The following is a 10 message exchange between 3 users
@97J4T592yrs2Y
Understand politics before making decisions that effect everybody
So then smaller states with smaller populations just get no say so correct??? Cause that's the purpose of the electoral!!! All states (which actually means people in politics) are different sizes. Therefore smaller states less population versus bigger states with bigger population. If we went by popular vote because electoral college is gone then these smaller states would not be able to compete with bigger states. For example, lets say California has a population of 1.5 billion half those people (750,000,000) feel democratic while other half (750,000,000) feel republican. But Montana… Read more
@VulcanMan6 1yr1Y
“So then smaller states with smaller populations just get no say”
No, it just means all people would get an equal say; under the electoral college, people in smaller states are given a larger "say" than people in larger states...which is blatantly anti-democratic. If some people have more of a say than others, then that's not democratic, that's just inflating the beliefs of a minority simply because they're in a minority. Everyone should have the same, equal vote, and if that means a minority belief is unpopular...then that's just how majoritarianism works. Plus, smaller states/towns always have their own local elections anyways, so I don't even understand the issue? If the majority of the country votes for Party A, then that's obviously who should lead nationally, but if your small state/town votes majority Party B, then your state/town should be lead by Party B...
@TruthHurts10111mos11MO
I am strongly Anti-Democratic and darn proud of it because I AM A REPUBLICAN NOT A DEMOCRAT!
@VulcanMan6 11mos11MO
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but the political party names are not actually representative of being pro-/anti-democracy.
More importantly, why are you strongly against democratic decision-making? So that implies that you believe that not everyone should be allowed to vote, right?
@TruthHurts10111mos11MO
Absolutely. So Democracy is majority tyranny. What I believe in is a Republic, which our nation, by the way, actually is -- and that means that consent of the governed is retained while individual rights, being uninfringable and inalienable, cannot be voted away by mob rule. Actually the party names are representative of being pro/anti-democracy. Republicans were founded to abolish slavery because they knew that just because the voters said slavery was right didn't make it legal. Democrats were founded to protect the institution of slavery and racism because that's what the majority wanted. So yes the parties are an anti/pro democratic system.
@VulcanMan6 11mos11MO
Except that's not true. The Republican Party originally got it's name from the anti-monarchist sentiments of the French Revolution; in fact, the original party name was Democratic-Republicans until the party ended up splitting into eventually just Democrats and Republicans. Neither party was created for, nor representative of, the systems of government "Republic" and "Democracy". Both parties are pro-Republic, and their differences are based on how much power the federal/state governments should hold, not on entire systems of governance.
Secondly, I'm not… Read more
@TruthHurts10111mos11MO
Except that is true. Do you know a single thing about our history? Republicans, Whigs, and Federalists (the GOP's precursers) all hated the French Revolution and weren't shy about saying it. The name was actually borrowed from Thomas Jefferson's "Republican Party" of the 1790s. I don't trust any of your historical insights now, that's for sure, because obviously you don't know history!
@VulcanMan6 11mos11MO
Firstly, the Federalists were not the GOP's precursor, given that the Federalist Party died off in the early 1800s. It was the Democratic-Republican Party that eventually fractured into the Democratic and Republican Parties.
Secondly, during the French Revolution, the Federalist Party was in support of Britain against France, whereas the Dem-Republican Party was in opposition to Britain against France, hence why Jefferson even named it the Republican Party in the first place: he felt the Federalists were too supportive of aristocratic policies, and he formed the Republican Party (later Democratic-Republican Party) as a response against them.
Even the GPT users acknowledge this...
@TruthHurts10111mos11MO
Don't know about you but I’m a historian and I’m very extra sure that you’re wrong…
@VulcanMan6 11mos11MO
Then go ahead and provide your proof, since everyone else has agreed with me, and you are the only one saying we're all wrong...
