Shout it from the rooftops, or the White House, either one'll do: 

But yes, it's great to finally hear a SANE man at the White House podium after 4 years.

1. So you think the issue is in reverse and first past the post encourages bipartisanship instead of the opposite, fair enough. I can see that, but the truth is no one can completely be sure just yet. 

I do hope the Ross Perot run was actually a hint at the possibility and not an anomaly though. 

2. This ignores the issue that it divides the world into four quadrants, not to mention the whole point of a relationship is the fact that there are equals involved. The EU has often been strung along instead of trying to defend its own goals. If you use the "already multipolar" definition of the world instead of the "trends multipolar" view, I can see advantages, but they ignore the existence of countries closer to home that harbor more potential for everyone involved compared to the EU and US turning into a monoblock, as that will just trigger a reaction on the other end and lead to... Cold War II: Electric Boogaloo, if we weren't already there. 

A major issue with this is that it leaves any possibility of a major game changer out: no socialist parties, no far right parties (probably for the best), nothing that deviates from "center-x" or centrism. I don't think the GOP would take the socialist banner and change the Democratic Party back into the conservative one. 

Maybe I am wrong and this will all be forgotten when President Cortez becomes a thing, but I have a sinking feeling it isn't. 

Good one. 

*Rolls eyes* Here we go again, pretending Trump was the worst president in American History when there were Presidents who literally evicted Natives from their land and experimented on minorities and prisoners. 

Welcome back to the non-Twitter world though. Most politicians don't use Twitter as a shoutbox, I'll give you that. 

My issue with your point is that we are discussing two competing ideas but you are now bringing up something that is a con of both of them and then seemingly treating it as if its only a problem for one of them. I don't understand why we are having this conversation in the context of EC vs Popular vote and you have failed to explain how this is relevant. 

I see no real value in debating whether what you say is true (and I have my doubts) until it is established how this is relevant.

Because my problem isn't with one or the other but the viability of either. This is relevant because the EC might be preventing the countryside population from being essentially disenfranchised in a reversal of what is the case with the GOP now. The only way out of this would be to make it so it could always go either way. 

Sadly, I don't think anyone can establish whether this is true or not because we're in uncharted territory in this regard. The EC protecting flyover country from a "tyranny of the majority" or the Popular Vote being flexible enough that the interests of said people could feasibly be represented by a president they helped win are both things that are unknowable at this point. I'm just saying it's not the magic bullet everyone believes it is in a country that was literally founded on what was called "The Great Compromise" and that would've potentially collapsed otherwise (for other reasons as well). 

Another compromise would need to happen to ensure proportional representation. The only true alternative that does this is... parliamentarism. Can't hurt the cities or countryside when the vote at the local level is tied to the Head of Government. 

Immensely refreshing to hear a positive, constructive, coherent and dignified speech about following science, healing division, encouraging cooperation, and properly addressing problems like COVID and climate change. Again, I'm not American, but if I was this is the kind of person I would want leading my country.

lol That actually made me laugh. 

Hopefully it's humanity and they didn't just turn undead.

I will never forget the completely unnecessary presidential/vicepresidential cameos in old movies. Was it really necessary when it wasn't even Trump tower? (Was it shot on site?)

Dow Jones is up nearly 2000 points.Probably in anticipation for an end to those stupid economy killing tariffs which have ground down the US manufacturing since late 2018.