It is strange watching average America look at a common IT Issue. There was a Fiber cut. It brought down a network. This happens frequently. Timing sucks, but the average person never sees this so they jump to conspiracies and malicious intent.
Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
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Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re correct. It’s a Republic with a sane voting system that keeps the mobs from the population centers from ruling the country. You say weakness I say strength.
And so instead of the "mobs from the population centers" ruling the country we have the "mobs" from a few swing states running the country. How is that better? When it comes to the Senate why should dirt in one state get so much more say than people in another?
Why must the will of these population centers be exercised at the highest level of our government in the first place? Surely they could just implement their policies at the state level, unless, that is, the goal is not to make effective policy but to instead vindictively assert their will over their ideological rivals.
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
As of this year Republicans officially have no enumerated platform.
Oh you haven't been watching nearly enough FOX if you think that :) Take that from someone who now has a Tucker Carlson shaped brain aneurism.
I believe what parent comment means is that the RNC has no national platform that they have adopted, advertised and articulated for their National Convention delegates to deliberate and vote on leading up to the election.
Which is a correct and true statement, the RNC hasn’t published a party platform as they have in years prior.
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention...
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
And so instead of the "mobs from the population centers" ruling the country we have the "mobs" from a few swing states running the country. How is that better? When it comes to the Senate why should dirt in one state get so much more say than people in another?
Why must the will of these population centers be exercised at the highest level of our government in the first place? Surely they could just implement their policies at the state level, unless, that is, the goal is not to make effective policy but to instead vindictively assert their will over their ideological rivals.
Uh... because they've got most of the population? Is this a trick question? Wasn't the whole idea that majority rules?
If you're not going with majority rules, then what's the basis for picking this particular minority to vindictively assert their will over their ideological rivals?
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why must the will of these population centers be exercised at the highest level of our government in the first place? Surely they could just implement their policies at the state level, unless, that is, the goal is not to make effective policy but to instead vindictively assert their will over their ideological rivals.
Uh... because they've got most of the population? Is this a trick question? Wasn't the whole idea that majority rules? If you're not going with majority rules, then what's the basis for picking this particular minority to vindictively assert their will over their ideological rivals?
You seem stuck in this binary where you believe that if you are not ruling over some else they must be ruling over you.
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Senator Mike Lee wasn't just being honest, his statement that the US is not a democracy is factual. This isn't actually new, and there's a reason that the white house and senate have been packing the courts with justices from the Federalist Society. The ideological disagreement between federalists and democrats is as old as the country. The "weird" thing is that the country has been quite focused on installing democr…
> ...have been packing the courts What exactly do you mean when you use this phrase?
You'll find my answer at the end of the sentence that you truncated. If you consider that to be bait, please do your part to keep HN civil, and don't pick it up.
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Wildly unpopular" ~= 49% of the voters approve [edit for clarity: of the party]. There's truly deeper systemic issues in the United States than the Republican's economic policies.
Policy proposals such as "the rich should be taxed more" routinely get approval from ~65% of voters. Thankfully for that party, they've found a way to get people to vote based on fear, racism, abortion, guns and other divisive issues instead of economic policy.
_That_ party? Those are wedge issues specifically because they apply to both parties.
> fear
"LGBTQ lives are at risk" vs. "rioters are burning down our cities"
> racism
"systemic racism is a problem" vs "critical race theory is a problem"
> abortion, guns
self explanatory.
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh you haven't been watching nearly enough FOX if you think that :) Take that from someone who now has a Tucker Carlson shaped brain aneurism.
I believe what parent comment means is that the RNC has no national platform that they have adopted, advertised and articulated for their National Convention delegates to deliberate and vote on leading up to the election. Which is a correct and true statement, the RNC hasn’t published a party platform as they have in years prior. https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399396/republican-convention...
Ahh, I misunderstood, thanks for the clarification!
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...have been packing the courts What exactly do you mean when you use this phrase?
You'll find my answer at the end of the sentence that you truncated. If you consider that to be bait, please do your part to keep HN civil, and don't pick it up.
I in no way intended it to be bait. I was merely seeking clarification because for about 100 years, up until roughly 2 weeks ago, that phrase had a pretty well-established meaning. One that is different from the way you used it.
Re: Virginia voter registration down on last day to register before election
#70I don't know much about US elections, but from what I've seen in the news the last couple of weeks, I have to say I'm less than impressed. The rest of the world used to see the US as a beacon of democracy. But the country seems to be utterly incapable of organizing fair elections for its populace. Voter registration failures. Voter intimidation. Politicians literally redrawing maps in order to gain an advangate. A pr…
Senator Mike Lee wasn't just being honest, his statement that the US is not a democracy is factual. This isn't actually new, and there's a reason that the white house and senate have been packing the courts with justices from the Federalist Society. The ideological disagreement between federalists and democrats is as old as the country. The "weird" thing is that the country has been quite focused on installing democr…
What a shame to "pack the courts" (as you say) with people who believe in the Constitution as their guiding light.