Milesnmiles
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I think it's just you feel that way because, you don't like the fact that he is President, and reading too much into it.
You just don't like he chose inauguration day, because you don't like him as President.
But to me, he wants to bring the country together, and that is a good day to mark the start of it.
If he had any interest in bringing the country together, he wouldn't be doing things that are actively pissing people off.
The way you bring people together is by compromising and finding common ground-- not doing whatever you want and expecting everyone to love you for it.
I don't know how anyone with basic social skills could not know this.
Actually, what he is doing is keeping his promises.
He threw out his ideas of what he wanted to do during the election. People's vote for him IS Majority nodding to him to continue.
So why should he worry about the pissed off loud minority. Fact is, majority states voted for him.
Even IF he lost the popular vote, but you also gotta consider, voter turn out. There are many who did not vote at all. And you don't know where they are on this issue since they are supporting neither party.
The popular vote is the majority of VOTERS.
The EC vote is about a majority of representatives who have been elected based on a first past the post system.
Neither result represents the will of the majority of Americans, and I would even suggest that neither do any of the major political parties.
The American political system is one of the least democratic in the Western world-- and it's made even worse by voter suppression and apathy.
Your system is much worse, of course... but America's is still bad enough for all of this 'the people have spoken' shit to be utterly false, and every time you say shit like this it is obvious you don't know what you're talking about.
Every four years Americans choose one of two not-so-great to horrible options, and then convince themselves that they agree with the result if their team wins, and do the opposite if their team loses. Usually, terrible things happen, but they are all acceptable given the context and the options available.
On top of this, he doesn't even fucking represent what people who voted for him think he represents, because they didn't know what they were voting for, because he is a liar... a bad one. I feel sorry for people who voted for him, because they are either really desperate, really stupid or just plain lost.
Keeping his promises will have terrible results. Breaking his promises will probably also have terrible results, because he is clueless. He is the worst thing that has happened to American politics in my lifetime.
Regardless of who is President at this time, I feel the two party system we now have needs to be modified. Because lately the choices they make seem to be bad ones.
Two election days would be better. A first election with everybody who wants to be President on the ballot and a second election with just the top two or three candidates on the ballot from the first election. That way there would be a better chance of electing a true people's President and not just another man that toes the party line.
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