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BlueTsunami2018

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21. Yeah they did.

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 03:22 PM

Oct 2025

That’s why they didn’t want direct democracy for the masses, didn’t want anyone except white, male, landowners voting and that’s also why they installed the electoral college. That was supposed to be the last bastion against a demagogue being allowed to take office.

That didn’t work out.

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