>If we removed the electoral college in the US, or if voting day were a national holiday, all those issues would automatically be addressed. The road to hell i

>If we removed the electoral college in the US, or if voting day were a national holiday, all those issues would automatically be addressed. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. >The old and conservative make too powerful a voting block, and it perpetuates every corporate, oligarchic, xenophobic greed cycle one could point to as a rot in our system. I don't think old people are bad because they're just taking government money and have big fancy houses, but largely they do vote the same way and that way they are voting is causing problems. Please refrain from toxic Othering.