I realize you opine a great deal about the governance of a nation unrelated to you in Great Britain. However, it would behoove you to study American government and particularly the Electoral College, the office of President of the Senate, before opining in the way you have here.I want to put forward a simple principle.
If the outgoing administration could based on their opinion throw out the winning vote there would be no democracy.
Democracy relies on the state being able to throw out the current administration and appoint the new administration.
It is what stops it becoming a dictatorship. And this is full understood and agreed to by all participants.
The power behind the principles are the judges who enact the law, the police and army who uphold by force the judgements of the judges and the executive as it is legally held. The reason the army do not rule, is because the army enact orders, and do not question or way up the balances and subtlety. It is why the police are used answerable to the communities they serve.
Pence is part of the outgoing administration acknowledging the passing of power to the next administration, as a symbol of power, but not power itself. Trump in his rants is actually attempting a coup by any means. And the problem with this is if the system starts to intervene the boundaries between the civil service who are not political and the politicians gets blurred, and corruption flows. But Trump by appointing judges to the supreme court thought he had bought the result, by appointing judges to the federal courts thought he had bought them also. In a way he may actually have strengthened the rule of law and reasonable values, while not knowing it, and made the democratic survival of the system more likely.
God used the Babylonians to judge the Israel, Trump has shown who will flock to him for a coup without respecting the true challenges of the day and where our focus needs to be. Who would have thought GM and Ford are on the scrap pile, EV cars are coming with driverless vehicles, with massive driver layoffs. Or working from home, the death of city and town centres, which we are literally witnessing before our eyes.
Do you want to go back to the way it was before?
God bless you
Do I want to go back to the way it was before? Oh, no indeed. In fact, my forefathers and mothers fought to insure the governance of those days would cease and desist when they as a collective kicked the backside of Great Britain back to their side of the pond. In order to form a more perfect union than was afforded when the Brit's were here, and the king thought himself sovereign and God appointed over all.
Your country should try that sometime. You'd LOVE how freedom tastes I assure you.
Whereas now you do your level best to criticize and condemn this country and its system of appointed representatives out of sheer malice and I'd say even envy. You know nothing of what it is to live in America. And yet you have boat loads to condemn about it. Nothing positive to say, while seeking out the most bias, false news sources available from which to glean your "facts" and pursue your anti-America agenda.
I'm posting this because this is a great thread and is one that is relevant for Americans today. Your last remark, negative again as is standard, should not be let to be the last word in it.
And please, don't ask God to bless me when you commit paragraph after paragraph of hate filled vitriol against my homeland.
That's tantamount to someone saying, you and your whole family can roast in Hell for all I care! America SUCKS!..... God bless you.
John 9:31