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While I have no love for Trump, and will be quick to admit he is the worst president we ever had, the truth is, the electoral college is important. The main issues with it that I have personally are the changes that were made to laws around how the electorate can choose to vote. But the fundamental principle of the electoral college was a positive one in its original form.
@cm I dunno as someone living in the netherlands it makes a lot of sense to me. And yes america does get that representation in other branches of the government. The idea of leveling the playing ground applies to all the branches, a great system in that regard.
@freemo I consider a system which allows for the candidate with fewer votes to become president quite broken.
@cm Then you must find the EU very broken based on that same logic (votes are not based on the number of people in each country).
@freemo Indeed. the whole system here is broken, it needs to become a proper parliamentary democracy and not a nation state driven thing.
@cm I disagree. I dont think a country that has a small population (something that should be rewarded given the population crisis) should be penalized by having no weight in voting and thus at the whim of the ideals of more populace countries.
@freemo if a lot of people dislike him then how he became a President?
@MominRasool Its really only about half the population that didnt vote for him. Most people just hated hillary more than they hated him. Few people legitimately like him.
@freemo so he won because of the other half population who didn’t cast their votes?
@MominRasool Partly. Thats the issue in every election though, the majority of people don't vote.
@freemo don't you have that representation by state in the senate, vs by head-count in the house? (Uh, and ain't the rural people slaves to their elites, too?).
the electoral college is one of those things about the US where the rest of the world just face-palms.