States are a relic of the past. It’s time to get rid of them.

Washington Post ^ | November 15, 2016 | Lawrence R. Samuel

[C19fan]

While Donald Trump resoundingly won the electoral college — the state-based “point system” we’ve used in presidential elections for more than two centuries — Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 780,000 as of a week out of the election. In other words, more Americans wanted Clinton to win, reason enough to revisit the wisdom of using the electoral college to determine elections. But a larger, more important argument is often overlooked in this ongoing debate.

[C19fan]

Another Year 0 "thinker". Make the US like France where everything is dictated by the center.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Without the EC, California would elect our presidents and the rest of us would be serfs.

[MarkeyD]

More “Americans”?

[Enterprise]

"States are a relic of the past. It’s time to get rid of them."

The Washington Post is a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of it.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Screw you. You’ll never get rid of states. You just want your way, centralized inefficient dictatorial powers

[glennaro]

The total absence of reasoning and wisdom in the Left’s hyper-emotionalism following the sound rejection of their policies by the American people is truly amazing to behold.

[KC_Lion]

Like how they did in East Germany?

Ah, Communism.

Everything that is old is new again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_East_Germany

[C210N]

What a great idea. Let’s start by repealing the 17th amendment.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Funny that going into the election, convinced that Clinton had it in the bag, these people weren't complaining. Now, after the fact, they suddenly want to burn the whole system down.

Tough titty, snowflakes. MAGA!

[Leep]

If it doesn’t work anywhere else it won’t work here as well.
Ironic the Mexico has much stricter emigration laws than we do.
Interesting that we can’t go to Canada without a passport.

[frogjerk]

Easy fix to the EC “problem”. The problem is not the Constitution but the Dimocrats platform. Fix the platform and move to the right and they will win more states.

[Dead Corpse]

We need to come up with a way to change that. How do we “revert” places like New York and California back to the side of sanity?

There has to be a way.

[BRL]

They people hate diversity.

[VanShuyten]

Paper media are so 17th century.
They’re a waste of natural resources and a source of pollution.
They’re a relic of the past and need to go.

[Vaquero]

Not on my watch

MOLON LABE.

[RoseofTexas]

We’ll get rid of the EV when Calimexico secedes and ALL the illegal immigrants are shipped out!! FAIR IS FAIR!!!!!

[Little Ray]

The several states are supposed individual laboratories for Liberty; participants vote for or against the experiments with their feet.
It would be just like ‘Progressive’ to want to put an end to this.

[BitWielder1]

This is the mindset of globalists: Bigger government is always better.
Little people, which includes states that are larger than many countries, don't understand what's best for them.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

The Federal Government is the relic. Time to get rid of it.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

It has been estimated recently that 3 millions illegal aliens voted for Hillary!

Stick to the facts!