Being in other countries & being asked why, even though Clinton got more votes, Trump won, really drives home how broken our "democracy" is.
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Replying to @sarah_edo
These results don't look like "conservative government" to me. Lots of countries have weird first-past-the-post systems. :(pic.twitter.com/9pvVXrQR1b
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Replying to @wycats @sarah_edo
I'm seeing a lot of people in the US using "but it's bad in other countries too" as some kind of justification
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Replying to @jaffathecake @sarah_edo
there's no justification to a shitty system, but amnesia about UK having first-past-the-post does no good.
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Replying to @jaffathecake @sarah_edo
just lots of people not in the US talking about the electoral college as uniquely bizarre.
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Replying to @wycats
I didn't get that from
@sarah_edo's tweet. Also, in the screenshot you showed, CON won the popular vote too.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @jaffathecake @sarah_edo
it won a (small) plurality, but the people clearly didn't want CON.
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if, in the US, the greens got 25% and dems 30% and GOP 35%, a conservative government would be mega-WAT.
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Replying to @wycats @sarah_edo
that's a weird comparison as the UK got a coalition government as a result.
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in the example scenario, a GOP-led conservative government with dems in the coalition would be very wrong.
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