What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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crazy canuck

Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 10, 2026, 04:43:42 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 10, 2026, 12:45:16 PMNo, that's not democracy. That's chaos.

I know that Canadians have somewhat more of a reputation for orderliness than Americans, but this is a bit much.  In my town we had a hotly contested election for town council - with 2 seats up, it was very close for who was getting the second seat.  It took a few days for all the mail ballots to come in.  The results are still listed as unofficial.  There is no panic in the streets.  No one is complaining.  As problems go, this one ranks really, really low.

OK, but we're not talking about town council elections are we?

It is odd that you live in a country that has 50 different sets of rules for how federal politicians will be elected. One country 50 different sets of rules.  That's just bizarre.
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I've never experienced in my own moving from state to state any confusion at all. In every state I've lived in, mail-in ballots had to be posted by midnight on election day. The chaos CC imagines is utterly absent.
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My take: Would it be easier? Sure. Is it necessary? No. Would the process be used to do something absolutely horrible and anti-democratic if it were changed these days? Odds are.
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