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forthemiddle

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6. Exactly

Reply to NobodyHere (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 31, 2016, 05:46 PM

Dec 2016

We are the United STATES of America.
We are first governed at a local city level, then on to County, then on to State, and finally Federally.
We do not live in a Federally controlled Country. Although Federal law is Supreme, we still always start at the most basic level.
The reason is that we are self-governed, as it should be.

The President is based on popular vote, the popular vote of your State. And I personally, like it just the way it is. Even though for the first time since Reagan my state went Red, I still like that I get a vote, and that the popular vote of my neighbors are representing me!

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How are voters ever to learn to be good citizens in an antidemocratic system? [View all] eniwetok Dec 2016 OP

Let's start with going back to basics Retrograde Dec 2016 #1

Several years back? pangaia Dec 2016 #3

I know the argument... but it's deeply flawed eniwetok Jan 2017 #14

Because deist99 Dec 2016 #2

I have my facts straight... eniwetok Dec 2016 #5

Because otherwise we would have no country at all NobodyHere Dec 2016 #8

And the slave states wouldn't have signed on without provisions protecting slavery. n/t JustinL Dec 2016 #9

Sure... eniwetok Jan 2017 #13

so you agree that the Constitution set the politics of 1787 in cement? eniwetok Jan 2017 #10

You do know how this country was put together right? NobodyHere Dec 2016 #4

Exactly forthemiddle Dec 2016 #6

curious definition of "self-governed" eniwetok Jan 2017 #11

We The People... eniwetok Jan 2017 #12

but the Presidency is a national office JustinL Jan 2017 #17

state vs federal eniwetok Jan 2017 #23

we have to stop being victimized by the politics of 1787 eniwetok Dec 2016 #7

Yup, the popular vote was compromised away eniwetok Jan 2017 #15

Serious change starts at the local level. Initech Jan 2017 #16

the problem with thinking change starts at the local level eniwetok Jan 2017 #25

The vote is lost. For good. You won't get it back with voting. McCamy Taylor Jan 2017 #18

PS Democracy died in 2010 with Citizens United. Most folks just didn't realize it at the time. McCamy Taylor Jan 2017 #19

sorry.... CU may not have mattered eniwetok Jan 2017 #21

Forget democratic, is our government today even representative of the people? ck4829 Jan 2017 #20

the only way government can represent the people eniwetok Jan 2017 #26

teach civics...teach civics...teach civics annabanana Jan 2017 #22

what good is civics if the system is not responsive to the People? eniwetok Jan 2017 #24

The crappy electoral system is the core of the US' political failings: DetlefK Jan 2017 #27

our system can create contempt between natural allies. eniwetok Jan 2017 #28