20-02-2017, 10:36 AM
Cliff Varnell Wrote:[quote=Paul Rigby]
Talbot is unaware of the Dominionist Proto-Autocracy conducting a massive voter suppression campaign spear-headed by Republican Party operatives Kris Kobach and James Comey.
Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million in spite of the GOP disenfranchisement of millions of minority voters.
Trump wasn't elected by We The People -- he was selected by the Bible Thumpers in the bi-polar Deep State.
Any discussion of the 2016 election that doesn't acknowledge this Dominionist Coup D'Etat is wrong-headed.
All very well and good, but a popular vote has not been the basis for winning presidential elections in the US since 1804 when the Twelfth Amendment was ratified by Congress to establish the electoral college system.
I actually think the popular vote is the proper way to go as it actually is democratic. But charging this last election was unfair on that basis is a nonsense - unless you have a record of challenging the voting system in the past.
And to be honest it is this that does my nut in about this last election and the public rupture in the elite -- the righteous hypocrisy of the howling mob who can't stomach the result. Yes Trump is awful and foul, yes Clinton would've been just as awful and foul. No choice.
So the question is how many among the howling dissenters are arguing that it is the entire political process in the US that is broken? That the political process was designed broken in order to keep power in the hands of the elite. Because that is the truth of it.
As usual you're all being manipulated and refuse to see it as you hungrily swallow the fodder artfully laid out for you to feast on.
::throwbomb::
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14