r/politics • u/ben_watson_jr • May 19 '24

How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again? Soft Paywall

https://newrepublic.com/article/181287/can-america-possibly-elect-trump-again
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u/crudedrawer May 19 '24

Yeah, I don't think a lot of people realize just how radical very powerful, very rich republicans are at this point. They've controlled the narrative that the left is extreme because of shit like "blue hair" but guys like Alito and Leonard Leo want to entirely reconstruct our government in their image. Thats radical!

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u/Omar_Blitz May 19 '24

Everything is set up by the system to benefit them. Their power is very disproportional. It's easy for them to stay in power and perpetuate the cycle.

Think about it. You can win a state by A SINGLE vote and get all the votes of that state. How is that just and fair? You can get ten million extra votes and it wouldn't matter if they weren't in the "states that matter." Very fucking fair.

Vermont and wyoming have the same power as California and Texas in the senate. How is that democratic? How can you say "One man, one vote" when one vote in this state counts almost a hundred times more than a vote in that state when it comes to the country's highest legislative body?

And the worst thing is, to fix this you need the consent of those who are in power BECAUSE of the broken system. It's like needing the consent of a felon to issue a fine.

It's all fucked in America.

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u/Ok_Leading999 May 19 '24

The same system elected Obama, Clinton and Biden. They made no effort to change that system because it benefits them too.

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u/Omar_Blitz May 19 '24

Yes, but those didn't lose the popular vote. They would have won under any system.

They don't change it because it's impossible. You need two-thirds of the legislative votes, and no one is getting that... Because of the system...

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u/GrafZeppelin127 May 19 '24

They made no effort to change that system because they could not do so. None of them ever had the votes necessary to pass a constitutional amendment. You need a 2/3 margin to do that in Congress.