Now there are a lot of problems with this
years elections.
The biggest obviously being the fact that
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, yet
she's still not going to be the president,
just like Al Gore won the popular vote in
the year 2000 and he never got to be president.
That's because we have this old archaic electoral
college system in place in the United States.
It is beyond time for the electoral college
to go away.
If you read any of the analysis out there
on why the electoral college was created in
the first place, it all goes back to ensuring
that white votes count more than black votes
because in the southern states, the less densely
populated states where you had higher concentration
of blacks, they were awarded lesser electoral
votes.
Even if that popular vote went one way, they
could ensure that the states with larger populations,
more electoral college votes, more white people
that they had more say in who chose our president.
This system has to go.
It is absolutely antidemocratic in a democratic
society.
The people vote and choose.
That's how it should be.
There's no other way around that, but speaking
of voters choosing, I kind of think we ought
to limit the choice the voter have.
I mean that in terms of congressional term
limits.
John McCain at 80 years old won reelection
Tuesday night.
I know a lot of people say his age isn't a
factor.
However, you will not find a scientific study
that does not say that mental capacities do
not diminish as you get older.
They in fact do.
John McCain is still very sharp, still fairly
smart, but I guarantee you, he's not what
he was 20, 30, 40 years ago in terms of mental
capacity.
He should not be able to run again.
Not just because of his age, but because he's
been in the senate for decades and it's not
just John McCain.
There are dozens and dozens of people in this
country who have been serving in Washington
for far too long.
Here's the thing, if we had term limits, do
you know what argument would go away?
The argument that nothing ever changes because
think about it, if we're electing the same
representatives and senators for 20 years
in a row, what the hell do you expect is going
to happen?
Yeah, nothings going to change because the
same people are still running the show.
It's going to be exactly the same.
Their beliefs don't evolve.
In fact, they always tend to get a little
bit more corporate because they're so far
removed for so long from their constituents,
from the American people wrapped up in their
little Washington DC bubble where they don't
hear the complaints and the concerns of average
American citizens.
That's why we need term limits.
Sadly, yes.
It means we would have to say goodbye to some
people who are true progressive fighters,
Bernie Sanders, unfortunately, Sheldon Whitehouse.
Those people would obviously be limited by
term limits, but it is necessary.
In a nation that was founded on the fear of
having kings and one supreme ruler, we allow
three or four people, five, six to rule the
house for 20 or 30 years, or to rule the senate
for 20 or 30 years.
How is does that make us not king makers?
That's what they become.
They willed so much power because they're
there for so long.
It's time to get rid of them.
We have to have congressional term limits.
There is no argument you could make that would
make me believe that we don't need those.
There is no argument you could make to convince
me that we don't need to get rid of the electoral
college.
There are lot of changes that we have to make
to this democracy and people seem a little
unwilling to embrace that.
Look, the constitution of the United States
is meant to be changed.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson wanted the constitution
to expire every couple of decades so that
no generation could bind the generation behind
it to their rules.
We should honor that and we should continue
to evolve as a democracy because if we don't,
things will never change.
