@Background Pony #C8DA
I wonder that as well, but superdelegates tend to vote for the most popular candidate out of fear of causing an uproar in their party. Still, it would easy for them to vote for whoever their party wants to and just throw out the popular vote.
And I feel the issue is about money in politics. A single person or small group with billions of dollars should not have more say in the government than someone with nothing. It’s nondemocratic, yet we give companies and billionaires more representation in elections and lawmaking processes than average citizens. If you want to blame anyone for the way the economy is and the way the government is, blame the rich, greedy people that ship jobs overseas and lobby against worker’s rights and welfare so they can make 10,000x more money than their average employee and keep it that way, while giving the poor, disabled, uneducated, and disadvantaged little to no opportunities for ever being wealthy or even financially-stable themselves.
American capitalism is rigged against the poor, and it’s why we need socialism to help fix it.
@Nittany Discord
I’m beginning to wonder if any average person’s vote actually matters… Maybe it’s all an illusion and the real winners/electors are whatever rich people can give a candidate the most money. Then there’s the idea of “superdelegates” in the Democratic primaries. Apparently there are some VIP voters whose opinions count more than ours, and they can give delegates to whichever candidate they like, regardless of what “we the people” think.
@Pagan
Half of the country is still afraid of 18th-century tyranny and “OMG, taxes!!” The truth is, I think we have that tyranny in spades in other forms as it is, or could have it via corporate control or party dominance. In other words, the USA is its own worst enemy when it comes to shutting down freedom and democracy. There are a least a handful of countries with more freedoms and more people-centric government than the US, but some backwater redneck or Fortune 500 CEO is never going to realize or admit that because they like their guns and money or the illusion that the US is still the best country in the world.
And the two-party system is a joke. It’s two flavors of corporate establishment, sprinkled with the odd extremist candidate.
If people truly want to end tyranny, people need to kick corporations out of the government.
Seriously we like to pretend this country is the cutting edge but Canada and France are so far ahead of us it’s embarrassing, this two party system we have now is a bloody joke where neither side can get anything done I don’t know about everyone else but I’m ready for a big boy government not the training wheels version we have now.
@Background Pony #DCCE
I get tired of people equating American socialism to Greece or even Soviet Russia, thinking that Bernie is going to do some sort of mass wealth redistribution. Bernie is actually trying to get us on par with countries like Sweden or Canada, where capitalism coexists happily alongside socialism in a mixed economy. Bernie isn’t going to take everything you own and give it to other people. He wants to tax the people that are actively screwing over millions of other people to keep themselves in the 1%.
But keep being ignorant and believing what corporate media tells you while they keep trying to pay you as little money as possible while making as much money as they can off of you, shipping jobs overseas and hiding income in offshore accounts so they can avoid paying taxes that could easily fund universal healthcare and social programs that would end poverty. Keep believing that the rich are going to give you more money if you keep cutting their taxes until they pay virtually nothing for doing nothing but profiting off of hard-working citizens by playing the stock market. We’ve been fed the lie of trickle down economics for decades, and the only people that have seen more wealth has been the wealthy thanks to people believing in that bullshit, and the only people that money goes to is themselves and the politicians they pay to get elected so they can make laws that make sure they stay rich.
Keep believing in a system rigged against you by the rich for the rich. I’m fucking tired of believing in it while other countries enjoy rights to basic needs like healthcare and food, things we keep saying people need to work hard for to earn, forgetting that some people are trapped in poverty due to disability or draconian punishments like marijuana possession.
Trump, Hillary, and 90% of Washington doesn’t give a shit about you unless you pay their bills and own half the country, and it’s time that changes.
Do some damn research and realize that democratic socialism isn’t this evil thing that will bankrupt a country. It actually works if done properly, as it is done in pretty much every other first-world country on Earth.
Do you plan on annexing Canada and Mexico? How else will you make them better? Lord knows you’ll make Canada worse, as a ton of Americans will move here.
Keep assuming and taking things at face value that’s what Trump supporters are best at.
I don’t think I would vote for him but he would still be better than Trump at least he has political experience and his policies are closer to Canadian than Greece, he was dubbed the “amendment king” in the House of Representatives for passing more amendments than any other member of Congress. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Bernie worked across the aisle to “bridge Washington’s toxic partisan divide and cut one of the most significant deals in years.” In 2015, Democratic leadership tapped Bernie to serve as the caucus’ ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.
@CocoaNut
Im the pedantic
martin waldseemüller named the continent america in honour of amerigo vespucci… gringos did the arrangements to take ownership of the name
Allow me to explain something: There is no continent of America. There is South America and there is North America. If you’re referring to them both, that’s “the Americas.” The United States of America is often shortened to just America.
Also, your graphic is missing Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa… well, you get the idea. That’s the contiguous United States in that graphic right there.
