Hillary has conceded.
Come to that, so has Obama.
The irony is she is ahead and still expected to win in the popular vote.
She will not be president only because the Electoral College chooses the president, with electors in nearly all the states chosen by the rule that all go to the winner in that state's popular vote.
Once you have enough votes in a state to get all its electors, all additional votes for you in that state are wasted.
They would have done you some good in other states where you lost only by a little.
Of course, the Electors could still save us from The Duce and choose Hillary on the plea that she is the popular vote victor and anything else would be a slap in the face of democracy and the people; but they won't.
And if they tried the Supremes would announce that faithlessness of Electors is in fact unconstitutional, though of course it is not.
It is absolutely out of the question, in any case, that the Republicans or the supporters of The Duce would accept that.
And probably the entire political establishment, Hillary and most Democrats included, would reject it.
So we need to remember.
Not every Italian was a Fascist on October 28, 1922, or at any time thereafter
Not every German was a Nazi on January 30, 1933, or at any time thereafter.
Not every Spaniard was a Nationalist on April 1, 1939, or at any time thereafter.
At no time was every Russian a Bolshevik.
To live in profoundest opposition is possible.
A kind of internal exile familiar to people who have lived through Latin American dictatorships, too.
Oh, Scott L thinks we should get rid of the Electoral College.
The Electoral College - and the states' equal representation in the senate - effectively rig the system to disproportionately empower the voters of red states full of Trump and GOP loving white and rural folks.
Real Americans, in other words.
And that plus Article V are why we won't get rid of it.
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