(12-24-2016, 07:40 PM)radind Wrote:(12-24-2016, 07:20 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So it was radind, in addition to making sure the slave states joined the union. I say 1) let the slave states go if they want, and 2) establish a parliamentary system, and thus end the need for the compromise.
As a compromise, the electoral college now does not have any relevance. It does not represent the people.
The former 'slave states' are no longer slave states. I am hearing more about leaving from the liberal progressives.
The electoral college still protects the rights of the smaller states.
The compromise necessary in 1780s to protect 'small' states is no longer necessary. Maybe it would make some sense for some of the 'bigger' states (California, Texas, and Florida, especially) to break into smaller ones.
Maybe we liberals do not trust the President-Elect with out civil liberties and expect economic conditions to get far worse very quickly.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.