i agree with your points on this topic.Robert wrote: The reason why the Electoral College is functional is because the united States are a collection of "states" working together. It is not really one unified nation, but 50 unified states.
Each state selects representatives, senators, and whom they want for president. Their majority vote seeds the electoral college.
This is how republics work, not the way democracies work.
This allows each region, or state, to work more independently and have some autonomy with their citizens and laws. I think this is a very good thing. What works in midtown NYC would not work in upper Michigan.
Even in construction, codes have to be adjusted for differing regions. Laws need the same.
Until federal income tax, taxes were mostly land tax. Although the rural regions were less populated, they often paid a much higher tax per person because of property tax. Allowing cities to dictate federal law would most likely tax rural areas almost out of existence.
While the EC may not be perfect,
it is a good system to find some balance in the presidential elections that bring in the voice of the minority, rural areas, so they are not shut down by the more populated urban centers.
Republics protect the rights of the minority much more than democracies.
This is important even in a presidential election.
this is a good explanation, and, importantly, you are pointing out realities that are often presumed to be the opposite, then accepted as fact. which is a sad way of doing things.
(i believe) the downsides of pure democracies should be common knowledge! (basic history.)
for a country like the U.S., so centered on “leveling playing fields,” it should be a no-brainer that simple democracies are not what is needed or wanted.
no system is, or will be, perfect! a popular delusion.
for the U.S., the republic system serves most, and better than, others.
If you would, i would appreciate your thoughts on possible state-versions of the EC, the idea of helpng prevent big cities “overlording” entire states? .. i see the idea floating, no details. Several states are suffering with this presently. -
The latest trick i read about, coming out of Chicago was in the 2018 Midterms.
There are a few state universities in Illinois, LOTS of Chicago children attend. My county is full of them. Our children were shocked to go to state schools with Chicago’s children, to learn just how inferior they presume we-all are, outside of Chicago city limits!
So, the 2018 election trick Chicago politicians resorted to was to encourage the Chicago children to vote AT SCHOOL, instead of returning to their Chicago homes to vote.
Students were interviewed on local news. They were PROUD of their achievements to sway local votes to Chicago. They were told to do this, and they did. “Pat on the head” stuff.
It’s sad so much of this happens. Hollywood is keen on this.
People who care nothing at all for local people and their needs, deliberately throwing votes to serve their interests ELSEWHERE. The practice is all too common.
