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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've had the same reaction learning about religion 😂
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Then how do you stop urban concerns from completely trouncing rural concerns? Voters from rural areas have valid concerns which are largely opposite of urban voters. If you get rid of electoral college, candidates will campaign in major cities and that's it. Nobody else will matter.
Cities matter more. Sorry, but that's the reality.
Cities are where people live. People matter.
Cities are where culture happens. Culture matters. You're not going to have a big art/music/anything scene in bumbleweed, NE because there aren't enough people there to constitute a scene.
Cities are where economy happens. Money moving around matters. There are more transactions per day in the corner shop by me than a whole week in some country town with 700 residents.
Rural people still have the Senate and local government. Their rep in the house (which should be expanded) also should speak up for their region.
Everyone deserves some minimum respect, but the idea that nowhere-utah is just as important as Queens is insane. A minority holding the majority garbage is not good. Especially when that minority seems fixated on terrible ideas like climate change denial and xenophobia.
That's what the Senate is for. Two senators per state regardless of population. Wyoming has as much of a say as California does.
So the people in cities should just be worth less when they vote? It's a federal vote for a federal office, everyone in the country should count the same.
The individual states already have their own powers which make sure the federal government doesn't make decisions that are bad for those states. And each county and town have their own governments that pass local laws.
I've also heard this argument so many times but I haven't heard any actual examples.
Even if the 10 largest cities all voted Democrat that would only account for 8% of the vote. And not everyone votes the same way in a city either. There are plenty of republicans voting in major cities but their vote doesn't matter because of the college. Long Island went to Trump. NYC still got 400,000 votes for Trump. All this means is more people get a voice.
Sure, then we can have another republican get elected against the will of the people. Clearly rural concerns are more important than preventing authoritarian idiots like trump from being able to undemocratically take power.
Almost like they could be represented in the house or the Senate, right
How do you stop a majority of the electoral college from completely trouncing the concerns of the other states?
As opposed to now where like 10 states are tossups and the rest are locked in?
Which would be replaced with "Can the Democrat win California by a large enough margin?"
Which was literally the case when people complain about Clinton winning the popular vote in 2016 - across the 49 states that aren't California more people voted for Trump, but she won California by such a large margin that she won the popular vote because of California alone. Same thing in 2000, where Gore's popular vote lead was smaller than his margin in CA.
Oh jeeeeez, maybe republicans would have to have real policies that appeal to a majority of Americans, instead of dipshit authoritarian policies that only enrich the already rich and take rights away while mainly pandering to racists in the population at large.
The electoral college is the major reason why the republicans have gone absolutely bugfuck, because they can win with a minority of votes, allowing them to be as undemocratic as they want to be, knowing they have a barely large enough base to squeak through in all the right spots.
And considering the results of the bush and trump presidencies, you're making the argument against the electoral college, because their two picks objectively made the country worse.
FYI Hillary did not win the popular vote just because of California
Also you shouldn’t reward bad actors providing a shit place to live by making their vote count significantly more.
One citizen one vote!
Yes, she did. That there are other combinations of states that she won that combine to have a similar total margin doesn't change that her national margin was smaller than her margin in California. And that's the crux of the argument Snopes makes - she won the national popular vote by 2,833,220 and sure she won California by 4,269,978 votes but there are other states she won that if added together had a combined margin in her favor of more than 2,833,220 votes and also just her California votes alone wouldn't be enough to exceed Trump's vote count nationwide so it doesn't count.
Which is...kinda ridiculous? It's a big stretch for a frankly kinda dumb claim.
and what has that gotten us? rural communities are subsidized out the wazoo as the urban centers across America are strangled and starved. as the more powerful minority of people is catered too
You should read what the electoral college does, because that's not what it does.
Not the previous commenter, but I'm pretty certain that the, apparently fictional book, that Leave Burton showed on either The Daily Show, or Last Week Tonight, entitled It's all Because of Racism, would cover what the EC's actual purpose is. Though in this particular case it may be fairer to say classism.
Pretty sure the rural concerns trumped the urban ones in the last elections in the Netherlands.