We need to be more than anti-Trump... We also need to be anti-electoral college traitor

[ck4829]

I know I'm not the only person who will vote for any Democrat who promises to:

* Censure the electoral college members who voted for Trump as a start

* Bill the electoral college members who voted for Trump for any medical bills for any of their constituents who saw medical bills increased and/or medical services cut due to Trumpcare (Defined as 'repeal and replace', 'just repeal', or 'just let it fail')

* Legislate that the electoral college members who voted for Trump be held civilly responsible for any present and future Adam Purinton and James Alex Fields type attackers. They normalized Trump, Trump normalized this violence. Some blood is on their hands.

* Legislate that the electoral college members who voted for Trump be held civilly responsible for any mental discomfort or economic distress caused by Trump's travel ban/Muslim ban.

* Either mandate that electoral college members who voted for Trump provide transgender members of the armed forces employment with wages and benefits equal or similar to that of the armed forces or provide them lifelong compensation. This is on top of legislating that they will be responsible for providing for any medical treatments they require. They are culpable in the betrayal of these transgender soldiers.

Treason, in the form of appeasing Putin and placing the interests of people who want to wage war on the 'other'-American over those of law abiding non-Nazi citizens, should have consequences, right? So let's make this an issue.

[Demsrule86]

1. This is akin to tilting at windmills and average Americans here in Ohio don't care about the

electoral college. You may be one of a few who cares enough to vote for a person who espouses these views. And I would remind you that being anti-Obama gave the GOP every branch of government.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Agreed

Personally holding electors for doing a job that the Constitution calls on them to do is going nowhere. And all it takes is the thirteen smallest states to oppose any sort of constitutional amendment to abolish the EC to make sure it stays in the Constitution. We saw that with the ERA some forty years ago.

[Demsrule86]

9. Sadly true.

[tritsofme]

3. This is batshit crazy nonsense. That is all.

[FSogol]

5. +1. n/t

[MineralMan]

4. That's just silliness.

Please go read the Constitution. Seriously. Legislation cannot alter that document, nor the system of government it establishes.

An argument can be made for abolishing the Electoral College, but that would have to be done by amending the Constitution. Instructions can be found for doing that within the Constitution.

Please do yourself a favor and go read that document enough times so you understand what is in it.

[FakeNoose]

6. We have to fix gerrymandering abuse

If there's no more gerrymandering - the Electoral College isn't a problem.

The rightwingers stacked the deck in their favor by gerrymandering the shit out of the red states and many of the blue states.

Here's good demo, but it's happening everywhere, not just North Carolina:

[Expecting Rain]

7. Biggest load of nonsence I've read on this forum

And that's saying something.

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. I know this gets said a lot

But this actually is the silliest thing I have ever seen on DU.

And if you don't like my opinion, I suppose you're going to bill me.