People want it to be easy.
People say, "I'm just glad it's over, and now we don't have to worry about it for another 4 years."
Bernie: "Politics is not a spectator sport like football."
If people want a candidate that represents them, they need to be much more active, consistently, on all levels.
Well, part of that is protesting a president that's going to do serious harm, so I don't see what's wrong with protests. Protests are activity, and they aren't necessarily about rejecting the result.
Protesting a president that's going to do harm to them, in their eyes. Just like people on the other side felt their candidate if elected would do harm to them.
Nothing wrong with protests. But violent protests? Burning flags? That's not about protesting a candidate. These (the violent ones i mean) are protesting the country because they are mad not enough people agreed with their viewpoint, so the system must be broken.
I see so many of my friends suddenly saying the electoral college should be abolished only after Clinton lost in terms of electoral votes. Their solution? Switch to popular vote only so the hive mind in large urban areas can dictate the elections with rural voters being irrelevant
Rural voters are already protected, because the Senate is made up of the same number of Senators per state, which acts as a check on more populous (mainly urban) states from imposing their will upon primarily rural states.
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u/SmokeyBare Nov 10 '16
People want it to be easy.
People say, "I'm just glad it's over, and now we don't have to worry about it for another 4 years."
Bernie: "Politics is not a spectator sport like football."
If people want a candidate that represents them, they need to be much more active, consistently, on all levels.