The Democratic Party is a mess and needs a major remake. Very costly in time and effort. Also beating them up just produces a weakened, limp pile on the floor, unless you can put them to work to destroy the Slave State Electoral College method of electing presidents.
Two major disaster presidents were selected by the slave state Electoral College and enough is enough.
We are still paying for selecting Dubya and and his stupid invasion and occupation of Iraq. Now we are going to achieve even worse results with Trump — who was not elected by popular vote.
Rebuilding the Democratic will take a long time and will meet with a lot of resistance.
The Electoral College needs to be abolished. Now. I don’t give a damn if it’s in the Constitution. A lot of crap was written into the U.S. Constitution.
Constitutional concessions made to slaveholders:
….What should be done about the slave trade, the importing of new slaves into the United States? Ten states had already outlawed it. Many delegates heatedly denounced it. But the three states that allowed it — Georgia and the two Carolinas — threatened to leave the convention if the trade were banned. A special committee worked out another compromise: Congress would have the power to ban the slave trade, but not until 1800. The convention voted to extend the date to 1808.
A final major issue involving slavery confronted the delegates. Southern states wanted other states to return escaped slaves. The Articles of Confederation had not guaranteed this. But when Congress adopted the Northwest Ordinance, it a clause promising that slaves who escaped to the Northwest Territories would be returned to their owners. The delegates placed a similar fugitive slave clause in the Constitution. This was part of a deal with New England states. In exchange for the fugitive slave clause, the New England states got concessions on shipping and trade.
www.crf-usa.org/…
The Electoral College was one of the concessions make to slaveholders and is another outdated monument to slavery that must be torn down.
Don’t waste time beating up on Dems. Get rid of the God damned Electoral College. We cannot afford another Electoral College disaster.