The people of America do not elect their Presidents by voting. Presidents are appointed by the Electoral College ‘votes’.
According to our Constitution, it would not have mattered if every single person in the U.S. voted for Hillary.
Trump won the Electoral College and that is ALL that matters.
(However I am not saying we should not demand that the Voting Rights Act should not be enforced, only pointing out we need to focus our attention on the people that ARE electing our presidents, rather than spending all our energies on the Presidential Election itself, and until the electoral college can be abolished.)
Aside from the fact that our election was interfered with, Hillary still won the ‘popular vote’ anyway, and it still didn’t matter.
Until the Bush/Gore fiasco in 2000 only four Presidents in our history, since the ratification of the Twelfth Amendment (1804) which clarified the rules and provided for the Electoral College, have been appointed against the popular vote.
Comparatively, the two out of the last three Presidents have been against the people’s choice.
Until we Amend or repeal the Twelfth to reinstitute popular vote for Presidential elections, like every other ‘advanced' (and not so advanced) society, ratify an Amendment wherein ALL our elections are freed from and prevented from using ANY/ALL corporate/SuperPAC/private interest monies, standardize money spent and media coverage, and insist on transparency of candidate platforms, including previous bills and legislations supported/voted and ideological platforms, America will never have truly democratic elections.
We also need to clarify the separation of powers. There is far too many gray or nonexistent lines between our Three Branches of Government.
Our Constitution was meant to grow and evolve with us. Not become an artifact of bygone eras chiseled in stone. Our Declaration of Independence makes that clear.
We need to be freed from the corruption of money in our elections, and reduce its influence to corrupt to finite amounts in our politics and government.
The amounts of money wasted in elections alone are enough to fund social programs and/or Social Security for years if not decades.
For instance the last presidential election cycle saw more than $4.2 BILLION funneled instead of channeled.
Ethically and morally there is NO justification for this level of wrong.
Until we have an educated populace (including reinstituting the civics classes Reagan uniformly got rid of in public school curricula), collectively, we will continue to de-evolve and make choices based on arbitrary beliefs and entertainment propaganda, rather than knowledge.
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“People would rather believe than know.” — Edward O. Wilson
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” ― Frank Zappa
“There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative power and the executive power.” — Charles de Montesquieu
“In a way, the worldview of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it.
“They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.
“By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.” — George Orwell
