Nem said:
Err...? So you want to give countryside people more power so they rule over the ones in the coast? And this is fair and democratic how? I think the whole problem is the perception of interior vs coast. It's the same country! This is not unique to the USA. It doesn't mean people on the coast aren't more or less important than the ones in the interior. Everyone is the same regardless of where you live. 1 person = 1 vote. Equality. That is what democracy is. And quite honestly i'm sick of listening to the Hillary is crooked BS. No, Trump is crooked! And anyone with a shred of common sense could've seen that. |
Yeah, because for every Billy Joe, there are 10 Wills. In other words, the power was only enough to counter the numerical advantage that urban residents will always have. This does seem fair.
Because if it wasn't this way, Donald then was right. He'd have campaigned in California and shifted some votes to his favor. If this wasn't the case, then California might have decided every election even though the state's dyed with blue. In other words, GOP might as well disband itself, because as long as California was a thing, the GOP will never win an election.
Think of the system the EU has and what might occur with Russia on board. They have more people than all other European countries and they'd override any vote from the other countries. Same thing with California. They pack the weight of half the country on their own, so their power must be limited in some way. One person = One vote works only when the ideological divide between city and the country isn't as stark as it's in America. Think of this as the cities always voting one way and the countryside voting the other and then a few regions swinging back and forth and deciding the election. Since cities always vote democrat and the majority of the US population lives in cities, there will be no democracy. Cities don't change the way they do in Europe. A bipartisan party system limits your choices to center right and left and no city dwellers vote GOP unless something unusual has happened.
80 percent of the US was urbanized as of the last census. At least 60 percent live in blue states. How the hell will the party of the countryside stand a chance?
Long story short, this was fair for the simple reason that if it were down to votes only, people on the countryside will never see their candidate of choice win (or will do rarely) and their problems will be seen as less important than those of the cities where the majority of the population lives.
To be honest with you, Donald's brash and loud, but he's not crooked. Hillary was. No person who insists their country should occupy a special role in world geopolitics should be given the right to rule. We're equal IN THE WORLD and fairness between two different demographics must be enforced when otherwise the demographic loses every single time.
Source: The Convention approved the Committee's Electoral College proposal, with minor modifications, on September 6, 1787. Delegates from the small states generally favored the Electoral College out of concern large states would otherwise control presidential elections.
Or as I like to call it... The US doesn't work like a country, it works like a group of countries with one representative.
