Great. More people telling me what I think:
You want to elect every office like they are all the same.
No. I never said that or implied it. Let’s do this again:
The OP writes:
The talk in another post about figuring out ways to eliminate the electoral college means only one thing: the country should be ran according to the whims and values of city dwellers, and to hell with those who live in flyover country.
But it doesn’t mean that thing. The OP just claims that it means that. We are talking about the electoral college and the problems with it. I wrote:
The electoral college warps the voting process in such a way that (to take one example) one vote in Wyoming counts more than three votes in California. I don’t think people in Wyoming are superior to people in California, or vice versa. But if it’s terrible for Californians and New Yorkers to run the country according to their whims, why doesn’t the same principle apply to the problem of Montanans and Idahoans, with their disproportionate representative political power, running the country according to their whims—especially when most people don’t live in rural areas? It’s not unreasonable to find that unfair and a little ridiculous. How can you not see that, whether you agree or not that the system should be changed?
What do you dispute there? Again, why is it bad for New Yorkers and Californians to (in the words of the OP) to run the country according to their “whims and values” (since, according to the OP, that’s what the electoral college prevents), but it’s fine for Idahoans and Montanans to exercise out-sized political representation to impose their “whims and values,” especially when most actual citizens live elsewhere?
Even if you like the electoral college, you have to concede that we have a point re: the relative value of individual votes. And if you’re just going to shrug your shoulders and say, Too bad, I guess that’s fine, too. But what disparity between electoral college vote and popular vote do you think it will take before a majority of unrepresented Americans say, ■■■■ minority rule? I have no desire to find out.
Also, you were pretty quick to give me ■■■■ about Godwin, or whatever, when I made perfectly reasonable historical connections, but are totally fine with (didn’t even notice?) the OP’s half-assed comparisons of the American left to purveyors of genocide in the Soviet Union. No worries: I know you won’t delete it. But you’re not fooling anyone.
