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If you think that’s bad, then the electoral college is worse. A minority can enslave the majority, and we aren’t talking about a minority of more qualified people. Just people who live in more rural areas.
Really? You think the minority can enslave the majority?
I don't like the way you said not qualified people, just more rural areas. What makes a city dweller more qualified? Are you suggesting that it is right to act like a tyrant over others, because they are rural and less "qualified" in your opinion?
I think rural people have a greater understanding of hard work, and what made American into the lone super power of the world, a bit more than welfare recipients, ivy league professors who have never worked a day in their life, and soccer moms who think meat and vegetables come from the grocery store. Having relatives who ran a farm, they have a far better understanding of hard work, than city people.
I don't see the minority trying to take away the livelihood of the majority, the way that the majority tried to drive Cliven Bundy into poverty by preventing him from grazing his cattle.
Besides, most of the power is in Congress, at least according to the constitution it should be. Therefore, it would be impossible for enslavement by the minority over the majority. The least of the states has only two senators, and a few house reps. Having a greater say on who signs, or vetos a bill, doesn't make them capable of passing a law saying we can enslave California. That is crazy talk.
The president has no ability to bring forward a bill. He can only sign or veto it.
However, for the sake of argument, let us even suggest that what you said is applicable.
You do realize that every single election is a rule of the minority. You know that right?
I'm not under the illusion that the electoral system is a perfect system. But if you want to complain about minority ruling the majority, we will end up with that under either system.
In a pure democracy, where people are elected by a pure majority vote, it is still a minority rule system. In 2008 when Obama won the election, he only had..... 69.4 Million votes. There were 304 Million people in the country in 2008.
So don't give me this idea you don't want to a rule of the minority. You do.
I seek only to try and give those in sparely populated states, not an equal voice, but a fighting chance against states with massive numbers of people. There will never be equality in any system. But we can mitigate the differences slightly.
I think that is a worth while way of doing it, and the founders agree with me. And quite frankly, their system created the most powerful country the world has ever known, vastly better than civilizations the have been around for thousands of years.
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