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  How totally bizarre that not one sane republican to stand up for America
context: We saw him explicitly do this in Helsinki in 2018. There was nothing suggestive about it. >
  
  Right? He basically said, "Why would Vlad lie?" and "Fuck the US Intelligence agencies". Dude's a traitor. >
  
  Half of the voters are too >
  
  Not quite half but your point isn’t lost on the failure that is the electoral college. >
  
  Failure? The electoral college works just as designed. It gives a disproportionate amount of voting power to rural whites, whom by design are often far less educated, experienced, and have a low level of critical thought. >
  
  The founding fathers only wanted the educated to vote and create the electoral college to weed out candidates exactly like Trump that didn't have the ethical/intellectual capabilities required of the office of president. Donald Trump and the acceptance of his stupidity, racism, and lack of morals is precisely what they wanted to prevent reaching the oval office. 
  They expected the house to expand to match the US population to prevent the types of over representation you currently are witnessing in the EC. Much like every aspect of modern politics, they didn't expect bad faith actors to exist, let alone thrive and garner support, in our political system. Blaming the founding fathers is inappropriate when the blame squarely lies within the GOP for allowing partisan buffoonery to prevent functional government. They've corrupted SCOTUS and will never relinquish the bastardized system that keeps them in power regardless of the intentions of the founding fathers and the US Constitution >
  
  
  Much like every aspect of modern politics, they didn't expect bad faith actors to exist, let alone thrive and garner support, in our political system.
  
  They literally talked about this all the time, and claimed to have designed the entire governmental system while being actively cognizant of it. They were wrong, and Marx pretty much explained why, but compared to the dominant governmental systems of Europe at the time, they were ahead of the curve.
  Let me ask you this, quite simply: if the founders didn't expect bad-faith actors to exist at all, then why didn't they just propose having a Philosopher King, just like Plato outlined in The Republic? No bad-faith actors, right? Just get the best guy you can find and give him all the power. That maximizes efficiency. Why bother with the inefficiency of elections at all when nobody responsible for picking the Philosopher King could possibly be a bad-faith actor either, because those don't exist? >
  
  They certainly warned us about partisanship and how it'd cripple our system, but they expected it to be the minority that'd be addressed through the appropriate means. They clearly outlined how to handle bad actors, through expulsion of congressional members and the electoral college. They had not planned for bad actors at every level and branch of our government. 
  They wanted to create a system of checks and balances specifically to address bad actors and foreign influence. The system is clearly imperfect, but every system of government fails under the principle of garbage in, garbage out. >
  
  That, right there, tells you all you need to know about Trump. He's a lowlife traitor.