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It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared?
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How common are faithless electors?
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
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How willing is the system to punish them? And if not the system, how willing are the people?
My question is a statistical inquiry. Your question is a bit more complex, I'm not even sure what that data would look like.
Not very. The real problem is straight up fake electors. With the State Secretary office sending a legitimate group and the legislature sending another.
All they need to do is stall that process long enough to either toss the election into Congress or have SCOTUS illegally intervene again
The real problem is no one votes. It's the bare minimum level of effort. It's the participation trophy. They can do all that because we put them there with embarrassingly bad voter turnout. We spend more time complaining than actually voting.
All of those problems are the symptoms of an unrepresentative government, and a government tends to represent the people who vote for them. If no one votes, they'll listen to the highest bidder.
The illusion of choice: vote for a senile old man or a senile old man that would consider turning minorities into Big Macs because he is hungry
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Short Answer: No
Long Answer: I'm prepared for the Republicans to do the most blatantly illegal and immoral thing to steal the election, for Democrats to wave their finger if they feel an "aww shucks" isn't good enough, and for Democracy to die so Decorum may live... and for the Media to pretend it's not happening while they parrot "BoTh SiDeS", Comedians will call it as it is, but that'll be the extent of it.
The electoral system in the US has been going increasingly downhill. It's sad that it also affects the rest of the world as well.
I love how it's the dem's responsibility to keep conservatives from destroying the country - oh wait, no, it's been that way since bush ran the economy into the shitter, er, no, not that bush, the other bush & reagan. Somehow conservatives always present some kind of existential threat to the democracy that's the left's job to fix again and again.
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I don't know who newrepublic.com is, and I'm no fan of Israel and its homicidal reactionism right now, but if you think that there's any chance at all that this is going to make me vote for a goddamn insurrectionist sociopath over the guy I occasionally have policy disagreements with, you are an absolute waste of oxygen.
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