I thought it was the best national anthem I ' ve ever heard . She is talented as fuck <| sep |> Ah my bad , misinterpreted your comment . <| sep |> Completely agree with this . I ' ve been making exactly this argument to my friends who are really upset about this election result here in NYC . It ' s a very serious case of , Be careful what you wish for . Eliminating the Electoral College would , in my opinion , probably lock democrats out of the White House permanently . Let ' s face it . Republicans have more kids than democrats do . The population as a whole is always going to resemble red more than it does blue . A popular vote mechanism is not going to benefit the democrats in the long run , and it ' s extremely questionable to say that Gore would have won in 2000 or that Hillary Clinton would have won this election . That ' s some sort of crazy revisionist scenario that pretends that everything would be the same except for , you know , the way the country works . The bottom line from this election is that the republicans did pretty much what they always do . There was no massive uprising of the people that magically supported Trump because he is connecting to the people . Republicans voted the way they have always voted and in pretty much the same overall numbers . Democrats didn ' t get out and support their candidate . Trump didn ' t win this election so much as Hillary lost it . Also , Trump ' s team knew the rules of the game extremely well and knew that he had a cap on his ability to get popular vote . His team had him and his proxies campaigning in exactly the places he needed to be to win the electoral votes to take him over the top . Hillary ' s team made assumptions that turned out to not be supported by reality . People need to understand a couple of things right now . 1 . People have a finite amount of energy to get out and do things . There ' s a lot of enthusiasm coming from a lot of people who are working against Trump right now . That ' s a good sentiment , in my opinion . But people will get fatigued and interest will wane over time . We need to step away from pointless fights about things like overturning the election and start focusing on things that can make a difference . Things like making noise about really irresponsible cabinet appointments . Things like legislation that ' s still in progress in congress right now . 2 . We need to stop being distracted by stupid newstwitter rants , Pence getting lectured and boo ' d at Hamilton , meaningless noiseand start paying attention to what ' s happening that matters . We are getting played by our own sense of righteous anger over the election and we are getting distracted by what people are saying and not paying attention to what people are doing . This is not only bad because it makes us ineffective in participating in the system in ways we do have control over contacting our congresspeople and telling them what we think about legislation that ' s on the table now , but it also puts fuel on the fire of the antisocial justice people who have been constructing a narrative about how we fail to achieve equality because we are all about talk and have no interest in action . People who are genuinely unhappy with the election results and I ' m one of them need a hard dose of reality . We need to be less angry , less afraid more focused , and more realistic about what we can do . The world isn ' t coming to an end . The sky isn ' t falling . We still have representation in congress . We still have ways to oppose effectively and make our will heard completely within the confines of the system that ' s currently in place . Burning the whole thing down and wishing for some extrademocratic process to achieve our goals is hogwash . This is the way the system is supposed to work . That ' s what we crowed about and loved when Obama was electedtwice . We were proud of a system that could go from slavery to having a black president in a few generations . The system that elected Trump is the same system that elected Obama . Nothing has fundamentally changed . We need to keep that in mind and stop being outraged . We need to organize and be effective and on point about very specific things instead of talking about an unfair system . Trump , for the entire election cycle , has been extremely good at manipulating the media to cover things that don ' t really matter . He ' s been good at saying obnoxious things that grab attention , and we ' ve been letting him do that to us . We need to stop it , right now . Every time he says something stupid and we get all incensed about it and real news goes uncovered because we are all playing equality warrior on twitter , we end up looking like clowns and asshats who are too stupid to come up with an effective strategy to work against him . Wise up people . Swallow your white guilt for a moment . Think about what you can do that actually matters . Focus your efforts on things that we can do instead of fantasizing about burning the system down . We need you to do this . Now , more than ever .