[Hu Gadarn]

Is it just me or do the 'rats seem bent on self destruction.... I don't know if the electoral college needs to be revamped but a straight up popular vote might be a good thing. A true democracy is something that is achievable with todays technology.

[Dat Mon]

"A true democracy is something that is achievable with todays technology."

True democracy is an abstraction. It can be achieved only in small tightly knit homogeneous communities who have chosen it...much like the old hippie communes.

In most cases, democracy leads inevitably to power struggles, then mob rule, and then to tyranny. Our founding fathers recognized this, and designated our country to be a democratic republic.

We are the United STATES of America, not the United PEOPLES of America.

[gogipper]

This is not a matter of technology. You should study our history, you would know that 'true' democracies are unstable. Mobs rule. Look at the out of control French Revolution. Our forefathers studied history's lessons at length and explained the steadying role of the electoral college. Read the Federalist papers.

Just as an aside, our recent election touched on the the real threat to republican government. That foreign influences can topple them. Think George Soros.

[Snickersnee]

I don't know if the electoral college needs to be revamped but a straight up popular vote might be a good thing. A true democracy is something that is achievable with todays technology.

Horrors!

[Darnright]

>A true democracy is something that is achievable with todays technology.>

The US is a republic, not a democracy. Do you really think people in states like North Dakota or Rhode Island want to be dragged along by the whims of the masses in Los Angeles and New York City?

If this country was run as a true democracy, all a candidate would have to do to win would be to campaign in NY, LA, Chicago, etc. To heck with the little people in Podunk Idaho. Who would care what they think, or about their needs?