How do you make a living or do people support you ? <| sep |> The Charatan is too large for my tastes . Im interested in smaller bulldogs , egg , or blowfish . Cumberland stems are a favorite . <| sep |> So what ? If we are mad enough about it then we should change the rules to make it so the popular vote is what matters and then use that system from now on beginning with the next election . As of right now , they both campaigned in an effort to win the electoral college with no focus on the popular vote . You can ' t just retroactively change the rules to switch the winner without it being a subversion of democracy . Both sides knew they were competing for electoral votes and that ' s exactly what they were striving for . I ' m all for getting rid of the electoral college . You just can ' t change it and retroactively apply it to make sure the loser is now the winner . If Hillary won the electoral college and lost the popular vote , the same exact people saying we need to switch the rules and change the winner would be sitting here defending the electoral college and they damn well know it . You ' re not calling for this out of principle all of a sudden , you want it to happen now and you want it retroactively applied because you want your team to win . If you really cared about democracy you would be calling for the abolishment of the electoral college to happen , but not until next election . Until then , you ' re just trying to change the rules for your own gain . There ' s a damn good reason we don ' t apply laws retroactively in this country , and it should stay that way , especially in this situation . It sucks that Donald Trump won , but he won , and the people chose him through the system we have in place . This needs to be respected if we are going to be able to have any faith in our votes mattering . It would be a travesty to overrule the choice the people made with the system we had in place when that choice was made .