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>Actually, I think it makes sense from the point of view of making every vote equal As I understand it, they weren't supposed to represent everybody equally at
by coldtea 2y ago
>Actually, I think it makes sense from the point of view of making every vote equal
As I understand it, they weren't supposed to represent everybody equally at the individual level, but to give representation to the 50 states, not have big states swallow small ones.
- krapp 2y agoAmong other rationales, the intent behind the Electoral College was to give outsized political representation to slaveowning states to keep them in the union, because otherwise a popular vote would give a demographic advantage to Northern abolitionists and free Black people. Presumably in the Year of our Lord 2024 the preservation of slavery as an institution is no longer an issue for the South, and a simple cost benefit analysis between remaining part of the world's last superpower or Balkanizing would be sufficient to keep them in.
- coldtea 2y ago>Presumably in the Year of our Lord 2024 the preservation of slavery as an institution is no longer an issue for the South The preservation of the independence of states and their say in federal level can very well still be... One of those "among other rationales", summarily dismissed for a cherry-picked one...