It’s not broken if it’s working as intended. The US is a constitutional Republic not a pure democracy. Pure democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what’s for dinner. You won’t always be the wolf, best keep that in mind.
the thing about tyranny of the majority is that it can’t be replaced by tyranny of the minority. it’s absolutely working as our founders intended though: racist, conservative, and biased in favor of the wealthy.
Right except that the electoral system was not designed with that in mind. We have the transcripts of the discussion. It was to keep slavery legal. The method the POTUS was picked originally was to prevent the common person from deciding and instead award the most powerful job to whom the most powerful elites thought best could do it. Which wow even being nice to the argument is pretty bad.
Right, but it was never about the popular vote. The popular vote doesn’t decide elections, never has.
Yes, but by the same token, you can’t honestly say that America chose him to be president. We did not. Our broken electoral system did.
It’s not broken if it’s working as intended. The US is a constitutional Republic not a pure democracy. Pure democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what’s for dinner. You won’t always be the wolf, best keep that in mind.
the thing about tyranny of the majority is that it can’t be replaced by tyranny of the minority. it’s absolutely working as our founders intended though: racist, conservative, and biased in favor of the wealthy.
The intent was to keep a populist tyrant like Trump out of office, so it most certainly is not working as intended.
Oh right I keep forgetting some people believe Trump is literally Hitler
No, just figuratively.
Right except that the electoral system was not designed with that in mind. We have the transcripts of the discussion. It was to keep slavery legal. The method the POTUS was picked originally was to prevent the common person from deciding and instead award the most powerful job to whom the most powerful elites thought best could do it. Which wow even being nice to the argument is pretty bad.
Interesting, I’d like to read those transcripts if you have a source.
Sure. You can cheat and just look up the history of the electoral college or you can dive into the notes of the second constitutional convention.
I’m aware. I don’t approve. Know it won’t change.
^ Evergreen comment about life in America.