The idea was for Presidents to also be elected that way

At first

That was the Temporary Solution

Since the country was unstable after the Revolution

They wanted to smooth things out first before letting regular people Vote

Which didn't happen until Andrew Jackson

I personally wouldn't want Direct Democracy for Electing the president either, tbbh

@Inept Chronicler There is a difference between using Direct Democracy to Elect and using Direct Democracy as a System of Gov't

Like France, for instance, elects their Presidents through Direct Democracy but they're still a Congressional Republic run like the US

That's actually untrue; been debunked numerous times

But even then, that's why I personally wouldn't have the President be directly elected

I favour a Parliamentary System like the UK and India

The US can already do that

It's not even bad

Take the Congressional Election that the US has, and just use that to elect your leader

Unlike the EC (which has a 90% Popular Victor to Electoral Victor), the US Congress has a 97% Success

http://images.dailykos.com/images/359014/original/2016_House_Districts_by_Presidential_Party_Winner_Net_Change_vs_2012.png?1485791238

^The US Election would be divided like this

Basically, the Leader of the Party to Win the Most Seats in Congress becomes President

@Inept Chronicler Pretty straightforward, eh?

Works nicely too

And it lets us vote Third Parties because those parties can now freely hold seats in Congress

Yep

One District gets one Vote

It's how the UK, Canada, Australia, India, NZ, and Japan do things

Another thing that would be good is "Ranked Choice Voting"

This would kill Vote Splitting

Getting rid of Spoilers n shit

The US is already a Welfare State

Every Developed Nation is

Since it has a Police Force, Military, and a Government which provides services

@J.R. BOB DOBBS Welfare just means Gov't Spending. So a Welfare State is just a State where the Gov't Spends Money on things like the Police/Fire/Rescue, DMV, Military, Gov't Institutions, Health Care, Education, etc etc

In that respect, even China is a Welfare State

Welfare has no formal definition

The most broad definition is any gov't spending

And that's what the Welfare state does mean, btw

The Welfare in Welfare State does mean Spending on Services

Also, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social aren't bad

They're steps in the right direction

I would argue get rid of Medicate and just let everyone have Medicare

Well, unless you're talking Health Care

No

Private Health Care is awful, lol

You already have Wait times under the Private System

The Private Wait Times are based on the Size of your Wallet

Public Wait times are on Need

Some rich guy with Stomach Aches in the US is higher priority than someone with a Stage 4 Cancer in the American System

In a Universal System, the wait times regard Priority. Someone with Cancer or who just suffered a Heart Attack, of course, is higher priority than you, who might be in for a minor fever. The higher priority niggas get almost instantaneous care while those who are lower priority might have to wait a little longer.

That is untrue

You're literally only looking at the NHS

There are other systems too

Such as the French/German System (regarded as the Best in the World) in which Private Health Care Companies still exist but the way you pay for said insurance is with Taxes

Multi/Single-Payer Systems are Objectively better than the Private System

You really think the Private Oligopoly Competes in the US? There's like 12 Health Care Companies and they're all in the same Big Club

As a result, Health Care costs in the US are the HIGHEST in the Entire World (let alone the Developed World)

There are some things that just should be off the Table from the Private Sector; ya wouldn't want to have Private Policemen or Firefighters, now would you?

"Help! My House is Burning Down!"
"That'll be $30,000"
"I c-can't afford that"
"Welp, pack up boys. There's nothing we can do ab it now"

@Death in June Because things like Universal Health Care are something everyone benefits off of; extremely popular services, to the people. Thus, if the Right Winged Party even tries touching the Health Care System, it's seen as Political Suicide

Only exception are the Tories in the UK who, under Tony Blair and David Cameron, literally raped the NHS to death, taking it from the #1 in the World to lower than the US' Health Care System; but the only reason the Tories didn't end up killing their party with that is bc people just hate Corbyn and the Labour Party a fuck ton more

Times are so divisive, at this point

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@FitnessByHeatherHeyer That has more to do with Institutions rather than Insurance

I mean, for my Data Management Project, I looked at comparing Obesity Rates to quality of Health Care and I did find a direct correlation

Japan has one of the Best Health Care Systems and one of the lowest Obesity Rates lol

Obamacare is Shit, anything new?

Not really

It's bc the US is a Corporatocracy

Whenever the Gov't gets involved, it's bc the Corporations have paid the Gov't to pass regulations that would help *them*

Everyone knows the US is the most Corrupt Country in the Developed World

Corruption is literally Legal

The SCOTUS has affirmed this for over a century now

@Death in June Well, Obamacare was the Originally the GOP's Health Care Plan that Obama Stole

RomneyCare

Made by Mitt Romney

And the Wikileaks have shown that Romney was paid by the Insurance Companies to give them this plan since it would benefit them

@FitnessByHeatherHeyer https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig/

The US is functionally an Oligarchy; what we'd call a Corporatocracy; a System of Gov't in which the Big Corporations control the State

This is actually an Argument I often use against Socialists who try blaming America's problems on Capitalism

The United States ain't a Capitalist Country, it's actually a Socialist Country...one of the Most Socialist Countries in the World; the difference is that differentiates the US from other Socialist Countries and makes em appear to be Capitalist is that all of that Socialism is for the Rich; Corporate Welfare; what we would call "Corporatist"

@Uksio estimates say it was up to 12M

Also, there aren’t 100M Jews

....

They say 6-12

“Hitler was not a bad guy”

Yes he was, wtf?

Psychology is interesting because Hitler, still being a Human Being and all, became the Evil man that he was through a gradual process of rejection

He did good but did way more bad

@Hommedaction No, Hitler didn’t care about women, in the first place. The only reason he engaged with Eva was because she was so psychotic about him that she shot herself because he rejected her and he felt guilty

Hitler was Evil

Regardless of whatever you say about his transformation, he was still evil and unjustified

Just as Stalin, Mao, Pinochet, Pol Pot, and Genghis Khan were Evil, Hitler was also Evil and there is no denying it

The transformation he had to becoming evil is the part we in psychology find fascinating