Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: OT: "Every American"... Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 10:39:20 -0600 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <040220172024582549%leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> <2017020421343611825-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <040220172253106000%leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HkvkUWO8x5DcexKVUA2LDgASdq9nwW/9xb9E/vHabYWM6jaudZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:7F/Mez/X5p+V+aE1pAufsmQnLzY= User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:99576 On 2017-02-05 16:01:24 +0000, Happy.Hobo said: > On 2/5/17 7:53 AM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: >> lived in a democracy, and I pray that "one man, one vote" never becomes >> the law of the land. I don't want ten large liberal cities to run >> America in general and me in particular. I want the federal government >> to back off damned near everything. They are not my friend. It has > > The argument that we need the Electoral College so that four states > can't run the country is silly. None of those states votes 100%, and > even if they did, two of them vote opposite the other two. > > But I agree about backing off. I was rooting for Sanders, on the > hypothesis that Congress would give him nothing he wouldn't veto > and we'd all be left alone for a while. That Sanders did as well as he did in the primaries is evidence of what poor candidates were running. He wasn't a Democrat and he is more liberal than most Democrats are, yet he was seen as a viable alternative to Clinton. Of course the fix was in for Hillary and he never really stood a chance. If you do some reading on Sanders, he is an interesting guy. He has almost always been on the right side of history with his actual voting, but his rhetoric has always been more socialistic.