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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.
@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.
@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 I consider a system which allows for the candidate with fewer votes to become president quite broken.