someoneintheshadow456: switch-up-snowfox:spookyscaryskeleton1:switch-up-snowfox:nunyabizni:1
someoneintheshadow456: switch-up-snowfox: spookyscaryskeleton1: switch-up-snowfox: nunyabizni: 1r3l4nd12: nunyabizni: 1r3l4nd12: nunyabizni: 1r3l4nd12: nunyabizni: 1r3l4nd12: ian-wins: dashas-hideous-laughter: More proof that this shilled account is an authoritarian nightmare that wants the whole country ruled by urbanites. That’s not true. Not at all. What is the electoral college vote?? It’s how the presidential election is done, winner take all for the states electoral votes which correspond to the number of state representatives they have which are assigned by population, well for the House every state gets 2 Senators so there’s some evenness there.But yeah, this guy doesn’t quite get the 3/5 compromise, it was more about congressional representation than electoral votes those were just gravy at that point since the federal government at that time was actually sticking to it’s constitutionally granted authorities instead of poking it’s nose into state’s business.3/5 compromise is 1 slave equals 3/5 of a person for the purpose of the census and assigning of congressional seats for that particular state.Slave states refused to sign on to the formation of the country without it being included. It’s very confusing for me. Could be I just don’t comprehend it well or it’s just confusing. No, it’s confusing.Short version is that each state gets representatives in the federal government that reflect that states population, the number of representatives you have is also the number of electoral votes they get.Personally speaking I’d like to see the Fed up the number of seats in the House because there is no easy way for the average person to get a word to their congressperson because they represent way too many people.UK has 68 million people and 650 members in the house of commons, US has 330 million people and 435 congressional seats.People are wildly underrepresented at the individual level over here. Oh that makes a little more senses. Ireland has TDs basically they a representatives for the local county. A neighbour to my parents ran last time. Don’t ask me how many are there. I’m only starting to learn ours and I don’t actually think anyone in Ireland really knows how our government works. Looks like y'all are a constitutional republic with a parliamentary setup, same as much of Europe has. UK is a touch different because royalty and no president.And again the US is beat down on individual representation you have 60 in what looks like it would be about the same as out Senate (Seanad Éireann) and 160 in the Dáil Éireann which is the same as out house of representatives. With 5 million people, that’s just embarrassing for us over here in my opinion First off, it’s so nice seeing you talk about our government by actual names cause you are cool and know your stuff. Wait is our set up better? I’m new to politics and still learning every day. I cheated and used wikipedia for names and numbers, but felt it only right to use the proper names since they were available and easy to find. The setup is basically the same, the big issue I have with the US’s comes down to how many people each representative is supposed to represent. You’ve got 160 people representing 5 million ish people. Quick math 5,000,000/160 = 31250. So each elected representative is accountable to 31,250 people, or thereabouts. We’ve got 435 people representing 330 million ish people. More quick math 330000000/435 = 758621 rounding up the decimal each elected representative is accountable to 758,621 people, or thereabouts. Again with the quick math 758621/31250 = 24 rounding down, for every 1 person represented by a member of the Dáil Éireann in RoI there are 24 being represented by a member of congress in the US. It’d be silly to try and get to the same level you guys are at, but bringing it down to half million to 1 would be nice. The most i can tell you about the electoral college is that California has one of the biggest populations in the country but is so culturally separated from the rest of the US that a load of people responded to jokes/rumors of a “calexit” with some variation of “good, we don’t want you.” To be fair, it *would* be nothing but a net positive if California was physically removed from the United States. I don’t disagree. One of the things originating from California was “mansplaining.” It’s a behaviour actually endemic to men from Silicon Valley and the women living there managed to convince impressionable people that it’s universal to all men. When I first read about mansplaining I was laughing at them because I had never seen a man behave like that - in India or the USA. I have seen smart-ass middle school BOYS act that way, but never men, because they grow out of it. I visited LA for the first time however and saw it everywhere, including in my own male cousin and he thinks this behaviour is normal. Then I understood. -- source link