OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
5hr ago
Democrats also reject the legitimacy of elections, though with less concrete explanations of what would make them more comfortable with them.
For Trump, it was Russian Collusion. Bush was "Selected, not Elected.". In smaller elections there are complaints about voter suppression. Locally there was a big kerfuffle that State funding got pulled to send out extra busses to bring people to poll locations on Election Day.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
7hr ago
Yes! The point is, more than the Lizardman Constant truly believes that there was fraud, when our system only works when we all agree that voting is fair and honest. Both sides need to bend over backwards to make sure that everyone has faith in our elections because that is the only way we keep the ship running.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
7hr ago
At least the version I heard in school:
In the American past, there was a group of people (Freed descendants of African slaves) who had a legal right to vote but the people running the voting booths did not want them voting. They created lots of ways to prevent this group of people from voting:
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Some created tests with a mix of hard and easy questions, and required someone had to answer five random questions correctly. Naturally the people running the voting booth would make sure the easy questions were given to people they liked, and the hard questions to people they didn't like.
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Others skipped the test and made a "Poll tax" which was set in a way that most African Americans could not pay.
This was frowned upon by the rest of America and some severe and broad laws were passed to make it impossible to require someone to pay money or to take a test in order to vote.
Democrats complain that most Government Forms of ID require paying a small amount of money to discourage people from losing theirs and to help offset the costs of printing the card and maintaining the ID system. Voter ID is then associated with a Poll Tax, which we all learned in school is Racist and Bad.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
8hr ago
There have been times where one party or the other sweeps the election, but the response is for the opposite party to adjust it's positions. Each party has the incentive to adapt their positions to the electorate, and because they are both doing this at the same time naturally it falls to around a 50/50 split. It's actually more like a 33% split because there's also a third of people who feel cut out of the process, are too apathetic or too adverse to both parties, and don't vote.
Given that we have more real-time feedback with internet sentiment and good polls, the parties adjust much faster now and it is unlikely there will be a sweep again.
That said, the real mystery is why the two parties are so different from each other. Or are they?
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
8hr ago
Someone who cannot read The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation is not a literate American.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
13hr ago
Or because they got government contracts to mass produce a bad product before there was any market feedback.
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🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
13hr ago
Things change when you're in a pressurized cabin designed to be as lightweight as possible. Which is also what gives us hope for space swords in the distant future!
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
23hr ago
There are copilots who should prevent this as much as possible, but realistically what would the average passenger do? A determined pilot could dive down faster than a passenger could react.
Huh. Don't all the passengers get the bends when that happens though? Recoverable if there are enough hyperbaric chambers, but still seems unpleasant.
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