You've been saying that since the election, as though there's some profound epiphany we are all supposed to have about Donald Trump being president. What is there to understand? It's not rocket science. People like charismatic people no matter how substance-less they are.

a map from the American catholic.....wow.....who gives a shit?

I'm still not sure what you're arguing here....is this the beginning of an argument that basically states the physical size of your state should dictate your influence on the election? If so, Montana and Alaska should have 100 electoral votes.

California has 55 EVs....and they deserve them all.

Furthermore, Hillary got 3 million more popular votes than Drumpf...whether that matters in the EC or not is not debatable....but it sure does matter in general.

Are you purporting that losing the popular vote by that margin but still winning the EC makes this an obvious mandate for President Drumpf?

Are you suggesting that somehow California's population, larger than any other state, shouldn't be allocated the number of EVs it has? That a representative democracy would be better served if they weren't proportionately represented?

Are you arguing that the misleading map from Catholic America...the map that treats the physical size of the country/state/county as the metric for showing you how the country voted. The same map that shows Cook County, Illinois to be an ant hill but the state of South Dakota and Wyoming as mountains next to said ant hill....when the combined populations of both states are about 10% of cook county AT BEST!

C'mon man...show me those critical thinking skill.....

I've been reading some about what's been going on in North Carolina...

I have to come to realization that this is the new world we live in...there is little to no common ground anymore. The hatred between Republicans and Democrats is deep.

I guess my question is...how can Republicans tell Dems to stfu at the federal level but do shit like this at the state level.

Republicans are brazenly and unapologetically just changing the rules all over the place to ensure victory at all costs. From friendships with Putin and Russia to stripping a democratic governor of many of his powers is just our right ruthless. There is no holds bared anymore. There are no rules.

I cannot, with a clean conscious, cozy up to these types of tactics. Maybe they've always been around...I don't know...but to pretend anything about this is Christian, or moral in any religion, is outright delusional.

Furthermore, to pretend this country we live in is a Democracy is ludicrous. I am really disenchanted by the tactics taken by Republicans at the state level in Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, and now North Carolina. This game is so rigged.

Once Trump won, all the sudden there was nothing to question about the system anymore. He banged his drum and whined and pissed and moaned about the unfairness to him. Then, when he won....he did a complete 180.

Scarier, maybe I have to admit that this is a great reflection of the American people. We don't truly believe in anything, we truly don't stand for anything except for business interests that keep our standard of living as high as possible. Everything else can fall to the wayside. Ethics, morality, and doing the right thing turns into a high school he said, she said popularity contest.

If you would allow me, I would like to share some of the experiences I have had in business over the last two years.

My first business, I had a business partner who turned out to be a closet homosexual. While this is oversimplifying things a bit, in 2012 I was faced with an ultimatum. If we wanted our overwhelmingly successful business partnership to continue, I was going to have to consider being involved in a homosexual, highly controlling relationship with a deeply troubled (more than I ever knew) gay man. The choice was obvious to me, I needed out. And I watched our business slowly burn over the period of about 15 months. At the time, our business was grossing round $2-2.5 million per year.

I ventured out on my own after that...and something just as disgusting occurred in the summer of 2015. As I was just reaching something comparable with my new business, my right hand man (woman) in this case was engaging what I know now to be 11 alleged counts of fraud under my business name. We begin litigation early next year. This includes but is not limited to, creating her own LLC, slowly but surely transferring assets to said LLC, creating a new/fake TIN/EIN, double billing insurance companies...and this list goes on. She funded European vacations for her family members.

This has been my experience in business to date. Absolutely ruthless, selfish, entitled behavior with absolutely no remorse for anyone and no concern for anything but one's self interest.

I wanted to believe that these were great anomalies, and I was just young and stupid and not really sure how to protect myself. I feel like with Trump's business practices, that this in commonplace in this country. People fuck each other over without batting an eyelash. Those are the winners in this country. We treat them like heroes, giving no thought to the carnage left behind by these predator practices. 

These experiences and the people we hold up on pedestals on this country make me feel extremely alienated. I do not want to believe that this is what America is...maybe I'm the fool for holding out hope this long in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary.

Now the FBI joins the CIA in support of their allegations...

Now conservatives have to disparage another agency that disagrees with their narrative.