Founding Fathers knew what they were about.
Maybe that whole democracy/voting thing is outdated too.
I guess we should just let our betters pick our presidents from now on.
Of course not. It would mean permanent disenfranchisement of voters in states without large population centers.
Absurd.
The Founders were much wiser than Sociology professors, it seems.
Direct democracy does not work — ask the classical Greeks — so a republic was formed in order to balance the great dung heaps of the cities with the agrarian population’s interests. This was based upon observation of the (even then) decadence of Europe.
Today this is even more important as that buffer is needed to balance the rapidly shifting tides of fashion that sweap the internet which are amplified by forces that do not mean well for the U.S.
No. States elect the President not the people as this is the United States of America.
Founding Fathers knew what they were about.
I say letting illegals vote should be abolished.
Should NYC, Chicago and CA decide elections? I think not.
Sure with changes to voting structure. Only one day to vote period. Must be a citizen to vote. Hand stamped when you vote, and photo taken with name on it. See how many will go vote then...
an understandable position but one I strongly disagree with.
while we’re at it, let’s repeal the 17th amendment and let the states select their own members to send to the US Senate
Without the electoral college, the candidate favorite of NY and CA would win every election from now on. Our founding fathers were brilliant.
And put us all at the mercy of the urban “cheat” islands? I don’t think so.
our Founding Fathers devised a very careful balanced system
as our Republic
they deliberately and very firmly did NOT establish or want a “democracy”
not in a million years. Our founders recognized that both monarchy/dictatorship and democracy are horrible and dangerous forms of government. The people suffer and lose their liberties (and often lose their very lives) under both.
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““I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” John Adams, one of our Founding Fathers and US President
No, no, a thousand times, NO!
Count the absentee votes, especially the military votes.
I wish President-Elect Trump would demand it.
No way. I have had to educate some people on FB who wanted to do away with it. What are they being taught in school? We learned about that in the good ole days. Bless their hearts.
We are a republic, made up of states. Nothing has changed in that respect since 1788 when the Constitution was ratified, so therefore the system can not be called archaic, outdated, an anachronism, or any other such thing. The only thing that has changed is that we have rabid left-wing communists who must destroy every aspect of what makes the US great.
If the blue states want to split their electoral votes based on popular vote, that is their prerogative. Forcing the smaller states to be disenfranchised from the vote is unacceptable.
They’d be praising it to the highest heaven if Trump had won the popular vote and Hillary had one the Electoral College.
It would have been proof that the system worked as designed.
Nope
Well, I guess they should abolish the U.S. Senate first then.
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Just brilliant there professor. In 2013, half of the population was clustered in 146 counties out of 3000 counties in the us. We may not be college educated, but we sure can figure out you want 5% of the field is. While you are at it, you might as well say the other 95% of the counties should not have any say in making new laws. After all, we don’t represent the majority. Please try telling that to the mighty fine people of my state they have no right to representation in Washington. See how far that gets you.