15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by corodra on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:44PM (#20762727)

To your arguement about why do LA residents count less. I say it's not neccesarily less. Just differently. Do you want someone who has never farmed in their lives. Probably never even picked up a shovel, have a say in the rules and regs about agriculture throughout the midwest? Same goes vice versa. Country folk who hate living in concrete jungles shouldn't make rules for city dwellers. Thus an equal vote, isn't equal. Because my one vote for some other industry I don't know isn't fair for someone who lives it.

That was the original point to electoral votes and a representative government system. It's not that the system doesn't work, it's been perverted. If we can end the gerrymandering and other political machine issues, we'd have a better system. Not perfect. But I think its steered the wrong way with political affiliation as platform rather than constituent needs.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by khuey on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:06PM (#20762880)

This cuts both ways, why should someone who lives in an area with hardly any immigrants be making policy for people who live in places like LA which are full of them?

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by corodra on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:28PM (#20763040)

Not arguing. I did say vice versa applies to my example.

But this is the point to the whole system. It's supposed to attempt to keep everyone's needs in mind. Gov body structures were originally figured out for countries the size of... Florida. Maybe California. Thus, your nation has roughly the same "issues" and "needs". But the USA is the "same" country for 3,000 miles of driving. West and east coast Americans are not the same. New Englanders and Southerners are not the same. West coast and is not the save as Mid-westerners. Hell, even folks on the Pacific Northwest are not the same as Californians. Then you have Texans. Shit, let's not forget Hawaii and Alaskans. Different land. Different climates. WAY different industries and lifestyles. I learned this first hand since I've traveled and lived in different parts of the country every 1-2 years (roughly).

So yea. Pretending like axing the electoral college is just a simple fix that solves this super simple problem... you're out of your god damn mind.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by thomascgalvin on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:04PM (#20763292)

> I say it's not neccesarily less. Just differently.

So ... separate but equal?

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by sokoloff on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:51PM (#20763595)

In what way are they segregated? This seems like a flip and irrelevant inflammatory comment to me.

Apologies if there’s a direct linkage that I’m simply missing

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