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Too convoluted. I would prefer direct election of presidents.

Had no idea. Will take that under consideration on future posts.

"Uninformed voter"is code for "people who vote for the other guy."

As opposed to the current system in which California, Texas, Florida, and New York can STFU and accept the president Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, both Dakotas, Rhode Island, Delaware, Kansas, Montana, Idaho, Maine, and West Virginia elect for them?

This is why I wrote in Michelle Obama in the last two elections. Even though I bet she's make a fine president, of course she could never win, because the state is already inthe bag for the Democratic candidate anyway, so why does it matter. Certain people here like to criticize me for doing this and say I should vote D anyway to run up the national score, or whatever. But what good is that when one candidate can win the national vote by millions but still lose the election to the guy who got the second-most votes anyway? It's borderline pointless. In the end, every vote an Illinoisian casts for president is completely thrown out, then a delegation of 20 people go to Washington and cast 100% of their votes for whoever the D candidate is. How does this qualify as democracy in action?

That would be the traditional outcome.

This is the thing that gets lost or ignored in the debate when EC proponents say if we had a national popular vote, candidates would campaign only in New York and California. First of all, not true. Second of all, we've already reduced presidential campaigning to occurring only in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin, right now, so how would that even be different?

They would if we still had profitable regional slavery.

I guess we'll see whether the courts agree with you.

I have had DirecTV since 1999 and I am loathe to give it up. I also have an Apple TV unit and do have access to all the major streamers. (🤫 Don't ask how). Every once in a while my wife and I will discuss cutting the cord, but then we will experience pixeling or blurring or buffering and have to reset the Apple TV unit, which reminds us that even with AT&T gig speed Internet, perfect rendering of streaming picture is not certain or assured. Satellite TV service is expensive, but I generally call in once a year and negotiate discounts that knocks $60 or $70 or $80 a month off the price, depending on what number I call, who I get on the phone, and what the prevailing offer is. It's still close to $100 because we have a top tier package with HBO/SHO, but it's convenient and the picture quality is first rate over 99% of the time.

🙋🏼‍♂️ Ooh ooh, I think I might know this one: The guy with 11 loaves?

Apparently Flores is so fed up that he doesn't believe that under the current system he has any chance to be an effective coach, with as much support and leeway for mistakes, as a white coach would have a chance to. He'd rather try to change the system and maybe not coach anymore, versus trying to shapeshift himself to accommodate the system and maybe not coach anymore. His story sounds kind of familiar ...

Go Commies!

Right, and also, that it was great once in some gauzy lace curtain past framed by Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, an America that never really existed for any but a very few, but that strongly animates the imagination of a lot of people who are essentially afraid of the present and the future.

You’re totally right, every president wants to make America great. I would simply stipulate that making America great is a very different concept from Making America Great Again.

It makes sense to me that many people don’t believe Confederate ideas and iconography are treasonous or even disloyal because about 100 years ago, i.e., about 50 years after the war between the states, there was a big national reconciliation between the southern states and the northern states. A lot of people recognized that the generation that fought that war was dying off, so people wanted to honor them on the way out. There were parades all over the country featuring veterans of both sides, and the sense that everyone (or at least every white one) is really on the same side, America’s side, after all. That idea was cemented by everyone fighting together against European enemies in the First World War. The South was rehabilitated as a vital part of America with a beautiful antebellum past to cherish and celebrate in cultural touchstones such as books, music, and movies. And, of course, to mobilize against a common enemy of their own making. All that peculiar thinking has been passed down through the generations and, as we can see, still persists today in a form much stronger then one might presume, considering it’s been over 100 years since the rehabilitation got under way. I believe this is a big reason many people see no problem with conflating the confederate flag with American ideals. In a lot of ways, the Confederate States was the United States, albeit with a stronger slavery institution.

Not for nothing, Ronald Reagan also wanted to Make America Great Again™.

What you say is absolutely right, and I also find it interesting how, just as Republican ideology is increasingly being revealed to be wearing no clothes, those same people are homing in on polarization along people in America as a big problem, which they never cared about before, and one that, of course, was created by teh left. All very sweet, isn’t it?

Right. Like just about any other myth, parts of it are sort of true, which they’ve glossed to a bright shine, and the rest of it they just made up to round out the story.

Since when is "bruh" an insult?

Another shooting at a Virginia college. 😥

I'm not a party guy. I'm a liberal. Learn the difference. Party or not, it was not simply a protest. People broke into the Capitol, violently attacking police to do so, and trawled the halls looking for congressional reps to force them to to give the presidency to the man who lost the election. There is video and sworn testimony attesting to all this. that is a fact, and it is not up for debate. Regardless of whether twenty thousand or whatever people in the crowd might not have unlawfully broken into the Capitol with the intention of forcing the election results to be thrown out, two thousand people did do that, so that's an insurrection, an attempted coup, and any other synonym that might be applied to it.

So it's finally official: Matthew Stafford ran Tom Brady out of football.

You're right in that the anti-American action of the Republicans belie their empty words.

Go to a national popular vote to determine the president and none of this is a problem anymore.