Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Garbage in, garbage out. Our "garbage" is the electoral college. Ripe for a "landfill" amendment. Dump it.

 Biden says his remark was aimed at the Trump Garden rally people.

Accept it. Or don't.

If voting from here to election day hinges upon that situation, where Pueto Rico was called garbage by a "comedian," and Biden replied, with Trump/Vance in a phony snit, taking false umbrage and all, if that, then we are less as a people wanting to show sound judgment than we could be.

That a campaign bloated by money, both sides, could hinge on a Biden comment is a sign of something. What exactly, is unclear.

This seems a crazier election than others have been, Musk committing, Bezos deferring, Soros family still being hob goblins to the right while the right is having and ignoring their own caricatures.

A GOTV tool for Trump/Vance is what it is. They will stretch things as they can.

Going to criticize the level of hangers-on, vs voters, is one thing. It seems unlikely Biden would have called any presently deciding voters anything but citizens, so, his history shows, even when presiding over the Clarence Thomas nomination and not really being fair to Anita Hill, even that was a judgment among Senators, and not a reflection on voters.

But Biden said what he said. Things will sort out, possibly Trump winning, possibly Harris. Neither strongly moves me, but I regard Harris as less of a risk, less a loose cannon on deck, than Trump. It reaches a willingness to accept either for atop the nation over the next four years. Not that I have a choice. A vote is all I am allowed.

 I support Harris and have already voted for her.

We shall see how the nation votes, and independent of that the electoral college needs to be reformed, however the votes fall. The reform will not likely happen in my lifetime. But it has to ultimately happen. Politics of 1789 are irrelevant to today, and the broom is needed.

Stream of consciousness reflections come down to what relevance can any honest American suggest as cause to have the electoral college now, beyond it's there, and some benefit unfairly and will fight to keep the unfairness. One person, one vote, the equality of each person's vote wherever in the US of A they reside seems to be a clear choice, if fairness is the measure. It is not the measure we endure.

Either election outcome, we will not somehow lose our nationhood or rule of law unless a majority of people feel rule of law has favored power and money and believe they have a roadmap to change that. They don't, Trump is no roadmap to anything better, we'll suffer if he wins, but we'll survive. It is not "existential," a word bandied about now, falsely. It's an emotion-charged election, worse so than others we have had. Which is bad enough.

However, after Trump and co-conspirators schemed in 2020 to game the electoral college, that alone is cause to turn post-election to it, and hopefully to end it.