by Amna El Tawil
Throughout the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton claimed she would accept the results. Well, that was probably because she thought she’d win so felt that saying that would make her seem a better person. The election day came along, she lost, big time, and guess what, neither she nor her supporters accepted those results. They pushed for the recount in a few states that only showed Donald Trump was undercounted. Then, they tried to blame the loss on Russia and cyber attacks. FBI, CIA, were also blamed. But wait, that’s not all; they also blamed the Electoral College and branded them, racists.
Hillary Clinton wanted to make history this time, and SHE DID. She became the fifth candidate to lose an election by being defeated in the Electoral College, despite winning the popular vote. In the 240-year history, that’s a rare occurrence. Congratulations, Hillary! However, her supporters threw a major tantrum.
After all, all the media said she would win, precious Obama said Hillary is the most qualified candidate so her victory is logical, Clinton also won the popular vote. So, how come she’s not the incoming president of the United States? Newsflash! It’s because things don’t work like that! The Electoral College exists for a reason and in more than 200 years, their votes didn’t cause such a hysteria like they did in 2016.
According to Hillary Clinton’s supporters, electors voted for Trump because they’re racist! It all started in November on Slate which published an article called The Electoral College Is an Instrument of White Supremacy—and Sexism. The author of the article, Mark Joseph Stern, claims that “the Electoral College is one of the structures that is, from the roots up, fundamentally complicit in the suppression of minority rights.”
Stern also alleges “Most of us are taught that the Electoral College was designed to dilute democracy by forcing voters to choose independent electors, who then chose a president. That is true, but it’s only part of the story. The system was also designed to accommodate and preserve slavery, the ultimate tool of white supremacy—and later served to delay universal women’s suffrage. Today, that first justification is irrelevant, since electors are generally no longer independent. But the second remains all too relevant, because, in its current form, the Electoral College continues to dilute the votes of minority voters.”
And of course, he calls for the abolition of the Electoral College, something that exists in the US for more than two centuries: “States are a collection of human people, not electors, and the president they choose represents all of them. Abolishing the Electoral College would be a good way to recognize this basic fact of a modern constitutional democracy.”
Stern isn’t the only butthurt Clinton supporter who lives in a fantasy land where all things are only black and white without any hue in between. After the Electoral College once again confirmed Trump’s victory, they’re branded racists.
Just a few hours after Trump topped the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted: “Hello rest of the world! My fellow Americans are asleep right now so I thought we could talk and maybe explain what happened yesterday.” He also added: “Yes, it is ironic that this racist idea, the Electoral College, 225 years later ended up benefiting the candidate who spewed racism hate.”
1. Hello rest of the world! My fellow Americans are asleep right now so I thought we could talk &maybe I can explain what happened yesterday
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
2. Hillary Clinton won the election on Nov 8 by 2.8 million votes over Donald Trump. Which is to say, she lost. U r right, not a democracy.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
3. In the 1700s, 2 get the slave states 2 join the USA, those states got “extra votes” letting them count their slaves but not let them vote
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
4. Yes, it is ironic that this racist idea, the Electoral College, 225 years later ended up benefiting the candidate who spewed racism hate.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
5. Trump is not president until 12 noon on Jan 20th. So we’ll continue to fight & hope to find a legal, nonviolent way to stop this madness.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
6. Ok, people are starting to wake up in the US. I wish I could give u better news. As bad as it seems, it will be worse. We are broken.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 20, 2016
The New York Times claims the Electoral College “is more than just a vestige of the founding era; it is a living symbol of America’s original sin.”
However, Hans von Spakovsky, a conservative scholar of election law at the Heritage Foundation, told the Washington Examiner: “The whole point of the Electoral College was an effort by the founders to balance large states versus small states because of the fact that we are a federal republic. They were afraid that if the president were elected simply by the national popular vote, then candidates would simply go to the big urban areas and ignore the more rural parts of the country. Latching onto this claim, that ‘Oh it must be racism,’ is just ridiculous. All you have to do is look at a map that breaks down the entire country by counties and you can see that Donald Trump’s support was countrywide whereas Hillary Clinton’s support was in very narrow geographical areas of the country.”
Well, partner, I have to say that hearing/reading this it just confirms what Solomon said centuries ago, “Nothing is new under the sun.” These folks are the racists and they are doing the bidding of their racist king…. and I don’t mean hitlery…. Thanks for posting this… Pray, prep and protect ’cause if this is an example of the mindset of most of these demagogues there is bound to be some hellish times ahead…
DAS RAYCISS!!!—Derp
President Obama had 8 years to change this but as it served him and his handlers well for 2 terms it was left alone.
why would we change it?! Then only the most populated states like California and New York would determine our elections. No thank you. Besides we are a Constitutional Republic NOT a democracy where people decide elections and policies directly…
ROFLMAO i really wish they would drop that killary won the popular vote nonsense. its been proven she did not. time to stop repeating yet another lie!. lol and the recount demand really uncovered a huge mess of democratic vote tampering. lol
I didn’t hear that a hole complaining when Sanders really won the popular vote while Clinton stole the electoral vote from him … fat boy and the DNC wreak with hypocrisy. Clinton tried to steal this election and fail. She’s jealous because the RNC was able to steal elections in the past and she could not.
Why anyone in their right mind would follow such a mindless, fat blob of crap is beyond me…
Take away California, and Trump won the popular vote for the rest of the country.
Hillary is president of California! Take away Los Angeles, nuff’ said.
Michael Moore doesn’t talk about getting rid of “super delegates”, is that democracy mikey?
When I see black Americans, voting for a party whose legacy is the KKK, it really shows just how cunning, racist slobs like Michael Moore can be at duping “black folks”. Moore should talk about secession if he believes in democracy. California could install their corporate fist puppet without even voting.
The Democrats of 2016 are the same as the Democrats of 1866, instead of hoods, they were expensive suits, smile, hand you an EBT card, build you a ghetto so you know your place, and call it “equality”.
Thomas Sowell Affirmative Action (THUG LIFE remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myndCNcwV54