Election Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics #36
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Jimmy
I've said for years I believe elections are pointless because I believe the next president is picked before anyone publicly announces they're running and everything from that point on is a show put on for the American people. I believe Trump was picked before hand, Hillary knew this all along and because of the show they put on for the 2016 election was so decisive they decided to keep it going straight through til 2020. Elections are nothing but a very well written and staged reality TV show, this one is just more intense with plot twists to keep people interested in their show keeping them blind to what really goes on, they even go as far as arresting people who have actually committed crimes, using them in their plot twists making it seem all that much more realistic. Other then all this since 2016 think back as far as you can to all the times and official was caught committing crimes, when I do i remember that regardless how big or deprived the criminal actions were 95% of those crimes resulted in nothing more then asking yes asking that official to resign, 4% of crimes committed by official were made a big story in the news for 1 to 3 days then nothing more said and letting those officials continue to do there jobs without any repercussions and the last 1% are actually charged not because evidence was better against them then all the others but because politically it was beneficial to one of the parties, in most cases Democrats. I 100% believe everything to do with politicians on TV is nothing more then a well planned and written reality TV show with the purpose of manipulate American citizens to believing it's all real and that we have a real role in the political process.
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I've said for years I believe elections are pointless because I believe the next president is picked before anyone publicly announces they're running and everything from that point on is a show put on for the American people. I believe Trump was picked before hand, Hillary knew this all along and because of the show they put on for the 2016 election was so decisive they decided to keep it going straight through til 2020. Elections are nothing but a very well written and staged reality TV show, this one is just more intense with plot twists to keep people interested in their show keeping them blind to what really goes on, they even go as far as arresting people who have actually committed crimes, using them in their plot twists making it seem all that much more realistic. Other then all this since 2016 think back as far as you can to all the times and official was caught committing crimes, when I do i remember that regardless how big or deprived the criminal actions were 95% of those crimes resulted in nothing more then asking yes asking that official to resign, 4% of crimes committed by official were made a big story in the news for 1 to 3 days then nothing more said and letting those officials continue to do there jobs without any repercussions and the last 1% are actually charged not because evidence was better against them then all the others but because politically it was beneficial to one of the parties, in most cases Democrats. I 100% believe everything to do with politicians on TV is nothing more then a well planned and written reality TV show with the purpose of manipulate American citizens to believing it's all real and that we have a real role in the political process.
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Leif
AV or a run off doesn't give you a real majority, just a fake majority, because it forces people to vote against themselves in a second or subsequent ballot. One can argue that a run-off system is actually less proportional (less fair to voters) because it's harder to vote strategically, one of the few things you can do under FPTP as a voter to better your chance of having at least some affect. Best of course would be to achieve proportional representation, which requires multi-winner districts so a number of parties/candidates can win in proportion to the votes cast for them with no absurdly unfair advantage to the twin -Demopublican- establishement parties. There's no need for or advantage to strategic voting in a fair (proportional) voting system, because by by definition PR essentially means that every vote counts.
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AV or a run off doesn't give you a real majority, just a fake majority, because it forces people to vote against themselves in a second or subsequent ballot. One can argue that a run-off system is actually less proportional (less fair to voters) because it's harder to vote strategically, one of the few things you can do under FPTP as a voter to better your chance of having at least some affect. Best of course would be to achieve proportional representation, which requires multi-winner districts so a number of parties/candidates can win in proportion to the votes cast for them with no absurdly unfair advantage to the twin -Demopublican- establishement parties. There's no need for or advantage to strategic voting in a fair (proportional) voting system, because by by definition PR essentially means that every vote counts.
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Luis
A question to ask is what are your plans to help the us economy from crashing into a bigger debt, what are your projects, projects either make money or waste money, if they don't have a lick of sense do we have to vote if both parties don't have the qualification? It takes intelligence and science, I have the solution, our technology can increase but our economy will crash worldwide, I should be president because I want to help my country, it won't happen I'm a felon and i'm not age appropriate, i need 7 more years till I hit 35 I'm still in my 20s but I figured the formula on 5 years ago, I knew how to solve the trillion dollar debt years ago I grew from there since I didn't get paid and now i'm on a level where I can see what it is,
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A question to ask is what are your plans to help the us economy from crashing into a bigger debt, what are your projects, projects either make money or waste money, if they don't have a lick of sense do we have to vote if both parties don't have the qualification? It takes intelligence and science, I have the solution, our technology can increase but our economy will crash worldwide, I should be president because I want to help my country, it won't happen I'm a felon and i'm not age appropriate, i need 7 more years till I hit 35 I'm still in my 20s but I figured the formula on 5 years ago, I knew how to solve the trillion dollar debt years ago I grew from there since I didn't get paid and now i'm on a level where I can see what it is,
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Robert
I think to save our country from bad policies being voted in by casual voters we should raise the prerequisites of voting. Instead of having a nonexistent IQ peroxide to vote we should have a minimum IQ requirement of at least in the 90. I also believe that all voters should have a working knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and their knowledge should be proven by a standardized test.
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I think to save our country from bad policies being voted in by casual voters we should raise the prerequisites of voting. Instead of having a nonexistent IQ peroxide to vote we should have a minimum IQ requirement of at least in the 90. I also believe that all voters should have a working knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and their knowledge should be proven by a standardized test.
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Alan
So why are we stuck with this antiquated system of dividing ourselves along liberal and conservative lines. How about dividing ourselves between the religious and non-religipus.
Because this is more representative of how people choose to divide themselves, not conservative or liberal.
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So why are we stuck with this antiquated system of dividing ourselves along liberal and conservative lines. How about dividing ourselves between the religious and non-religipus.
Because this is more representative of how people choose to divide themselves, not conservative or liberal.
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Nelle
They messed it up in the election of 1800.
me: WAIT! I KNOW ABOUT THAT! THAT WAS JEFFERSON V BURR (And like. Adams ran but no-one cares about him) WHERE IT WAS A TIE! and 'its crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be VP': who says Hamilton doesn't teach ya stuff?
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They messed it up in the election of 1800.
me: WAIT! I KNOW ABOUT THAT! THAT WAS JEFFERSON V BURR (And like. Adams ran but no-one cares about him) WHERE IT WAS A TIE! and 'its crazy that the guy who comes in second gets to be VP': who says Hamilton doesn't teach ya stuff?
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Terry
Love your narrative!
Now if only more American's understood why so many of the Founding Fathers Warned U. S. NOT to allow Party Systems to form in out Halls of Governance.
Hint. -. .. specifically a two party system will tear the country apart. - George Washington
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Love your narrative!
Now if only more American's understood why so many of the Founding Fathers Warned U. S. NOT to allow Party Systems to form in out Halls of Governance.
Hint. -. .. specifically a two party system will tear the country apart. - George Washington
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Switch
Ohh the plurality graphic helped! The words all over the screen at times while you-re narrating do not. They are very distracting. I-m assuming you don-t this anymore since the video is so old
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Ohh the plurality graphic helped! The words all over the screen at times while you-re narrating do not. They are very distracting. I-m assuming you don-t this anymore since the video is so old
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George
This was super useful information. But does any one ells feel like this guy didn't move his face very much while speaking? Totally off topic, but it kinda wigged me out.
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This was super useful information. But does any one ells feel like this guy didn't move his face very much while speaking? Totally off topic, but it kinda wigged me out.
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Amber
I know no one gives a fLiP, but in case u wanna fix it. proportionally is misspelled in the transcript (DON'T HAAAAAATE MEEEE PLS, I'M OUT HERE TAKIN NOTES LMAO)
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I know no one gives a fLiP, but in case u wanna fix it. proportionally is misspelled in the transcript (DON'T HAAAAAATE MEEEE PLS, I'M OUT HERE TAKIN NOTES LMAO)
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