Originally Posted by
darkroomsource
it amazes me how people don't want to know about the electoral system, or why it's there. The US is not a democracy, it's a republic. It's a group of states that share a central federal government
More correctly, the US is a constitutional
representative republic. We elect members of Congress to represent us in the legislative process. We elect the President to provide oversight on the activities of Congress. And our nation is ultimately governed by the principles defined in the US Constitution.
Funny how the people claiming the electoral college system that elected President Trump is not legitimate, but had no complaints when that same electoral college system elected President Obama twice and President Clinton twice.