[pols, curr ev] Action: Petition the Electoral College
There is a Change.com petition to be presented to the Electoral College, asking them to make Clinton president instead of Trump. The goal is 5 million signatures, and they're just shy of 4.5 million right now.
Bizarrely, this is, in fact, the use case the Electoral College was built for: over-riding the results of the election if there is something really, really wrong with the winning candidate. Okay, admittedly, the original "really, really wrong" property was being opposed to slavery. But, nevertheless, its function was intended to be that of a circuit breaker on the democratic process. And here we are.
I don't have much hope that it will work. And please understand, if it does work - or if for any reason the Electoral College choses Clinton over Trump - that is going to give this country a big shove towards civil war.
I've signed it.
Given the choice between 1861 and 1933, I pick 1861. Better that we drench the US in blood up to our knees than that we unleash a Third World War, only this time the Nazis have nukes.
Bizarrely, this is, in fact, the use case the Electoral College was built for: over-riding the results of the election if there is something really, really wrong with the winning candidate. Okay, admittedly, the original "really, really wrong" property was being opposed to slavery. But, nevertheless, its function was intended to be that of a circuit breaker on the democratic process. And here we are.
I don't have much hope that it will work. And please understand, if it does work - or if for any reason the Electoral College choses Clinton over Trump - that is going to give this country a big shove towards civil war.
I've signed it.
Given the choice between 1861 and 1933, I pick 1861. Better that we drench the US in blood up to our knees than that we unleash a Third World War, only this time the Nazis have nukes.