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calguy

(5,325 posts)
2. Unfortunately, many in our majority don't vote
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:06 PM
Jun 2018

Maybe all the bullshit coming down will wake these people up. One can only hope. When we vote in numbers we win. When we don't, we lose.

lapfog_1

(29,219 posts)
6. And as the RWNJ like to point out all the time
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:10 PM
Jun 2018

this isn't a democracy, it is a Republic. Having the numbers on a national scale mean little because of the Senate and the Electoral College... and those two institutions control SCOTUS (Senate approvals of nominees of the President elected by the College).

I'm sure our founding fathers meant well when they set up these institutions... but I am just as sure they never imagined that a nation could be so far out of whack with what the majority wants that the Senate would be representative of a minority of the population or that a President who was soundly beaten in the popular vote would never the less be installed as our President.

spanone

(135,866 posts)
7. they could have never foreseen the internet and the rapid dissemination of information.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:14 PM
Jun 2018

and the ability to lie on such a massive scale with such a huge microphone

plus an echo chamber on the scale of fox news.....

Ligyron

(7,639 posts)
8. Slaves outnumbered Roman citizens as well for all the good it did them.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:19 PM
Jun 2018

They stayed slaves til the day they died.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
10. it doesnt matter, what matters is who has the power
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:41 PM
Jun 2018

if are the majority, it means that the US is not a democracy.

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