The United States does not negotiate with terrorists.
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This is so silly.
Negotiating with terrorists? No. This is the checks and balances that the federal government was designed around. Yes, if the president wants to borrow more money then he has to negotiate with the democratic process to obtain that permission.
To call this terrorism is pretty much the same as calling, I don't know, McDonald's negotiating with terrorists because I don't want to pay $5 for a Big Mac.
Yeah. That description is just that out there.
I'm sorry, if the president wants to borrow a ton of money on the credit of the United States then he does need to go to our representatives and negotiates to get that authority.
I'm sorry that might be hard for him. Welcome to democracy though.
If we had a Republican party that was not blatantly anti-democracy, I would agree. But, alas...
The Republican party is literally voted for by people, it is literally a democratic result whether for better or worse.
It's really funny to say that the way people vote is not democratic.
We have structural problems that have been exploited. Electoral College (with almost fake electors!), gerrymandering, laws that disenfranchise poor and people of color. And then there’s the outright lying, cheating, and stealing. The system relies upon good faith; today’s Republicans have none.
Uh huh
And yet, even with all of the things that you listed there, that remains a democratic process. It remains actual humans, actual constituents, voting through democratic processes for these results.
I know you might not like it. But that's the thing about democracy: It really stinks that other people don't agree with you, but in democracy, other people get a say.
If you want to say that elections are stolen and all of that stuff, you can go down that road, but I don't think that's a particularly fruitful direction to go. You just end up sounding like Trump. It's not a good look.
Except it’s supposed to be majority rule, rather than minority tyranny.
And it is majority rule as throughout the country officials are elected based on majorities, and in both chambers of the US Congress processes proceed based on majority votes.
Yeah? Now tell us about the price of tea in China, as they say :)
Presidents are elected by majorities of the EC, not by majorities of people. Like many other parts of the US system it's structured based on majority of representation, not population, for very good reasons.
Popular vote has nothing to do with presidencies. They don't get to override the majority rule of electors.
@volkris
The last Republican U.S. president who also won the popular vote was George W. Bush in 2004.