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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016

      ok so this "the electoral college should refuse to vote for trump, fulfilling its purpose as envisioned by the founders" meme going around

      9 replies 11 retweets 31 likes
    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      the safeguards the founders envisioned are gone. this is pure partisanship, completely out of step w/ past two centuries of american history

      3 replies 10 retweets 38 likes
    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      besides the college, the founders also set up the senate to serve as a check against the wild, inflamed passions of populism

      2 replies 2 retweets 17 likes
    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      they expected the house to follow the whims of the public, with its two-year terms and direct elections, and the senate to be a bulwark of..

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      ...sanity, with its six-year terms and *appointment by state legislatures*. but we got rid of that. undemocratic

      1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      mind, the founders put all these safeguards in place because they didn't trust their chosen electorate: white male landowners over 21

      1 reply 6 retweets 25 likes
      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016

      and since then we have expanded the franchise again and again. more democratic this way, see. the old ways are popularly viewed as unjust

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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          most states allow convicted felons to vote, several even while they are still imprisoned. but the colonists had brought over the english...

          1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          ...concept of "civil death", which wiped out most rights of convicts for *life*. this stood until the mid-20th century

          2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          we've been phasing out caucuses and replacing them with primaries because democracy. nowadays a brokered convention would be a major scandal

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
        5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          (we even had resident alien voting for much of the 19th century, until it was rolled back during/after world war one. original citizenship..

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
        6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          ... requirements date to war of 1812--remember, adams's alien act increased the residency period, alien voting was a given)

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        7. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          anyway, the electoral college is purely ceremonial now, and demanding it act is to demand a very different form of government than we have

          2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
        8. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          nevermind that this would almost certainly trigger a civil war as the various departments gather behind their chosen pretenders

          1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
        9. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          oh and remember servicemen were about split between trump and *johnson*, with clinton a distant third, so good luck with that

          1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
        10. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          really I vastly discount the impact popular will has on politics, see mostly rule by various alphabet agencies and executive branch staffers

          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
        11. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          but appealing to the college under "muh founders" is antithetical to the past two centuries of enfranchisement and removal of safeguards

          3 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
        12. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy 11 Nov 2016
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          better to at least be honest and say "voting is bad and we want off this ride." till then, democracy, good and hard

          3 replies 1 retweet 20 likes
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