10th June 2020, 6:32 AM
100% with you on ranked choice voting. Our democracy has become dysfunctional, in dire need of reform. We can't afford to stay in a binary choice. More political parties means more need to compromise. It cannot be one party vs the other in a zero-sum game. That's what allows a scumbag like Mitch McConnell to exploit the system to further the agenda of one party. In times of egregious division of a binary choice, you have Republicans having to accept alt-right nut jobs, and far leftists having to settle for a corporatist, war mongering party.
We cannot get rid of electoral college without having something to replace it. Frustrating as it is, eliminating it would ensure power and representation to be confined to populous cities. If we were to throw it out, it would only be fair to scale back the role of federal government and empower states to mostly govern themselves. Otherwise, flyover states are at the mercy of LA, New York City, Chicago, etc. Is that fair? Rural areas are much different, and setting rules for them based on big cities seems like an awful idea. I'm not well-versed in history, but I feel like there must be some precedent for poor, rural areas being oppressed by rich, big cities.
I know that right now, we're all at the mercy of swing states. That's obviously problematic, but it just seems like getting rid of electoral college would, on the whole, make things worse.
We cannot get rid of electoral college without having something to replace it. Frustrating as it is, eliminating it would ensure power and representation to be confined to populous cities. If we were to throw it out, it would only be fair to scale back the role of federal government and empower states to mostly govern themselves. Otherwise, flyover states are at the mercy of LA, New York City, Chicago, etc. Is that fair? Rural areas are much different, and setting rules for them based on big cities seems like an awful idea. I'm not well-versed in history, but I feel like there must be some precedent for poor, rural areas being oppressed by rich, big cities.
I know that right now, we're all at the mercy of swing states. That's obviously problematic, but it just seems like getting rid of electoral college would, on the whole, make things worse.