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Home Front: Politix

Do We Still Have A Congress Or Is It Becoming A Parliament?

2018-11-09

[HOT AIR] This is a subject which came up on one of the cable news shows yesterday morning (I don’t recall which one) that I found interesting. One of the more telling statistics from this set of midterm elections was the high number of races which were won based on the registration advantage of one of the two major parties in each state and district. The only ones which were really up in the air were the contests where the split was either very close or the margin was exceeded by the number of independent voters. While that may just seem like "common sense" in the modern era it hasn’t always been that way.

This includes races where candidates with a generic ballot advantage had what should have been obvious disqualifying factors stacked against them. In New York and California, Republican incumbents Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter are both under indictment on very serious federal charges, yet they both won their races anyway. In New Jersey, Senator Bob Menendez was re-elected with a full ten percent margin of victory despite only barely escaping prison time on corruption charges by the grace of a hung jury. (Not to mention persistent stories of dalliances with underage hookers.) Shouldn’t that be telling us something?

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 Howcan you have civil, reasoning discourse with cheaters in the voting system?

I suspect POTUS is moving forward to flip over the wormed filled Broward County, Florida rock. Hopefully Snipes will end up in a Federal prison.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-11-09 16:45

#3 How can you have civil, reasoning discourse with cheaters in the voting system? You cannot. You are dealing with criminals. If you cannot deal with criminals, your options narrow quite down to only a few.

Are you institutionalizing criminal behavior or are you not? That there is the question.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2018-11-09 16:21

#2 Spain did that, national vote followed by appointing delegates, and it got them to the Spanish Civil War. Bluntly, the Dictatorship Of The Majority™ leaves the Minority no other options. Federalism at least lets your region decide on things...
And a side note: the Spanish had entire districts voting ~~100%~~, no 110%! for the local political machine. Any of that going on today?

Posted by: magpie 2018-11-09 15:55

#1 Democrats want a uni-cameral parlimentary system where one nation wide vote fills all the seats and gets to pick the executives and judicial officers as well.

This is their dictatorship of the proletariat wet dream.

Posted by: AlanC 2018-11-09 08:53

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