(01-11-2019, 10:08 PM)Last42min Wrote: Google tyranny of the majority. I'm not doing your legwork. It's a concept you should know in and out if you want to change it. Enlightenment philosophers certainly knew about it.

I did.  And I've read the Wikipedia article.  And a few of its references.
The phrase was first uttered by JS Mill in Europe in 1870. 
The founders did not use that phrase.  Their concern was demagogues. From my point of view, since 1832, every election has basically been one demagogue versus another. Some of these men may have been benevolent in and of themselves but, the nature of man being what it is, you can bet that many of them would have become dictators if they had the opportunity. The Senate and the courts restrain them.

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(01-11-2019, 10:09 PM)TJBender Wrote: That's because there are more people in California than there are in at least 7 of those 8 states combined. You're kind of proving the need for an Electoral College here.

*Edit: I don't know what happened to the quote. It was Mike saying that Trump got more votes in CA than he did in basically the whole middle of the country combined.

None of the states I listed are swing states.  All of them are completely ignored by the candidates in the current process.  So how does this show anything good about the EC?

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