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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, I'll bite and play along with this 10 year old, even though I should be outside exercising today, and so should you, OP.

The US is not a democracy. The United States is a republic.

We'll wait while you go look up the difference. Please come back with a well-crafted paragraph demonstrating your understanding, and we'll go from there in this discussion.

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Typical republican half assed crap. We are democracy and a republic. They are not mutually exclusive. Republic : Power isn't transferred by hierarchy or lineage. Democracy: Rule of the people by the people for the people.

Our democracy is structurally flawed due to slavery era EC which was created by the southern politicians to count the black votes without giving them the vote. Even then the blacks were only counted as 60% of white man.
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Slavery was wrong and awful.  The South wanted the slaves counted as a full person.  Why?  So, they would have more Representatives in Congress.  The North said "no."  So, the compromise was 3/5th.  Of course, it's hard to defend either side on this one.

This, however, has nothing to do with the Electoral College.  That was devised to keep the states with large populations from controlling everything.  It is a common sense solution.  Otherwise, the people in the very large coastal cities would have total control over almost all policies.  That is also why we have a bicameral Congress.[/quote]

BS, Then what is the need to bargain the black man as 60% of white man? The south will lose every single election if black men aren't given the vote because the north had so many more white men and fewer blacks. So the south has to find a way to count the black votes WITHOUT giving them the vote. ERGO EC was created as a bargain.

The south ofcourse lied about the reason for the creation of EC as state rights. IT IS STATE RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH TO COUNT THE BLACK PERSON WITHOUT THE VOTE. This is the truth. No other explanation will fully explain the conundrum of HOW TO COUNT THE BLACKS IN ELECTION without giving them the vote.

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