As GW has shown, money and power can get you "elected" even if you don't have a majority of the votes cast for you. And the Electoral College system might have made sense in the days before telegraph machines, but how come a few dippled chads in Dade county Florida can "throw out" all the votes in California?
"It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
--Leonard Cohen
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Since Allah has given me a brain, it would seem like a sin not to use it.
Democracy!
As GW has shown, money and power can get you "elected" even if you don't have a majority of the votes cast for you. And the Electoral College system might have made sense in the days before telegraph machines, but how come a few dippled chads in Dade county Florida can "throw out" all the votes in California?
"It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A."
--Leonard Cohen
--
Since Allah has given me a brain, it would seem like a sin not to use it.