I remember being in 3rd grade and learning about the electoral college and thinking, "that's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of". Still true to this day.
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I dunno. I kinda think it’s cool that a state twenty times smaller than my own (Alaska, California) gets an equal share of say to my own. /s
California electoral votes: 55
Alaska electoral votes: 3
California - population 39 million 0.000000128205128 votes per capita
Alaska - population 734 thousand - 0.00000408719 votes per capita
So Alaskans count ~3x as much as Californians.
If the numbers are correct, it would mean about 30 times more influence, not 3
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That’s great but do an electoral college majority want to end the electoral college?
Yeah this headline is like "animals disapprove of farm"
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Can't believe Americans have become so anti-education.
Given there are only two major institutions that are capable of winning under the current rules, one of the two institutions figured out it's advantageous not to have highly educated constituents.
Over the period of about two generations they've managed to rig it so that only the upper class can manage to get a fair education. So the poor malleable people will vote for whoever they're told to vote for, and the ultra-rich will vote for the side that is most advantageous to them.
In a time where we should be trying to get as much education into every living being that we can, degenerates are using a lack of education as a wedge to stay in power.
stupid is as stupid does.
I'm not sure why this is surprising to you.
I think this is a "college" joke, not a political statement. Enhanced by the joke itself being supported by the teller's implied lack of understanding about what the electoral college is.
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It's always been this way. But now they just can talk to each other and blast their views online.
sorry, I asked the parliamentarian if we could do democracy today and he told me to go fuck myself :/
I think a bigger component in making this happen is instituting ranked choice voting. Political parties are private institutions that have amassed entirely too much power over our country. Sure, we can vote but electoral college or popular voting and we still are stuck with a candidate selected by one of two private institutions. These private entities are able to control elected officials who stray too far from the party line. As long as large political parties control the candidates our vote holds less power.
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We could also just make it irrelevant by expanding Congress radically. Adding back all the seats we missed when we froze the numbers in the 1940s. Even better, we were slipping on the ratio of representatives to people even back then so we could go back to the original ratio or something in between. That would be a max of around 10,000 representatives, but you would be far more familiar with your representative and they could do elections without the support of the economic elite or being rich.
That doesn't require an amendment and it functionally obliterates this tyranny of the minority.
This doesn't make the electoral college irrelevant, it just rebalances the votes per state so they're closer to proportional. California Republicans and Texas Democrats are still disenfranchised even if their states get a lot more votes.
Yeah but that last hurdle takes a lot more to get over and in the meantime we've done something we should have anyways.
We could also just make it irrelevant by expanding Congress radically. Adding back all the seats we missed when we froze the numbers in the 1940s.
or we could just do a CGPgrey and rework the math because we have computers now.
Yup, that too
Doesn't change the number of senators, sadly.
yeah no, that should be the same, unless you wanted the senate to hold a proportional amount of seating to the house for some reason.
The senate and house are two independent bodies, they work together, and at odds simultaneously, the point is that the senate is different.
That was always the point of the system though. And if we need to 86 the Senate then having them constantly blocking the house provides that momentum. It would be a huge fight.
This is insane but I like it
Proper representation shouldn't be so unthinkable. And we could achieve the idea of better representation with one or two thousand. We don't need to go to ten thousand yet.
Insane, but modern technology makes it much more feasible today than ever before.