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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by Redoubts on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:59PM (#20763265)
> It has become evident that the federalist experiment has failed

Not so much failed, but massively misaligned after the civil war. The nation made many compromises at every level for slave power, and should have renegotiated everything afterwards.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by eropple on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:29PM (#20763459)
Agreed. I should have said that American federalism has failed; that misalignment is endemic to America--it goes back as far as the Missouri bleeping Compromise, and that's just the part labeled "America"--and is probably unfixable.

(Though I worry for the EU, too.)

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