{"id":998,"date":"2016-12-19T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T03:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:06:36","slug":"hamilton-weeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/hamilton-weeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Weeps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Greetings and Salutations;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today, &nbsp;the Electoral College met, and, to the disappointment of many and surprise of few, &nbsp;proved it was not what Hamilton had intended for it to be, &nbsp;but, &nbsp;rather, &nbsp;was a rubber stamp in the process of the Presidential Election. &nbsp; In spite of the fact that the donald is manifestly unqualified to be President of these United States, and, &nbsp;that there is a large amount of evidence that a Foreign Country (Russia) &nbsp;worked to influence the Election to ensure the donald&#8217;s election, &nbsp;the Electors cast enough votes for the donald that he has, officially, &nbsp;been elected as the President. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hamilton, &nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed68.asp\">Federalist Papers #68<\/a>, &nbsp;explained in detail that he was aware of how a demagogue can use the magic of language to speak to the basic fears and prejudices of the voters, &nbsp;and thereby allow an unqualified person who does not have the best interests of the country to take the Chair of the President. &nbsp; The Electoral College was created and charged with the responsibility of keeping that from happening. &nbsp;Well, &nbsp;today they failed. &nbsp; As has been well documented time and time again, &nbsp;the donald has based his campaign not on concrete plans to improve the lot of most Americans, &nbsp;but on anger, prejudice and hate of &#8220;The Other&#8221; who is responsible for the problems the citizens are having. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>It is &#8220;The Other&#8221; that is sneaking into our country, taking our jobs, and causing &#8220;real&#8221; Americans to end up out of work; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>It is &#8220;The Other&#8221; who is making financial decisions in the banks that threaten to take the citizen&#8217;s home away; &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>It is &#8220;The Other&#8221; who is bringing violence to America and killing us and our families randomly; &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>It is &#8220;The Other&#8221; who is a very educated person who looks down upon the plumbers, &nbsp;delivery guys, &nbsp;Restaurant Servers and the like with contempt and who does not care about them at all; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>It is &#8220;The Other&#8221; who has brought such chaos and evil to the Federal Government that only HE, &nbsp;the donald, &nbsp;can fix it. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>These, and a much longer list of points demonstrate that the donald is precisely the person that Hamilton was talking about. &nbsp;However, &nbsp;while I will not get into it right now, &nbsp;it is documented that these attacks are lies, and have no basis in reality. &nbsp;That, though, &nbsp;does not matter to the donald, or the 25.5% of American voters who have joined his cult.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No one argues that Hillary Clinton is not perfect. &nbsp;She has a 40 year history of public service, &nbsp;during which she has made a few bad decisions. &nbsp;In a vast majority of those cases, &nbsp;she has, as she had learned more about the issues, changed her mind and position. &nbsp; She has also publicly owned her mistake, apologized for it, and worked really hard to NOT repeat it over the time since. &nbsp; As has been pointed out elsewhere, &nbsp;she has been under almost constant investigation by Republican committees during most of these years. &nbsp;Yet, &nbsp;in spite of these witch hunts by enemies, &nbsp;no charges or indictments have appeared. &nbsp;I. E. &nbsp;she, unlike the donald, &nbsp;has a record clean of civil convictions. &nbsp; &nbsp;In addition, &nbsp;as of today, &nbsp;she has a majority vote of close to 3 million votes over the donald. &nbsp;Yet&#8230;it was a foregone conclusion that the Electoral College would never elect her to the Presidency. &nbsp; Yet another example of how Hamilton&#8217;s Ideal of Democracy has been raped and murdered over the years. &nbsp;It has been the death of a thousand cuts, &nbsp;but, the victim has finally expired.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is a sad day for America and the world today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>God save us all!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bee Man Dave<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>=-=-=-=-=<br \/><i>Powered by <b><a href=\"http:\/\/blogilo.gnufolks.org\/\">Blogilo<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations; Today, &nbsp;the Electoral College met, and, to the disappointment of many and surprise of few, &nbsp;proved it&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/blog\/2016\/12\/19\/hamilton-weeps\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[386,9,10,23],"tags":[380,562,592,593,578],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-thoughts","category-humanity","category-nuttiness","category-political-rants","tag-death","tag-debacle","tag-demagogue","tag-democracy","tag-electoral-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beemandave.com\/beemanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}