In about 20 years, half the US population will live in eight states - Polidicks

You will never remove FPTP so long as money can be stuffed into people's wallets enough to ensure they do not allow FPTP to be disrupted.

I disagree, I think it's unrelated to the issue of representation. The problem is that states are apportioned 2 senators regardless of population, and each state is guaranteed 2 electoral votes. Additionally, each state is guaranteed 1 US Representative, but the number of US representatives is capped at 435, which means that the bigger states only have 385 to pass around amongst each other, meaning that each person in California gets less of a say in national politics than each person in Utah

Then admit that enforcing actual democracy rather than your current sham is the lesser of those evils.

Well Maine was already clearly finished or they never have that problem at all with their elections since 1960s always have three candidate governors race every four years.

A few states that were already likely to vote in a particular direction regardless of other candidates may get FPTP replaced with ranked choice. You were talking about the problem of FPTP, though, which won't in any way be solved by a small, select, group of states going ranked choice. If it's not at least 51% of the Nation, it's still exactly the problem you have now.

The reason for our system is that smaller states refused to sign the constitution originally unless they were given more representation than in a unicameral legislature based on population alone. Since each state at the time was effectively its own country (and are still the size of a country, with their own internal political issues and local governments set up like independent countries), an appropriate comparison would the EU parliament, though the federal government has more power over the states than the EU Parliament. In the EU parliament, they use a similar system to the United States called degressive proportionality, though this system is more explicit in its aim. As a result, "Maltese and Luxembourgish voters have roughly 10x more influence per voter than citizens of the six large countries."

True, but that was then and this is now. Even the founding fathers pondered that every 19 years or so we should take a hard look at the Constitution and consider rewriting whatever parts of it are no longer compatible with our society. We're not who we were then, our states and nation have grown astronomically since and our economy and inter-connectivity are integrated and integral to every state of the nation. I doubt simply because it was so then the founding fathers would advise us to keep it the same now, when it no longer is serving us as it was originally compromised to. There's no reason to compromise on it any more - there's plenty of citizens in all the US' territories - even Alaska, amazingly.

I'm not saying that we should keep the system I'm just fucking sick of _Axel constantly shitting on America like the EU is so much fucking better

In fairness, we do have a lot of faults. I'm expecting the next age of America to be called the 'Reformist Age' where we re-evaluate and codify a lot of shit that we more or less just 'trusted' to be right.

We need a system like in Europe to dissolve congress, remove the president for political reasons, and call emergency elections, rather than having to stick with our shit congress for at minimum 2 years

With a federal recall system I don't trust Repubs to not try to recall all the Dem congressmen for their state for simply being of the wrong party.

It is because they are so comfortable in their seats that things have gotten as bad as they are now.

The Nevada GOP was trying to spam recalls to control the state legislature, even the GOP governor thinks it would have set a bad precedent. (tho Nevada has had over 150 recall efforts in 25 years and it rarely works)

Way to blow a gasket and insult people using dumb clichés for no damn reason. Obese gas churning wanker. By the way, where exactly have I said that the EU is any better? When have I praised the EU electoral system?

Oh no not men and even white men. You know the worst type of men how unsettling. I'm sick of these hypocrites racializing everyone.

Or Round/Runoff Voting, Jungle Primary (which is shouldn't been using yet until Spoiler effect mentality is gone in American political culture) and two other voting systems completely unused and conceptualized like Score Voting and Approval Voting are mentioned by same Electoral reform movements besides promoting Ranked-Choice. Yes sadly for now, But ever since Maine adopted it, It may getting some few to more states like Massachusetts to possibly switching theirs in years through either with or without changing State's constitution.

Is it just me or is referring to a French person as a "snail-eating fuck" actually kinda really derogatory?

It's a cheap way of insulting someone based on their nationality. So yes, it's derogatory, and absolutely intended to be that way. It's a shame that insults must be thrown like this.

Not really since the french actually make good food

And tyranny of the minority is somehow preferable? 30% of the country should have 70% of the voting power? Our electoral college has become hopelessly broken, and changing demographics drag it farther and farther from its intended purpose with every passing year. Contrary to Republican rhetoric, the Electoral College was never supposed to over-represent low population centers -- it simply gave them a minor handicap in the form of a guaranteed minimum of at least three electoral college votes. Beyond that, the voting power of any given state was fully and explicitly intended to scale with population. Electoral College votes dynamically adjusted based on census data to ensure that, beyond the minimum guaranteed voting share, each state was represented by a number of votes that accurately represented their populations. hat stopped in 1913, when the electoral college was frozen. Now, with every passing year, the EC grows less and less representative of the needs and demographics of the country. White rural voters in scarcely populated states have, in many cases, several orders of magnitude more voting power than individuals from elsewhere in the country. While you complain about the "tyranny of the majority," the other 70% of the country is wondering just why the economic, social, cultural, and religious agendas of the few are given higher priority than the agendas and needs of the majority.

Well it seems flaming is no longer bannable so we better get used to that sort of thing becoming more widespread. If he wants to be an outright cunt everytime someone criticizing his country's politics makes his feefees hurt then nothing's stopping him I suppose.

GOP benefits from this so nothing will be done about it. (tho I still think all the states that'll just have one rep that is always GOP will be outweighed by the big liberal states)