15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by noir_lord on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:29AM (#20766189)

> After 10 years in DC working in political circles, I can tell you that very little is actually changing. The giant, faceless bureaucracy still runs most of the show.

Maybe but aren't you in danger of missing the big changes coming precisely because you are inside the bubble?

A political equivalent to "let them eat cake".

As an outside observer to the US it does seem like the pressure has to give somewhere soon at some point (and in a few other western democracies including my own though I think the US is further down the pipe on this one).

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by caseysoftware on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:37AM (#20768516)

Valid line of reasoning but I'm 10 years out from that world specifically because the bubble was/is ugly.

I think you're 100% right that there's building pressure and something will give but that's precisely because things haven't changed much. If the general populace decides "no matter how I vote, things don't change" some will lose hope and give up.. while others will look to other approaches.

(And those other approaches aren't usually good.)

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