Brian Ross wrote on May 23
rd, 2019 at 1:15pm:
The American electoral system is sick and is slowly dying. The use of simplistic first-past-the-post voting coupled with the unfair electoral college system results in skewed outcomes like the 2016 election where the least popular candidate now sits in the Oval Office. The USA would be far better off if they moved to a preferential voting system and had a Parliamentary system. It would provide the people with a real voice for a change and allow them to put into the White House who they actually want, rather than el Presidente' Trump.
As more people become dependent on government handouts they will choose to vote for more free stuff and turn their backs on freedom.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
It is not the electoral system that is sick, it is the moral fiber of too many of it's citizens! I would guess the Progressives have led us to somewhere between selfishness and dependence. Welfare queens, drug dealers and gang bangers have a vote that is counted as much as those of honest citizens. They tend to concentrate in large cities. I feel my taxes are too high, they feel their free ride isn't good enough!
You call President Trump the least popular candidate but if you remove the votes for all candidates in the five boroughs of New York City and count the rest of the Country, he actually won the Popular vote! Another dirty trick the democrats have gotten away with is not counting the votes of US service people and their families outside of the Country! Regardless of where they serve, they are still considered citizens of their home State and retain all the same Right as though they currently reside there!