I’m sitting here with MSNBC on mute in the background, and they keep showing a US map in different colors, with a chart about electoral college votes in the corner. Why the fuck do we still have the electoral college? Do you know anyone in it? It can after all elect the next president, regardless of what the people do, shouldn’t we get to know who’s in it? Why is it that 538 people, chosen by the parties, get to pick the person who then gets to pick the people who interpret our laws?
How is that democratic? Do you feel represented knowing that someone, picked by a political party machine, can vote for who ever they want regardless of who the people vote for? Why do we even bother voting?
Makes me wonder why we are seeing a billion dollars spent on an election that only 538 people get to vote in. The rest is a dog and pony show, another tax on you and me, a transfer of wealth.
I’m not buying the public funding crap either. McCain got 84 million bucks from the tax payer. Where did we get that kind of money when we are 10 trillion in the hole?
With all the money in politics, and with no idea who is in the electoral college, how can we the people know who’s electing our president for us and how much they got payed to do it?
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