Tuesday, April 12, 2016

NEWS ALERT: Founding Fathers Rigged the Democratic System

It was revealed today that the Founding Fathers manipulated the system for electing a President through the establishment of a Byzantine electoral process that shut voters out.

Known as the "Electoral System," the process set up by the authors of the Constitution involves a corrupt, anti-democratic process that ignores the popular vote and instead requires states to send delegates to the "Electoral College." The process is so rigged that someone could win the presidency who did not receive a majority of the popular vote.

In fact, come to think of it, the whole idea of a republic is anti-democratic. I mean, having to elect representatives to some political body instead of everyone just voting directly? C'mon.

In any case, the revelation of the nature of the process yesterday caused Donald Trump to cry foul because ... 

Oh, wait. Hmmm. Actually the national electoral system has been known for a long time. 

Actually it was the Colorado Republican electoral system—which also works on a representative, not a directly democratic basis—that he got upset about when it resulted in an organizational schooling by Cruz.


Never mind.

1 comment:

Martin Cothran said...

Someone pointed out on Twitter that it was Mississippi, not North Carolina, where Bryan Adams refused to go. I have changed the original post to reflect that.