THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AT ITS WORST

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE DOES NOT WORK!  It has never been a democratic way of electing the President and Vice-President, but that's not a mistake.  Our forefathers designed it that way because they didn't trust the democratic process.  A history lesson in voting rights in this country should teach us at least that much.  I blame most of this on the federal system where states are allowed to control voting, which is idiotic when it comes to national elections.  But the way it's set up, this fart brained system of election, is the current law and should be respected until it is legally changed.  Trump should win the electoral college because he won the most states, and that's the simple fact of the matter.  And the vote in the electoral college won't be close due to the current rules. Forget all the bullshit about who won the overall popular vote because it doesn't count.  Forget all the Trump sculduggery as to how he won those states because that doesn't count either.  We let it happen, and now we have to live with it . . . and no one deserves it more than we do.

People who voted for Trump, the dumbfucks who bought the lies and skulduggery, are first in line when it comes to the Great Idiot Award . . . but just barely.  Were I giving the award, the Democrats would get it.  How can anyone screw up an election campaign any worse than they did?  Clinton should never have been the candidate, and her campaign cost them a victory in the way they went about ousting Bernie Sanders.  The Clinton campaign staff was rife with sleazy political operatives, nitwits, and lowlifes.  Want to talk about how badly Trump has damaged the Republicans?  He has, but there's no way he's done a number on them like the Clintons and their band of bullies have done to the Democrats.  Want to talk of party purges?  Start with the Democrats because they're truly become Dumocrats.  The Trump campaign was smart enough to seize the opportunity the Democrats provided them, so kudos to them for that.

But here's the bad news.  With Trump's win, this nation is now in the crapper.  Low class has risen to the top like rancid cream, and your new government will be staffed by corporate pirates, right wing extremists, racists, xenophobes, and the dregs of our political society.  And it won't work, and we'll all pay the price for that.  Complaints against Trump won't go away.  Investigations will cripple his presidency like none we've ever seen, the economy will suffer, unemployment will rise, and there'll be the onset of a season of real political hostility.  And since there are no good guys in this fight, there's little chance of a win for anyone.

Perhaps you've owned one, a car that just will not work right, always leaves you stranded and afoot. And you keep pouring money into repairs, but the car just keeps breaking down.  At some point in time you come to the realization that it's worn out and must be replaced.  You go shopping for a new vehicle to get you where you need and want to go, but finding something you can afford is almost impossible.  That's where we are with government and politics in the U.S.  It is broken beyond repair, and it's time for a new one, and we don't even know how to go shopping for it.  Too many obstacles are in the way, and so we keep pouring money into the old vehicle, hoping and praying it will get us around for a while longer.  What this all means is simple:  We're fucked.  And we did it to ourselves.

JUST HOW BAD CAN YOU SCREW UP AN ELECTION? WE KNOW HOW

In the year 2016 we're still running presidential elections based on a plan set in motion by men who died two centuries ago.  Does that make sense to anyone?  It shouldn't, but we've still got a system based on state by state vote counts that determine who wins the electors from that state.  And each state gets as many electoral votes as it has representatives in Congress, meaning two senators from each state and whatever they're entitled to in the House of Representatives based on population.  So the state of Wyoming gets three electors for a tiny population of less than half million people.  Less people vote there than in a small section of a large city, but they get three electors.  The total popular vote total in this dimwitted election plan means nothing.  Does that make sense to anyone?  On several occasions the winner in the electoral college lost the popular vote, but still, they became the President.  This just happened again when Trump lost the popular vote by more than two million votes.  He won the entire west other than the west coast and a few states, and then more populous states he won were usually by squeaky think margins where voter fraud could have been part of the game.  And so, this all means that we ended up with a pussy grabbing, lying, cheating, unqualified, blabbermouth as President.

Trump was right about one thing - elections are rigged.  They're rigged by a crooked press, the media, and by idiotic state elections laws governing how votes are cast, and by a dumbed down voting public stupid enough to believe almost anything.  I'm not sure fixing the voting system would do much to fix the class of people we now have trooping to the polls, but doing that would at least make it more democratic.  The electoral college needs to be junked and the winner should be the candidate with the most popular votes.  It should be a matter of who won it all and not who won what state.  I've never been a fan of the federal system, which means I've never cared for states.  If you want to build a nation that can take care of national matters, get rid of state sovereignty over things like elections.  In national elections, we should have national rules that all government units abide by.  There can be no national direction as long as the nation is fragmented by different rules of governance.

I'd offer a solution for this, but it's a mute point.  The insignificant state will fight tooth and nail to keep their place in an electoral college, and since it's a political issue, it won't die easily.  And, we'll always be at risk of getting bad leaders.  A lot of people understand this but want no part of trying to change it.  We don't even seem to learn lessons the hard way, and somewhere in all of that, logic is lost.  It's so simple and easy a fix that we can't see the value in it.  Does everything have to be complicated?  Just count the votes, dammit, and do that in a way fraud is reduced . . . and you've finally got a winner that deserves the office.