Ah, then in that case let’s ban corporate lobbying, switch to a ranked voter system like most every normal 1st world country, make elections merit and vote based rather than wealth and connections based. Heavy investigations on all candidates need to be carried out, including on the current president, and all non-life threatening data must be public knowledge in relation to a politician’s lives and tax documents. Oh, and destroy the electoral college while we’re at it, the people decide, not a bunch of unelected officials with little regard for their constituents.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
The electoral college is the last major check remaining on rampant democracy, and am important bastion of states rights and liberty that I thank God the Left has not yet destroyed. The electoral college checks the excesses of mob rule, ensures representation of the whole Confederacy instead of just the urban centres growing like ugly tumours on an otherwise healthy body. It preserves a degree of autonomy for the states and allows them to have a direct role in choosing the president. But it's not currently functioning as the Founders intended – they wanted not a winner-take-the-whol… Read more
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
The electoral college shifts the very value of a vote towards states with almost no one living there at all, and destroys any semblance of the very essence of a democratic-republic anyway. The rest of the world looks down upon an electoral college, and we’ve long since lost the need for it at all. Want the states to have more governmental power? I’m actually all for the idea of state legislatures voting in congressmen, it’s a good method of balance and allows local politicians to have more power in individual states while also allowing bodies like the senate to actually keep… Read more
@Ars-Gratia-Artis3mos3MO
Yeah, my relative Mr. Madison may have developed a little too convoluted of a system. I think the popular vote alone might be a little bit of a problem, but I'm not against a new system.
