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A popular vote would be awful. Would incentivize just campaigning to get as many people to vote as possible in the highest density population centers, meanwhil
by corporate_shi11 7y ago
A popular vote would be awful.
Would incentivize just campaigning to get as many people to vote as possible in the highest density population centers, meanwhile most people don't even pay attention to politics and have no interest in it.
These people really should not be voting in the first place and a system which encourages vote harvesting even more than it already is encouraged is not a step in the right direction.
- save_ferris 7y ago> a system which encourages vote harvesting even more than it already is is encouraged is not a step in the right direction Are you arguing that it’s bad when all Americans are encouraged to vote? That sounds like a functional democracy to me.
- corporate_shi11 7y agoYes, encouraging everyone to vote is bad. I agree with many of the Founders that the people often get in their own way, not thinking rationally and focusing only on the short term. The will and petty desire of the mob needs to be balanced against what is really good for the nation in the long run.