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I'll keep saying it: The Electoral College was not designed to to do what you think it does, It does not do what it was designed to do, and it does not do what you think it does.
The "it preserves the power of small states" argument does not work. The "you'd only need to win four big states" argument does not work. The "it was designed to winnow out unfit candidates" argument does not work.
The only argument is "white people in rural areas should have their vote over-weighed for ... reasons" with the "reasons" varying depending on who's writing the book/essay.
The Founding Fathers were not psychic democracy angels, they were radicals banging against the edges of design and making it up while being very drunk and ultimately being very tired of being in the same room together.
If you told them that one day 2/3rds of the Country would be represented by 1/3 of the Senate, they'd have choked on their rum. And that will happen in MY lifetime, and probably yours. By 2040.
A country could survive the Electoral College, or the Senate, or Gerrymandering combined with the Apportionment Act of 1911. But we're deep into game-able, rigid systems with hard failure points.
Basically, if you wanted to design a giant system that could be disrupted with tiny efforts at key points (Systempunkt) you could hardly do better than the current US. And that's BEFORE the effectiveness of social media. And crazed billionaires. And I mean CRAZED.
Basically, it's Friday and I'm terribly sober, and now you all have to pay the price.
