Nothing created by humankind is inviolate and unchanging. This includes the Bible, the Quran, the Constitution, the Electoral College.
The last one is an anachronism held over from the infancy of our country. It had a place back when extremely large tracts of our country where sparesely populated rural frontiers. It gave the rural South some semblance of balance against the Industrial North.
But population is more evenly distributed compared to then. Rural states have large urban centers where their population is concentrated. Its time we rethink the Electoral College.
The naysayers who insist eliminating the Electoral College will destroy the Republic are people who grasp onto words, but never delve deeper than that. If eliminating the Electoral College undoes the Republic, then perhaps it was not as enduring as we thought.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Holding power is why certain people never want change. Even when change is reasonable or scientific - if it weakens one's grasp on control, they say no. Easy to see in religion: science says this, so, we just won't believe science, we will believe magic. And force everyone else to do so as well. We will never know how many "leaders" believe the shit they shovel. (Catholic church knew Galileo was right, couldn't let the people know quite yet until they twerked things their way)
Beowulfsfriend
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I read that Galileo insisted that the Copernican vew of the universe was the only true way of looking at it. He had a friend and benefactor in the pope of the time until he got dogmatic about it. He belonged to a society that looked on the sun in a religious way which didn't help his case. In the end, he was threatened by the Inquisition and set free. Science has become even more dogmatic as time goes by.
Agree. The thing became obsolete as soon as they had the Kennedy/Nixon debate on television. If it went away I believe more people might vote in Presidential elections. The person with the most votes should win. That is how a true democracy should work.
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