usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · edit-229 days agoWalz: ‘The Electoral College needs to go’thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1756arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·29 days agoThe EC is undemocratic, but the Republican Party would never be able to win the presidency if it was decided by pure popular vote. So, it will never go or even change.
minus-squareT00l_shed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·29 days agoThen, one would argue that the republican party should not government if they are unable to garner the requisit amount of votes!
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·29 days agoBut they are currently in enough of government to block any move that removes their advantage.
minus-squareBytemeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·29 days agoThose who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. And the corrollary, those who ignore peaceful protest signal that only violence will be recognized.
The EC is undemocratic, but the Republican Party would never be able to win the presidency if it was decided by pure popular vote. So, it will never go or even change.
Then, one would argue that the republican party should not government if they are unable to garner the requisit amount of votes!
But they are currently in enough of government to block any move that removes their advantage.
Yup
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
And the corrollary, those who ignore peaceful protest signal that only violence will be recognized.