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musicblind

(4,484 posts)
4. See, I really appreciate your response, because
Sat Dec 3, 2016, 03:12 PM
Dec 2016

your response is not an attempt to shout me down or discredit me, etc. Many of the naysayers on here just want to dismiss this entirely and treat people who want reform on this issue as "hypocrites" who wouldn't feel that way otherwise.

You are right about the optics.

What we could do to help counter that optic might be this: we don't stop fighting for this cause.

If we continue to fight for the cause, long after this election, or even the next election, etc... and with the same fervor and with the goal to educate... people might take us seriously on the matter.

If we were to fight for this during a time when the Electoral College might favor the democrats, though I don't know if it ever would, then we might be taken seriously.

And that's what we need to do.

My posts in 2008 and 2012 against the Electoral College were during a time that some though the EC might benefit us, and I felt that was a good time for us to try and fight against it.

We need to keep pushing and never give up?

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