So I was watching Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 film and he said Bernie won all 55 counties in West Virginia, yet the delegates voted for Clinton. I looked it up and it’s true:
Moore informs his viewers of some unsettling facts that the vast majority of Americans are unaware of. One such fact is that in the 2016 Democratic primary in West Virginia, Bernie Sanders won all 55 counties— yes, all of them; yet because of the authoritarian and corrupt Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee, Clinton ended up with more West Virginian delegates than Sanders. And Moore points out that West Virginia was not the only state where this kind of disenfranchisement occurred. brucelevine.net/michael-moores-f … ing-trump/
What the heck?
Bernie also won Indiana, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, but the delegates voted for Clinton.
Not only that, but West Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, Montana voted for Trump in the election after their delegates voted for Clinton against their democratic wishes.
Bernie certainly would have defeated Trump in WV and probably IN and MI since Bernie was speaking directly to those in the Rust Belt states. I’m not sure about MT, but it only has 3 electoral votes anyway. WV = 5, IN = 11, MI = 16 for 32 extra votes for Bernie, which at 264 is 6 short of the 270 needed, but winning another Rust Belt state (highly likely) would have been plenty.
If we assume those who voted for Clinton would have also voted for Bernie instead of Trump, then Bernie would have easily defeated Trump.
Also, the polling data had Bernie on top of Trump by 10 points consistently realclearpolitics.com/epolls/20 … -5565.html
Anyway…
This electoral college / delegate / representative republic crap provides absolutely no mechanism to dethrone whoever it is appointing our governors since the people are muzzled, neutered, and rendered completely irrelevant. If someone can win all 55 counties and still lose to someone that no one likes, then we may as well have a monarchy. What would be the difference?
What is the genesis of this major malfunction?
The electoral college came about because of slavery: they needed a constitution that both the north and the south would agree to.
[i]Madison acknowledged that while a popular vote would be ideal, it would be difficult to get consensus on the proposal given the prevalence of slavery in the South:
“There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to the fewest objections.”[/i] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St … Background
Right… another centrist compromise.
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