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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Or would you be complaining about Hillary as president if she won with a minority popular vote. Would you be sitting here today if Hillary was being inaugurated musing that she was an illegitimate president with an illegitimate background.
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The electoral college is a system that counts each vote from a rural area (and therefore, statistically speaking, a whiter, more Christian area) as being worth more than each vote from an urban area, which seems particularly unfair in an election that many people saw as a referendum on whether America should be a white, Christian nation or if it should be a country that welcomes everyone and values them equally.
The people who are most affected by a wall, deportation of their family members, a ban on immigrants who share their religion and the return of stop & frisk policies are justifiably upset that their votes didn't count as much as the votes of people whose lives won't be directly affected by those things.