I don't know that I agree with that necessarily. I know the thought is by going to a true popular vote system, the rural areas vote is devalued. BUT, a candidate would have to win more than just the urban vote. Not to mention, Congress is set up to have equal representation in the Senate, and there are many rural districts represented in the House. In fact, there has to be more non urban representation. Congress is more powerful than the Presidency. Not that any of it matters at this point. I don't see 2/3 of Congress and 38 states passing an amendment to remove the electoral. It has worked more times than it hasn't...even if it's a strange system.
The top ten populated states back in 2013 had 171M people, the bottom 40 states represented 143M. The bottom states become irrelevant when you only need the popular vote. In a democracy, the majority can impose its will on the minority, in a republic it can not. It prevents those that are large in numbers from using their power as a bargaining chip.
@UCFKnights07 Your vote definitely matters, while there have been faithless electors, a FE has never decided an election.
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@Eyes On The Prize Adam Ruins is calling America a democracy, we are a republic.
Not even addressing your pro-life views because I've learned that we all look that issue from a different stand point that's deeper than a post on a forum.
Bill Clinton also was the first president to actually speak out for support of the LGBTQ community. DOMA was not signed out of beliefs but to avoid further damage (depending on who you ask). Clinton is the same president who pushed ENDA.
And to bring up rap music is a telling argument to me. Rap artists are not the leaders of the free world. Most people don't take music, especially rap music for its context for that reason alone. Gucci didn't get accused of sexual assault by multiple women. There are girls my age who listen to rap and cringe at some lines. But music is art. Sexism is HUGE in Country music. They might not be calling women the b word but the objectification of women in country music has been going on for years. But you never hear that in an argument.
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facts on the procedures of second and third trimester abortion, directed to the point they are no longer "clumps of cells". Whether or not people want to address pro-life, pro-choice, or assisted suicide views, it is crucial to our judicial system to define the beginning and end of life if we are going to intervene. The case in Colorado where the baby was cut from its mother is a prime example of laws poorly executed.
Woman who cut unborn baby from its mother's womb is convicted - CNN.com If people choose to believe it is our right to dismember or inflict cardiac arrest to extract infants from the womb during the second and third trimester, so be it. But, we deserve to be educated on exactly what those late procedures entail, what pain is inflicted and the consequences to the legal outcome if a murder occurs before we all proudly wave our "Yay, that's my right flag."
Your comment, "Depending on who you ask." was my point. Clinton signed DOMA into place and his views evolved along with millions of others. People evolve, however, we, the media and politicians are very selective in who we allow to evolve along with us and who we choose to chastise.
Whether it comes out of a leaders mouth or a leader condones sexually explicit rap as "art", it comes with consequence in regard to public opinion. Debating is irrelevant, opinions are formed by action and words.
Leaders and media should be held to a higher standard. Trump, Clinton and Obama told the country, quite graciously in fact, it's time to unite and move on. Debate on policy is good, checks and balances are good but, the "uneducated, bigots, racists, gun slinging, immigrant hating, Bible thumping, Muslim hating, deplorable" dialect only served to create a huge population of in the closet, anti-establishment, voters. Either we will start listening and change the dialect or we will continue down the path of division.
