Democracy isn’t about preserving the Republican Party. If they shoot themselves in the foot, then tough. The system is set up to filter out extremist views like we’ve been seeing recently. The only reason they’re still around is the electoral college and gerrymandering. Among a lot of other things. BUT the popular vote sure isn’t one of them.
The EC isnt a "core part" of the Constitution. Its a quirk, an artifact left over from placating the slave states (which had small voting populations), explicitly negotiated to extend the 3/5ths compromise to the Presidential election, which all non-slavers wanted to be a popular vote. This is plain historical record. The EC was largely irrelevant until modern times, when the GOP decided to abandon any attempt to appeal to urban voters and went all in on a rural vs city strategy, in which the EC provides a structural advantage.
Are you dumb? Thats exactly what I said. Its an artifact from a 200+ year old negotiation around Slavery. That isnt a "core part" of the Constitution, it can be done away with without impacting anything else.
A conservative in CA has no voice because of the EC and winner takes all allocation of EC seats. There are orders of magnitude's more conservative Californians than there are people in Wyoming total. Rural interests are not the same everywhere. A California orchard owner to rice farmer has different interests than a cattle rancher or homesteader in Wyoming.
If rural voters almost always outnumbered urban voters, and we had one vote per person, everyone would be fine with that.
People keep telling you that, and you keep up with your nonsense about having to "have a voice" over "blue haired" city folks. One vote per person gives everyone a voice.
You cant even name these supposed "rural interests" that would be "ignored" if everyone had the same vote.
One vote per person gives everyone an equal voice. Bizarre that youd call that "anti-democratic". Also bizarre that you frame this as an all or nothing, us against them, issue. Its not.
There are rural people in big states, urban people in small states and folks move from one setting to another all the time. One vote per person gives everyone voice and say.
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u/OGRube May 26 '23
Fuck the electoral college. One citizen one vote. What’s the problem?