Just reconfigure the Senate already.
Within a State which does not represent all States.
I am very much in favor of governors being elected via an EC system.
What about the out side influences like China, Soros, CB, New World Order?
They want to distroy America!
Yeah it seems like an impossible endeavor at least in my lifetime.
And thatâs really your whole premise, isnât?
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You said I am âpromotingâ Popular vote but because we are Democratic Republic⌠I cant promote popular vote?
What?
No, they donât.
1 person, 1 vote.
Why anyone would oppose that is beyond me.
Why should a Trump vote in CA be thrown away because of the state you live in? The president is the president of ALL STATES. Therefore, those votes should have equal weight.
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The question to ask is what are the pros and cons of the Electoral College system v a popular vote system or even some other system.
The EC is what the Founders came up with (in part) to make sure recall the regions of the country would have a say in the PresidencyâŚand I personally think that is a good thing.
The EC is only a problem today because we have two sides who believe in one size fits all policies (GOP can deny this until they are blue in their collective faces, but itâs true), and those policies are utterly at variance.
No matter how we elect a President those clashing views of reality arenât going away.
To what?
no they donât. they represent their constituencies. the senate was designed to give state governments a voice in the federal government, protect states authorities and exorcise the sovereign functions of the states on their behalf.
the constitution is a compact between three parties, one was cut out.
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It is the âUnited Statesâ not âThe Stateâ.
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This doesnât make sense to me for a Presidential election.
Why is a Trump vote in Alabama worth more than a Trump vote in CA? Both citizens are voting for the same person, the same policies. Under EC, The Alabama Trump voter has more power because their vote actually counts. But they are voting for the same thingâŚ
It doesnât make sense
Donât see how this statement changes/counters anything I said.
I know.
The system youâre talking about is used in the EU and itâs failing as well and it didnât start in 1776 but 1965 and they are always on the precipice of collapse with lsmaller states threatening to leave because their voice isnât either listened to or there laws are over-seeded at Brussels. And just like in the EU the big states would dominate and have all the say. As of now Germany and France is the EU and every other country is their b*****. The states with the money dominate the EU and have all the say. So if that happened here and California wanted âXâ law put in place it would be put in place.
A popular vote isnât some revolutionary idea that countries hasnât tried before some work some donât but whatâs interesting is places like the EU was trying to emulate the United States system and here we are talking about trying to emulate the European Unionâs. One can see that thereâs problems with both systems, people seem to forget there will never be perfection, or question how did we arrive at this moment so fast.
A much better solution for a country that has no common ground with its neighbor instead of trying to force them into irrelevance (Never Works) would be the three state solution.
P.S. The B word didnât get auto filtered donât want to get banned.
Itâs very relevant.
The house of representatives wasnât artificially capped when the system was designed. Because every state must have at least one congressman, that cap ensures the electoral college becomes more defective each election.
Itâs allowed in that context. What you canât do is call a woman that word.
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why does the Alabama vote count and the California vote doesnât?
Yes, they do.
I understand the desire to have 50 little countriesâŚbut we do have a federal government.
