Ain't it grand? Pay for everything and get to vote only from a once removed postion. Greaaaaat.

Welcome to the United States of America... where 200 some years ago they thought all Americans were SO stupid they wouldn't be smart enough to vote for themselves... this may have been TRUE 200 years ago but are forefathers screwed the future over...

LOL!!! Yeah, it seems to me there MUST be a better way! We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpation, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

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No, there is just one step: Americans elect electors who elect the President. Moreover, those electors only technically elect whom they wish, practically they elect whom they are supposed to elect (whom they were elected to elect). "The Electoral College consists of the popularly elected representatives who formally select the President and Vice President of the United States; since 1964 the electoral college has had 538 electors. In 2008, it will make this selection on December 15. The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election. Rather than directly voting for the President and Vice President, United States citizens cast votes for electors. Electors are technically free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates and voters cast ballots for favored presidential and vice presidential candidates by voting for correspondingly pledged electors. Most states allow voters to choose between statewide slates of electors pledged to vote for the presidential and vice presidential tickets of various parties; the ticket that receives the most votes statewide 'wins' all of the votes cast by electors from that state. U.S. presidential campaigns concentrate on winning the popular vote in a combination of states that choose a majority of the electors, rather than campaigning to win the most votes nationally." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College

Welcome to the United States of America.

Yep. It is a very silly society. After all, we are too dumb to know what is good for us.

You just figured that out...LMAO. There is a reason for that, read about the founding fathers and how they wrote the Constitution and why they did the things they did while creating this nation. Then you might understand why. Oh and don't forget the books about human nature and psychology, sociology and world history to name a few subjects to study before someone can truly understand how things really work and why.