I am saying people have more influence in their given state not to the whole of the nation, California already has great influence with the amount of electors it has now...the most but, that should not mean they speak for the entire nation because of it, and that is the beauty of the system IMO.
And the House and Senate address that concern. The president isn't a regional candidate followed by regional bias. Hillary wasn't from California or promoting a particular regional interest against.
The system as it stands speaks for the states & the people that dwell in them proportionally, I see your point but, disagree with a majority rule vote to have one or two states dictate how an entire nation should live.
One or two don't and wouldn't. It took and will always take more. But you were fine with a majority within those artificial lines determining the outcome. Look, the only difference between the EC and a straight up popular vote is that the EC draws up the majorities in a way that makes property more important than individuals and empowers people who live on the farm more than people who sell their products in the city.
We are just not going to find agreement, you see a problem where I do not, which is more than likely the way the nation sees it as well...50/50.
The nation is largely viewing it through a political lens tainted with personal interest. The right needs it and so won't agree. The left has had it cost them two elections and so they're unhappy. Were roles reversed I have no doubt the right would be championing the "will of the unsilent majority" and the left would be "standing up for the little guy". Nuts to both. My argument and observation isn't meant to serve either, but to align the vote with the principle in play at law and to remove an inarguable inequality in the exercise of right.
I disagree with this assertion as well, the main reason they went against pure democracy was that they historically fail, Madison spoke of this in federalist 10.
I've read Madison. But that's one voice.
Look, I typed up this long bit, but the truth is that I don't need it. The truth is this Madison/mistrust of pure democracy, etc. comes to nothing. Why do I say that? Because the fact remains that the EC isn't a place where people stand up and use a power to thwart socialism. It's a process that has for all but a handful of instances put a rubber stamp of approval on the popular vote.
It isn't protecting anyone. It gave us Obama twice for Pete's sake. It's a little toe that is mostly good for stubbing and causing a bit of cursing and hopping about by the majority from time to rare time. But that rarity remains dangerous, because it speaks to the inequality of power that is contrary to the nation's guiding principles, necessary as it was when our nation was struggling to find a sense of itself. It tells the majority to disrespect the process and institutions. And even a little of that is bad for the rest.
The framers were not simple rubes, they were educated, well read men, studiers of philosophy & history, it wasn't just a passing notion our governmental style was crafted the way it was, and debated heavily before it was ever settled.
The only negative thing I've noted about the Founders is found in the things they got horribly wrong, like slavery. Jefferson, for all his flaws and hypocrisy, was a leading intellectual light of his day and much of what he trained it on was better for it.
Philosophy was at the heart of this decision as well as the history that pure democracy was not a route the framers wanted to take.
Supra and for a very practical reason, as regards the EC. It was a fear of a regionalism that would strangle the infant, fragile union in its first crying breaths. A regionalism in play because of geography and the settling of regions by peoples with similar beliefs and singular competing interests. Without the EC, we'd have pulled ourselves into north, south and west in short order.
Your wrong, it is those that desire a socialistic style of governance and those that desire to reject it, and as we see by the election map that these areas of ideology are isolated & regional.
No, not regional. There's blue in just about every state...except Oklahoma, at a glance. That's one red state.
I live in a socialistic state and know exactly what the marxist liberal crowd is after, they want every citizen to bear the burden of their utopian ideal, and under this form of republic entire states have the ability to reject it, even if the majority in populated areas want to lord over the whole nation with this ideology. This election was rejection of socialistic government yet again, the system works I say...
That's compelling for likened minds, I suspect, but to me you're indistinguishable from the angry Amish guy who'd call you a flamboyant war monger and wonder why he has to pay the freight for sin, except he has not smaller version of the EC as an escape clause.
Swaths...I would call it a smattering nationwide at best, even if that smattering has more people. Maybe marxist liberals need to spread out if they want to accomplish the goal of deconstructing the constitution
Maybe you should stop trying to put a singular, distorted face on a people much less likely to be uniform in their beliefs that the party that casts out their own moderates as RINOs.
Are you right? I don't think so...It will take more than a declaration to prove it,
I've given you a lot more than declaration. But I can run a river to your door. I can't make you wade into it.
and create a super majority that agrees to change it.
That's the idea.
I do however take issue with amendments made to the pillars that the government was built on for the whims of the populace, and the 17th did just that.
To my mind that simply underscores my point about the fading of that fledgling concern and the slow investment in founding principles of equality and empowerment. The unfortunate thing is that it halted there...but given how the EC performed, again, I suppose it wasn't much of an imposition.
I would say the "or" (I did forget it) is leave it alone the constitution has been perverted enough
A thing designed to grow with its people isn't being perverted by its own process.