Or if sensible, then among the minority. They also fail to mention that slavery was abolished 77 years later. It lasted that much longer because the south won the right to count their slaves as 3/5ths for census purposes giving them the majority of electoral votes. The north didn't want them to be allowed to count slaves at all. Something for people to think about when complaining about that compromise, and how it actually extended the life of slavery by many decades. Yet the electoral college continued on as it still does today.
So if their claim had any credibility to it then why keep the electoral college after slavery was abolished?
The answer of course is because they were not trying to create a Democracy, because all Democracies before our Republic was established had ended in abject failure. It was intended to make less populated parts of the country have more say in the process of determining our countries leader.
countries of course should have been country’s