(October 15, 2020 at 9:18 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Peoples sudden distaste for the electoral college is informed by a specific misuse of the electoral college. If we burnt down everything that bad actors gamed we'd be standing on a pile of ash by now.
It's a deliberately anti-democratic mechanism designed to ensure that slavery remained legal in the United State by giving the south a preponderance of power even when it became a minority.
It, like quite a lot of the US constitution, should be burnt to the ground.
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