It isn't the first time in recent times. They stole it from Al Gore through the Florida chad confusion! I even now recall Jeb Bush, the then Governor of Florida pronouncing that if he's needed, he will provide assurance to his brother of Florida's enduring loyalty to the Party! Florida is in the Republican pocket, he proclaimed! And, he was right!
But in 2016, another electoral gimmick was used: the electoral college. It could override the majority vote, as in this case was needed if Trump would win. Now, no democratic country except the US has an electoral college to overcome the will of the majority voting citizenry. The decision of the voters is final--in favor of majority rule across the world, except for the US. That is to say, the majority opinion is final; not subject to any possible tyranny of a minority voting electorate.
Importantly, in these other democratic countries, there seems to be no problem in abiding by the voting majority, a prospect that our founding fathers seriously imagined. Clearly, the founders of the United States were elite snobs, wary of its citizenry.
I further believe that the Republicans, having now latched onto the untoward principle of voting irregularities as a means to overturn adherence to abiding by majority rule will deploy it again and again as might suit them! Indeed, as Trump has indicated again and again during his campaign for the Office, the American public are gullible and naive!
What Democrats should do as an appropriate response
So, how to reply to Republican corruption?
There's only one response path available when corruption in high places has occurred: don't go along with it. At each turn, make sure the DOJ and the FBI at the federal level and the citizenry from far and yonder hold the Republican leadership in each federal branch--administration, congress, and the judiciary--responsible for abandoning the majority rule at the ballot box. The Republican leadership must come to know that the will of the people as demonstrated through its election plurality is the final say in a democracy. And let us call into question a docile acquiescence to a Republican subversion of the democratic principles that are adhered to in democratic countries everywhere else.
Monday, June 19, 2017
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