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b_b  ·  2696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Noam Chomsky called this political moment 6 years ago

It's more subtle than hate, I think. When I think about the Trump voters in my life, they don't hate anyone, per se. They think that White Man is the standard bearer for a reason, and that all other groups exist in America at their pleasure. One could make an argument that that's a form of hate, but it's not classical hate. It's a form of the thought that humanity isn't universal, and America (and the world) has been fighting that demon since the Constitution was adopted. Let's not forget (most people aren't even aware) that the reason Democrats haven't had the last four Presidencies now is that they lost the Electoral College, WHICH WAS CREATED SO THAT SLAVE STATES WOULD RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION. It wasn't created to protect "small" states as you often hear repeated in the media. Rhode Island is pretty fuckin' small, and they were on board with direct voting. Slave states needed over representation as a precondition to ratification so that we wouldn't always have a Northern President. The over representation they had in the House (via slaves counting as 3/5 of a person) still wasn't enough to guarantee that the President wouldn't always be from a Free State. So they came up with the two extra votes as a way to even out the voting between states. Slavery isn't dead, and we continue to let this vestige oppress us, the real moral majority. We need an amendment to rectify this. And we need to stop the PC bullshit about "small" states when we mean "slave" states. It's hurtful to our existence.