(01-09-2019, 12:20 PM)Kane Wrote:

(01-09-2019, 11:35 AM)Last42min Wrote: It's clear the electoral college is not working as intended. 

Why?
only 5 times ever has the electoral college voted for a POTUS that did not also win the "popular" vote.

It isn't working as intended now all of a sudden because it benefited a Donald Trump presidency (and of course, W before)

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The electoral college protects the people of North Dakota from being controlled by the people of Los Angeles lol

Working as intended is relative to the intent, right? I prefer an EC to direct elections, but what we have now is not what the founding fathers were trying to accomplish. They wanted a system in which locally elected representatives, who knew who they were voting for (character, intelligence, education, etc.), would vote for a representative that would best serve the US. Reason was to triumph over anything else. Consistently appointing men who were in good standing and held accountable to the people would help the nation end up with the best governor. The EC does not work like that. I don't even know who my electoral college representative was last election. He may as well be a nameless, faceless figure. 

To paraphrase James Madison, if there were a village of 6000 Socrates, the democracy would still end up in mob rule. The point is that it is human nature for people to move towards sentiment and throw reason to the wayside.

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