If we don't like some aspect of the government the thing to do is vote for people who will change it, and advocate for the desired changes.

Anybody taking up arms against our government has about as much chance of prevailing as a candle on the sun. You can try and you can die.

People who talk about overthrowing our government are extremists. They are relegated to fringe groups and will never be taken seriously by enough of the citizens who love America that an American revolution could ever go anywhere. People in the USA are too happy to want to destroy our country. And it is not like any revolution would happen in a vacuum. If we tore our country apart you can bet there would be outside aggressors who would come in to snap up the spoils of whatever they could seize. The whole idea is preposterous and should be forgotten.
Click to expand...

The founders are preposterous and should be forgotten?
 
If we were to overthrow our government, what would we replace it with?

Does anybody here have a better idea than our US Constitution?

Would you re-write it?

What would you say?

How would you set up a better government?

Make Trump President-for-life?

Give him the power to appoint the next president?

Tear the country apart into red States and blue States?

Break up the USA???
 
Hello Threedee,

Threedee said:
The founders are preposterous and should be forgotten?
Click to expand...

No. They didn't want a standing army, so in order to quickly form one if needed to defend the USA, then the citizens should have arms.

The second didn't say 'guns.'

It says 'arms.'

That means under the second, anybody can legally have their own ICBM nukes.

If you don't have your own nuke missiles and some bad guy does then you are going to lose the firefight with him. The 2nd says you can have your own nukes, chemical weapons, MOABs, any arms that exist.

That is why the second is outdated and needs to be re-written.

Why draw the line at assault weapons? The 2nd doesn't mention them.
 
PoliTalker said:
If we were to overthrow our government, what would we replace it with?

Does anybody here have a better idea than our US Constitution?

Would you re-write it?

What would you say?

How would you set up a better government?

Make Trump President-for-life?

Give him the power to appoint the next president?

Tear the country apart into red States and blue States?

Break up the USA???
Click to expand...

your premise is false. the 2nd is about restoring the government, not overthrowing it. therefore there's nothing to replace.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Threedee,



No. They didn't want a standing army, so in order to quickly form one if needed to defend the USA, then the citizens should have arms.

The second didn't say 'guns.'

It says 'arms.'

That means under the second, anybody can legally have their own ICBM nukes.

If you don't have your own nuke missiles and some bad guy does then you are going to lose the firefight with him. The 2nd says you can have your own nukes, chemical weapons, MOABs, any arms that exist.

That is why the second is outdated and needs to be re-written.

Why draw the line at assault weapons? The 2nd doesn't mention them.
Click to expand...

would our own government nuke us? that is the question.
 
Hello SmarterthanYou,

SmarterthanYou said:
would our own government nuke us? that is the question.
Click to expand...

SMH

Don't you get it?

Our government is us. We run our own government. We have the power to change our laws and government policy.

The people in our government are our neighbors, friends and relatives.

If you think you can do a better job you are always free to run for office.
 
the entire republican party is now about hating the government

think of all the years they have spent screaming about how evil Democracy is

remember the meme about "we are NOT a Democracy"


they hate the people having power
 
In 2004 Bush woulda got 169 more electoral votes than the 286 he received and Kerry 169 less had these laws been in effect.
Wow, that woulda been Bush with 455 to Kerry's 82 (I think).
TDS really fucks up liberals' thought processes.
 
evince said:
the entire republican party is now about hating the government

think of all the years they have spent screaming about how evil Democracy is

remember the meme about "we are NOT a Democracy"


they hate the people having power
Click to expand...

We aren't a Democracy. If you weren't such an uneducable NL bitch, you would have learned that by now.
 
aloysious said:
In 2004 Bush woulda got 169 more electoral votes than the 286 he received and Kerry 169 less had these laws been in effect.
Wow, that woulda been Bush with 455 to Kerry's 82 (I think).
TDS really fucks up liberals' thought processes.
Click to expand...

link
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_democracy


Representative democracies[edit]
A representative democracy is an indirect democracy where sovereignty is held by the people's representatives.
A liberal democracy is a representative democracy with protection for individual liberty and property by rule of law.
An illiberal democracy has weak or no limits on the power of the elected representatives to rule as they please.
Types of representative democracy include:
Electoral democracy – type of representative democracy based on election, on electoral vote, as modern occidental or liberal democracies.
Dominant-party system – democratic party system where only one political party can realistically become the government, by itself or in a coalition government.
Parliamentary democracy – democratic system of government where the executive branch of a parliamentary government is typically a cabinet, and headed by a prime minister who is considered the head of government.
Westminster democracy – parliamentary system of government modeled after that of the United Kingdom system.
Presidential democracy – democratic system of government where a head of government is also head of state and leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch.
Jacksonian democracy – a variant of presidential democracy popularized by U.S. President Andrew Jackson which promoted the strength of the executive branch and the Presidency at the expense of Congressional power.
Soviet democracy or Council democracy – form of democracy where the workers of a locality elect recallable representatives into organs of power called soviets (councils.) The local soviets elect the members of regional soviets who go on to elect higher soviets.
Totalitarian democracy – a system of government in which lawfully elected representatives maintain the integrity of a nation state whose citizens, while granted the right to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of the government.
A demarchy has people randomly selected from the citizenry through sortition to either act as general governmental representatives or to make decisions in specific areas of governance (defense, environment, etc.).
A non-partisan democracy is system of representative government or organization such that universal and periodic elections (by secret ballot) take place without reference to political parties.
An organic or authoritarian democracy is a democracy where the ruler holds a considerable amount of power, but their rule benefits the people. The term was first used by supporters of Bonapartism.[3]
 
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy



Definition of democracy
plural democracies
1
a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2
: a political unit that has a democratic government
3
capitalized : the principles and policies of the Democratic party in the U.S.
from emancipation Republicanism to New Deal Democracy —C. M. Roberts
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top