Today is Election Day in America

in #politics12 days ago

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If you didn't know already, today is election day in the United States of America. It's a hotly contested race, and thank God it's coming to an end.

Trump and Kamala are squaring off, and people are on edge here. There is concern about civil unrest, and some states have preemptively deployed the national guard to assist with any potential problems.

Make sure you exercise your civic duty and get out there to vote. Be peaceful and don't make your entire identity the person who is in the White House. It's much bigger than that. We need to be united and we need to use our minds and words to keep this great nation going. No need for any violence or any infighting. It is what it is. I have my preferred candidate and I'm voting today after work to do my part.

Keep the peace and exercise your rights that many died to establish and to preserve. Whoever makes it to the White House will have huge shoes to fill. Be peaceful and careful when you're out there. The United States is a representative democracy, and the Electoral College plays a huge role so the most popular candidate may not win.

God bless America.

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The United States is a representative democracy, and the Electoral College plays a huge role so the most popular candidate may not win.

The statement above is correct about the Electoral College, but the US is (or is supposed to be) a Representative Republic.

We "democratically" elect our representatives, but we are not a "democracy" as it is the representatives that make the decisions, not the "rule of the people" directly. More like "rule of the democratically elected representatives". Representatives vote the will of the majority, state by state, but the people cannot vote directly for president. SHOCK!

Might seem like splitting hairs, same thing, who cares, just technicalities, but there is an important distinction: a "Representative Democracy" would determine it's leaders by POPULAR VOTE, while a "Representative Republic" would determine it's leaders by decision of the individual STATES, specifically by the votes of our Representatives, determined by popular vote in that STATE. So it's really 50 individual popular vote elections happening all at once, determining how the representatives will vote on January 6th. And THEY get to vote for president. We just get to tell them how to vote!

I just learned all this myself, so I'm refreshing my own mind with this. :-)