[ExI] Election stuff

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 22:51:28 UTC 2016


On Nov 4, 2016 3:26 PM, "Rafal Smigrodzki" <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you have almost every institution of note in the US on your side in a
presidential election, you by definition have a majority or near-majority
of the popular vote too
>
> ### Is this a country of the institutions or a country of the people? Are
the people just a tedious appendage, soon to be rendered superfluous by the
robot revolution?

No, but institutions are comprised of people.  If you have an institution
on your side, that means you have many - probably most - of the people who
comprise that institution on your side.  So if you have just about all of
the institutions on your side...

There are many people who are not part of any institution.  But "many" is
not "all".  Citizens who work for the government or large companies are
still citizens, with the right to vote according to their numbers (one
person, one vote) just like most groupings of citizens.
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