(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the rights of States that got to represent non-voting persons at a rate of three-fifths of a free person, then it is obsolete because the rationale is no longer valid. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.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 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.