Joy Reid’s comments about rural America stunning in their arrogance, ignorance

Joy Reid of MSNBC is on social media calling rural Americans a "core threat" to our democracy. Note the following tweets below:Notwithstanding that, to have a national "news" host call rural America a "core threat" to our democracy is both striking arrogance and striking ignorance. MSNBC host Joy Reid’s comments about rural America are stunning in their arrogance, ignorance

 

Erick Erickson is a bigger threat.

 

Deepest Background is reporting Donald Trump has won the 2016 election.

 

She's right. Or more specifically, their existential angst at their way of life being progressed to obsolescence and the systemic advantages they get in choosing our leaders.

 

Yup.

 

Maybe Deepest Background should fetch us all beers before complaining about rural America criticism.

 

Now do Janet Porter.

Roll Tide.

 

Yet they say it's the coastal elites that are the bad guys.

 

Yes, their arguments are stunningly arrogant and elitist. But good luck changing the system. They'd need 2/3 of the House and Senate to send a Constitutional amendment to the states, where they would need 3/4 of the states to pass it. Not happening in any of our lifetimes.
And the alternative to the Electoral College is electing by popular vote, which means whoever wins New York and California will win the presidency. Every time.

 

Good. Because *that's where the people are*.

Those two states have a population of 47 million. That's more than the combined populations of Wyoming, Alaska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Idaho, West Virginia, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Nevada, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah, Iowa, Oklahoma and Connecticutt.

The electoral college was one of multiple compromise mechanisms put in to protect slave states. If you really want to argue that different regions of the country are sufficiently different so as to need special protection, whatever, but the way that the current state system is set up severely overdoes it. And that's even before we get into the absurdity of the U.S. Senate allocations.

But hell, your statement isn't even true. The winner of the popular vote did not win New York or California in 2004, 1988, 1976.

 

LOL, nothing at this place like hondo the barely concealed racist getting owned every time.

 

He cited three elections out of how many?
And while the Electoral College may have been set up to benefit the slave states back then, it protects flyover country now. Otherwise, whatever East or West Coast elitist who wants to be president will will every time.
And you can claim someone else "got owned" all you want. That doesn't make it true. Maybe you just won't accept common sense.