We won the pop vote by 2,500,000 and lost E C vote by less than 100,000.

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5. What the EC was purportedly designed to PREVENT has HAPPENED in spite of it.

Get rid of the goddamned thing already.

HRC WON. Full stop.

It's easy to sit there and say "too bad. so sad." to those who will lose their lives, health, savings, homes under this sociopath. Millions are going to lose healthcare, now and in the future (Medicare and Medicaid) and ALL OF US may lose our social security or suffer devastating cuts to the program that are totally unnecessary and that we un-wealthy can ill afford. There is NO WAY to underestimate the economic damage and destitution this will cause. I suspect you and many here on DU aren't old enough to remember what the Great Depression was like, or what life was like for seniors before Medicare and Social Security. You simply have NO CONTEXT within which to view what is likely to now happen.

EVERY GAIN ordinary Americans have made in the past 75-80 years -- EVERYTHING that has been designed to improve our lives and which has in fact improved millions of lives in the US -- is being TAKEN AWAY and we will have to re-fight twice as hard as the first time to get any of it back.

So excuse me if pithy phrases like "oh la de da we lost too bad so sad" just don't cut it.

MANY LIVES ARE NOW RUINED (even if some of them don't yet realize it) because of this goddamned out-of-date and useless EC system which has RESULTED in an outcome which it was specifically designed to PREVENT. It has done this TWICE. It is BROKEN and it needs to GO.