Progressing in America from the Industrial to the Information Age

Checkerboard Strangler said:

Dear Fellow Americans:
If you think paying for higher education is expensive, wait till you get a load of what generational ignorance is going to cost.

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It's already happening.

How do you think Donald Dork got elected? By the superior wisdom of those who voted for him? Or by the voting-manipulation of an Electoral College?

I'm all for the latter. The US has been a lack-of-bonafide-democracy since the 12th Amendment instituted the Electoral College in 1804, which simply reaffirms an Electoral College arrangement stipulated already in the Constitution itself signed in 1787.

And America will not be a "true democracy" until it rids itself of the Electoral College - that serves no purpose whatsoever. Here is the distorted map of the EC against a backdrop of the physical boundaries of the US:

We are progressing from the Industrial Age to the Information Age.

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I think a more apt verb tense is the present perfect: "have progressed."

Xelor said:

I think a more apt verb tense is the present perfect: "have progressed."

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generally true and we have 96% employment so no worries really!!

Lafayette said:

87.

And America will not be a "true democracy" until it rids itself of the Electoral College -

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You mean until it has voter qualification tests. How would you like it if your doctor voter was unqualified? Electoral College is a very trivial matter.

Checkerboard Strangler said:

And we haven't even touched on technological unemployment, another spectre looming in the not too distant future.

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actually we've had technology for centuries and we still have 96% employment so no worries.