Re: Why the electoral college is manifestly and obviously wrong and unjust

On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:16:47 -0700, Samuel Spade wrote: 
>Attila wrote:
>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:48:33 +0000, Mitchell Holman 
>> >   Instead it is run by billionaires and
>> >the lobbyists they pay. When was the public
>> >allowed to vote on a Trump International
>> >Airport or Alligator Alcatraz or the Golden
>> >Ballroom? 
>> Never.  We have a representative democracy and not a pure
>> democracy.

>Citizens get to vote on issues sometimes.  Legislatures may
>propose referendums for voter approval, not to mention local
>bond issues.  More enlightened states have citizen voter
>initiative processes.  This allows the people to take direct
>action on issues that elected reps are afraid to act upon.
>
>
>> BTW, Alligator Alcatraz is a state institution and no one
>> outside of Florida has any power over it unless the state
>> gives them temporary powers.
>
>Not so.  Congress by law required Alligator Auschwitz to do
>an environmental impact statement and get approval from EPA,
>Corps of Engineers, and probably other agencies.  The state
>didn't do it, and of course the Trump regime didn't care that
>they were acting illegally.  That's why a judge had to shut
>it down.

Additionally, Florida fronted the cost and has not been reimbursed by
Trump.  But then, Trump's failure to pay his bills a given.
 
>> The same is true for the  Trump International Airport. State
>> property.
>
>FAA, TSA, CBP, EPA, FCC, NTSB, DHS, FBI, Army Corps of
>Engineers, FEMA.
-- 
You may have noticed, while checking in on the G7, that Trump had 
to ask Zelensky for forgiveness and Macron fed him a plate of crow 
by using the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles as the setting for Trump 
to sign his capitulation.

In another globally witnessed humiliation, he was roundly snubbed at 
a group photo op.

Long ago, another agreement signed in Versailles failed horribly..

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