During my American Politics class today, we were talking about the Electoral College and how it is a DANGER TO DEMOCRACY!!! The leftists loved it, the teacher enjoyed spewing the garbage, and I sat there dumbfounded. I think it is safe to say that the left wants to get rid of the Electoral College and the right wants to preserve it (like any sane human being).
After being so tired of hearing the Electoral College bashing, I decided to speak up. I brought up the fact that (using NY as an example) considering almost the entirety of NYS votes red but there's one tiny part of NY that harbors the most amount of people in the state, and it votes blue, which causes the ENTIRE state to vote blue. I also mentioned a big reason the Electoral College exists is so large populations in certain states don't control the entire election. If you abolish the Electoral College, California and New York will run every single election. Campaigning targets will shift. And nobody will care about the important issues facing certain states. Once I mentioned everything above, the entire class was silent. They had no rebuttal. The teacher then said "thank you for bringing that up, we will revisit it later." (It was not revisited later.)
So class ended and I was feeling good. I just stumped the entire class! But it gets better. I received an email from my teacher and it said THIS: (Keep in mind my teacher is VERY MUCH A LEFTIST)
Just a quick note to say thank you for your comment today. You are absolutely right about the points you made and I feel badly as your teacher that I didn't bring them up first. You are quite correct in your statements and they added a necessary counterpoint to the discussion. Thank you for speaking up.
A leftist admitting a conservative is right about something is YUUUUUUUGE in the redpilling process. I can't wait for more chances at tossing those redpills around.
That's it for now, pedes! There will definitely be more stories to come.
When I went to grade school, 5th grade was all about learning stuff from the American Revolution, Pilgrims, the name and capital of every state and how to find them on a map, that sort of thing. 6th grade we learned all about the Constitution, Declaration of Independence (including memorizing the preamble to each), the Electoral College, the allocation of senators and congress critters, governors, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and checks and balances. This was completely normal and of course we always said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning all during grade school and all through high school.
My 6th grade teacher brought up Watergate (which was very much still a developing story, the '72 election season was in full swing) and tried to blue-pill us students over how terrible of a scandal it was. The class was like "Sure doesn't sound like it's that big compared to all the other scandals we've learned about." Then she never mentioned it again, pretty sure this got out and her politicking in class ended then and there.
Watergate was just the democrats saying "Fuck it, Nixon won in a huge landslide and we are going to burn this mother fucker down." Sound familiar?
When I was in school it was still one of the core basics of 6th grade Civics. 6th Grade. Civics. Let that sink in.
Hello fellow old fart. :-D
Farting with you.....We knew what the electoral college was all about