I happen to have a print of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” in my living room. — Noah Te Stroete
My gosh, I think you're serious. I yield! — tim wood
I prefer to think of you as deadly serious. There are quite enough dead serious people, and we'll both join them soon enough, I myself am not in a hurry....I’m dead serious. — Noah Te Stroete
“Mob mentality” and “angry mob” are terms that the uber wealthy use to denigrate ordinary people like us. — Noah Te Stroete
So why not just get rid of representatives and go with straight democracy using the internet? We vote on everything. Majority rules. — Marchesk
“Unrepresentative” is a better term and more in line with what I intended. — Noah Te Stroete
Right, the senators are elected by the people, but the Senate is not representative of the state populations. — Marchesk
This is more of an issue today than near the founding of the country because the Federal government has become more powerful and the state governments less so. — Marchesk
The electoral college and gerrymandering practices where politicians pick their voters are also unrepresentative. — Noah Te Stroete
Maybe instead the States could split their electoral votes based on percentages instead of winner take all. — Marchesk
I also think reform to the election process needs to happen. Vote ranked choice would be nice. — Marchesk
And also maybe a requirement that the President has to win the popular vote in addition to the electoral college. If they win one but not the other, then there's some sort of runoff or it goes to the House for a vote. — Marchesk
The state governments are redundant because there are already county and municipal governments. — Noah Te Stroete
it was intended to be a check on the popular vote. — tim wood
That’s because the southern plantation states had a smaller population than the more urban northern states. The electoral college was a bone thrown to the southern states so they would ratify the Constitution. — Noah Te Stroete
Are we playing let's ignore history because we don't like the current party in power? — Marchesk
Time for you to start posting your sources. — tim wood
You simply don't have a sound argument justifying it's modern day existence, because there is none. — Maw
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