Thread by @K_Thomas_Ross

Bizarre as it may seem, this was the original design for the EC. Geniocracy. A gathering nonpartisan sagacious white men (sic), who would discuss the merits of various persons & decided on the best and wisest person in the country to be pres. Ie, George Washington.

(As naive as that sounds, it certainly would not have picked tRumP.) The Constitution does not even say they are to be elected by the people. The problem, of course, is how to find and pick 538 wise, nonpartisan people capable of making that decision.

You and I could name some (i.e, @maddow, @SteveKornacki, @JoyAnnReid). But for the people across the street, it would be Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Ted Nugent.

So, obviously, the only possible choice is the democratic one, in which the majority of Americans vote, and their votes are meaningful. Get rid of the EC.

The EC is terrible, not just because of its inequalities, but, even more, because only the Swing states matter in most elections. PA, Mich and Wisc should not pick the pres. Nor Russia, FL or OH.

For Congress, a true democratic republic would also require getting rid of (or greatly reforming the election of) the Senate, in which half are elected by states with 24% of the population. And most of those are rural and white.

The formal name for a redneck government? Idiocracy. Agrarianism. Kakistocracy – rule by the least qualified.

Another highly undemocratic party of our government is the House of Representative is also highly undemocratic. So many votes are wasted. For example, for decades my 2 senators and ‘representative’ were GOP. In what way, shape or form was my vote counted?

Few major advanced industrialized ‘republics’ use our system of single-winner-take-all elections, which is called First-Past-the-Post. The other countries are the UK (whom we got it from), and another former colony, Canada. Aussies & NZ abandoned it.

In real democratic republics, people vote, not for local individuals, but for political parties. No party wins a majority. Various parties collect for form ruling coalition govts. Until the extremism of the last decade, all of these coalitions were left-center or right-center.