12-24-2016, 04:42 PM
(12-24-2016, 09:31 AM)radind Wrote:(12-23-2016, 10:06 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(12-23-2016, 02:36 PM)radind Wrote: The electoral college is an integral part of our Republic. I am looking forward to the next four years.
If it existed to protect the rights of States that got to represent non-voting persons at a rate of three-fifths of a free person, then it is obsolete because the rationale is no longer valid. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
I dread the next four years in which wealth and corporate power are effectively represented and people are not. Government representing economic power is either feudal or fascist.
The electoral college is not obsolete because it still protects the rights of the smaller states.
The electoral college does not protect any "rights," except for the right of smaller states to have more say in who is elected president than larger states. At the least, it is undemocratic, and this election proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt.