What I find nonsensical about this blabbering about the electoral college process is that it comes up as a whining point for the sole reasonof the fact that the Dems lost.ChairmanOfTheBoard wrote:it's nonsense because your premise is faulty. you assume it always was and should be one person one vote. it's not.jhu72 wrote:Point is, those states control 27 electoral college votes. For what I take as Los Angeles county only controls 18 electoral college votes. Gives lie to the one man one vote non-sense. Each individual in those 7 states counts as 1.5 Angelinos.
The US is a democratic republic. Power emanates from the people through local representation and ultimately to the federal government. Originally the president was intended to be chosen by congress, they added the electoral process to make sure it was more localized.
The entire point of the republic part of our system is to stem the tyranny of the masses - a concept that SHOULD be near and dear to every liberal's heart.
ah, but there's the rub - Dems are no more liberal than the GOP is conservative.... bang1