Matt Davies for December 20, 2016

For historical accuracy that should surely be horse-drawn!

The Electoral College pre-dates even steam locomotives!!!

The system still works fine. Smart forefathers.

I appreciate that Davies has taken every precaution to make sure we know which way the movement is going in this picture. A wise cartoonist.

sorry, but the thought of being run by the idiots in LA and NYC…

louieglutz – Sorry, but I live in the fly-over zone, and I sure as heck don’t like the idea of being run by the idiots who live here.

I wish political commentaries would try to be slightly accurate…THE US IS NOT, AND HAS NEVER BEEN A DEMOCRACY. We are a Republic of separate states. We elect representation on local and statewide levels. Those representatives vote on our behalf on the Federal level, Electoral College is just another level of representation on the Federal level. A more accurate portrayal would be: Instead of voting for a Candidate X, we vote for Elector on behalf of Candidate X.

If we were a Democracy, Every voter would meet Locally to vote on EVERY issue presented from paving local streets to declaring war on another country.

I would like to point out gently that your president elect is also from your dreaded “big city.” New York City to be exact.

Where I live used to be agricultural and run by a Republican machine. We are now choked with suburban tract houses and shopping districts put up by those same Republicans to make money. Then it’s up to our local townships to come up with funds to handle all the traffic, sewage and school construction necessary to handle the expanding population.They truly are on a course to pave Paradise and put up parking lots.

So cute.

They want governmental actions to be a high speed train into the unknown.

Succinct

BrassOrchid said,

@DavidHuieGreen

"When everything you know is reality, fantasy is your only means of escape."

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Fantasy is often more pleasant. That is why people fantasize about rushing headlong into the future, assuming wise leadership and an informed populace when reality shows this is most unlikely.

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That’s why I prefer science fiction; it contemplates alternatives and possible dangers behind even the most benign-seeming events.

DrDon1 said,

@Doug Thomas

" I’d add that CA and NY probably contribute more to the nation’s GDP than “fly-over land” does."

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Therefore unworthy of any respect?

wiatr said,

“Where I live used to be agricultural and run by a Republican machine. We are now choked with suburban tract houses and shopping districts put up by those same Republicans to make money. Then it’s up to our local townships to come up with funds to handle all the traffic, sewage and school construction necessary to handle the expanding population.”

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Too many of “the wrong kind of people” perhaps?

They should have stayed where they were or go back where they came from perhaps?

“I’ve got mine so the rest of you stay away” perhaps?

The complaints sound mighty familiar.

Are you sure you aren’t a Republican?

More losers, even though they had to know the 200-year-old Constitutional rules. Knuckleheads!

wiatr said,

@DavidHuieGreen

“Sorry, my sense of integrity forbids me to register as a Republican.”

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Even though you hold many similar attitudes?

I can dig that.

Many Republicans are extremely obnoxious, so are some of us Democrats.

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My sense of integrity forbids me to vote for some Democrats.

It made me vote against Bill in the nineties because Hillary said heck, don’t vote for him if lying and unfaithfulness bothered me — it does.

It made me vote for Obama over Hillary in the 2008 Florida primary and Obama over McCain in the general election.

(She lied and McC sponsored McC-Feingold, an unconstitutional limitation on abhorrent speech — the only kind which needs protection .)

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You will notice I often lose, but I’m used to it.

Voting for what I oppose is worse than losing.

Time to change. The Wild West isn’t so wild anymore, the middle US has Cities now, check your map. I resent their votes counting more than mine.