(May 14, 2017 at 4:55 pm)Iroscato Wrote:(May 14, 2017 at 4:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Nope sorry, you don't simply scrap a system, you offer up something to replace it with that works just as well or better.
Popular vote would be a better system than the horrendously outdated EC. Not perfect by any means, and the US is currently nowhere near ready for a proportional-representation system (not mention several centuries and a couple dozen average IQ points away from a true direct democracy) but it would be a start.
I don't think you seem to understand, if our current crop of morons in Congress had the founders in hand you'd know Trump is the type of asshole the founders had in mind when they came up with the EC.
The electors are supposed to be independent from both the congress and the voters, and if they had understood how nuts Trump was, they DID have the option of saying "NO" even though the voters spoke. The EC was supposed to prevent the rise of tyranny. Now it still is only 1 tool, we also have power of impeachment, and under no circumstance in any case can Trump do more than 8 years, he still has to run again 2020.
I would leave it alone, but tweak federal law that after a certain amount the districts cannot get lopsided. I'd also get a Dem president in 2020 to balance the SCOTUS and get rid of Citizens United.
If you are going to say that no system is perfect and I agree, then this changes nothing for me and you still have not offered up a thing in any case.
