Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

[Tubey]

Presumably the definition is taken from the Constitution, which seems a bit clumsy given the separation of Southern States.

"We the People... well, the People we class as People at the moment anyway..."

 

[Sassy Colombian]

The French invented democracy.

That's what my brother's wife claims every time I see her

 

[tsubaki]

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

it isn't - the existence of slavery within the country (the US) precludes the idea of a democracy, and makes one of their distinction (a majority of adult males being able to vote) being moot

Amen

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

The French invented democracy.

Cleisthenes does not like this post.

 

[tsubaki]

national SOCIALISTS, LL! the clue is in the name!!!!1one

 

[Tubey]

Not sure on the US process for deselection but... do that. Immediately.

Horrendous.

 

[riddick]

I shudder to raise this but iirc the President has floor privileges and can go down and appear on the floor of Congress when they restart the vote.

He actually doesn't. Speaker of the house has control.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Yeah was looking into it then; if you're going to stop counting the UK at 1885 then you can't start the US earlier for the reasons you state.

Very US-centric way of doing it. Arrogant really.

Almost an enigma code approach.

 

[RAFUH]

Yes I liked him, shame about his minority though.

Soon to be Majority leader

 

[tsubaki]

CNN just showed a video of that woman getting shot dead

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Soon to be Majority leader

Yes that is what I said, I tipped him for big things as soon as I saw him.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Absolutely - in fact if you look at the early part of the US (1828 for example) the total population was 12 million, with 2 million slaves. Meanwhile, 1.1 million voted in the 1828 election. Compare this to the 1832 general election here, where 16 million people resulted in 800k votes - the difference is not that great, even though many people here couldn't vote because of property restrictions.

Let us not forget the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Anyway... What an extraordinary time to be in America.

America: you deserve better than Trump. I'm glad that what has had the potential to become very violent has seemingly passed without being much worse.

Lots of healing needed from the country and perhaps some reflection on what populism and unquestionable partisanship can bring.

I'm ashamed at how eager successive UK governments have been to curry his favour and pander to his ego.