Minority rule is a b-tch. We have become numb to THAT.
The list of things we want but cannot have because of minority rule is long: affordable healthcare, affordable child care, affordable elder care, gun control, reproductive rights, climate action, judicial reform, - - what else?
I always found the Electoral College to be an interesting quirk in our system of government. It wasn't until the Republican party went off the rails that I started seeing it for what it was. For all of the talk about, "we need it to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority", what the hell is just about the tyranny of the minority over the majority? How is that an improvement?!
The electoral college has been adopted by exactly zero of those countries which have looked to our Constitution for their model. There is a reason for that. We have never been democratic at the presidential level; the EC was created by the founders to ensure that "the wrong person never won the WH."
Minority rule is a b-tch. We have become numb to THAT.
The list of things we want but cannot have because of minority rule is long: affordable healthcare, affordable child care, affordable elder care, gun control, reproductive rights, climate action, judicial reform, - - what else?
I always found the Electoral College to be an interesting quirk in our system of government. It wasn't until the Republican party went off the rails that I started seeing it for what it was. For all of the talk about, "we need it to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority", what the hell is just about the tyranny of the minority over the majority? How is that an improvement?!
The electoral college has been adopted by exactly zero of those countries which have looked to our Constitution for their model. There is a reason for that. We have never been democratic at the presidential level; the EC was created by the founders to ensure that "the wrong person never won the WH."
Exactly! I’m baffled too. I keep trying to find excuses for that mindset to elevate the minority, and I come up empty.
The history of this country demonstrates that we are fine with the "tyranny of the minority" so long as it's not an *actual* "minority".
Well played :)