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Nothing reinforces the feeling of disenfranchisement than having no direct impact on how the most powerful single government is elected. The Electoral College
by notfromhere 7y ago
Nothing reinforces the feeling of disenfranchisement than having no direct impact on how the most powerful single government is elected.
The Electoral College is fundamentally undemocratic and the lack of democracy de-legitimizes the office.
- WarDores 7y agoWhy does direct democracy confer legitimacy? Does the Supreme Court not have legitimate authority? I don't see a correlation.
- notfromhere 7y agobecause legitimate government is based on the consent of the governed? Supreme Court justices are picked by popularly elected Senators. It's not even direct democracy, its a representative democracy. Except in the case of the presidency we're not even allowed to directly pick our representative in the executive branch.
- kd5bjo 7y ago> Supreme Court justices are picked by popularly elected Senators. Not exactly; they’re selected by the President and then confirmed by the Senate, which wasn’t popularly elected until 1913.
- notfromhere 7y agoSenators were legitimized through popular elections since before the whole body was appointed via backroom deals with state legislatures, and have been popularly elected for over 100 years.