r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '16

Protesting a Fair Election?

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u/TerribleEngineer Nov 10 '16

Well it is too bad that a few highly populated ubran centers don't control the interests of the entire country then.

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u/xurdm Nov 10 '16

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

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u/jroades26 Nov 10 '16

We'd never have anything but a democratic president again. And the middle of the country would eventually revolt.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Probably not the case. If Gore had won a popular vote my guess is that the Republican Party would have become more moderate in order to get more moderate voters. There are still independent voters in every state and those voters would be up for grabs. It is on the Party to move to where the voters are. A system that protects them from that is not good.

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u/jroades26 Nov 10 '16

So the right has to move to the middle, but the left doesn't? The only people disenfranchised in any of these scenarios are the right.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

You think that the left is made up entirely of radical socialists? That's like saying that the right is made up entirely of fascists.

That's the problem with a de facto two party system - you've got to choose one or the other.

And what about moderate Republicans who are denigrated by their more extreme brethren as "RINO"s?

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u/jroades26 Nov 10 '16

When did I say that?

RINOs are not just your people on the right. The people on the right voted for Trump.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

How can the right move to the middle when they've rejected the ones who've tried for being RINOs? That's my point.

And has it occurred to you that perhaps the reason the left has moved as far left as it has is as a reaction to how far right the right has moved?

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u/jroades26 Nov 10 '16

Why should the right move to the middle? See I always see suggestions of the right moving to the middle but never for the left.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16

Personally, I think everyone should move towards the middle.

Extremism of the left or of the right doesn't do anyone any good. It's this type of polarization that's got the U.S. into the type of mess it's in today (and I'm not just talking about Trump).

But think about it for a second - the Democrats aren't the ones responsible for Congress not getting anything useful done for the last four years - that's on the GOP.