Warren calls for eliminating the Electoral College
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My response to people who are concerned about rural voters being ignored is: what mechanisms should be in place to ensure that other minority groups are not ignored? Because last I checked, the US doesn't base an entire third of its entire political system around ascertaining the equal representation of, say, ethnic minority voters, nor LGBT voters, nor women voters. A woman's vote is not worth more than a man's, even though legislatures dominated by men frequently undermine women's rights.
If people want to argue about the need to preserve the integrity of the union, so be it: but it sure must be nice to have your vote mean more than another's just because the guys who founded your country 250 years ago decided keeping the rural voters happy was more important than things like, say, abolishing slavery.
There's also the fact that, even with the electoral college system, rural voters in Democratic safe states are still ignored. Maybe American should just have a Rural President and an Urban President who have boxing matches about all political disagreements.
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1108097128394444800
If the argument about rural voters in certain areas not being represented comes up then the same argument can be used against itself. The EC enshrines one type of tyranny so the argument that other methods are going to enshrine other types of tyranny is basically cancelled out. Other arguments must be made.
Mostly because poor people tend to be more likely to A: abuse opiods, B: live in rural and semi-rural areas, C: Have no or minimal access to any sort of therapy that might help prevent or remidiate drug addiction.
Okay, so should black people get more voting power than white people? Should gay people get more voting power than straight people? Should disabled people get more votes than able-bodied people? Should atheists, muslims, jews etc. get more votes than christians?
If the answer to any of these is no, then why should rural voters get special treatment? Why are they the only minority that gets extra voting power?
The EC doesn't do anything for people in rural areas. Someone in urban New Hampshire has more voting power than someone in rural Pennsylvania. The entire state of California doesn't one big city, there are literally millions of rural voters who's interests aren't representated at all on the national stage. Republicans don't even campaign there, despite it being being consistently red when it comes time to vote. How is it liberal to endow one persons voice with more power than someone elses? Why bother having a popular vote at all if we have a system that grants Presidency to the person who came 3 million votes less than the person they were running against?
New Mexico had more visits than California and Texas combined? That's bizarre, we have fuck-all for EC votes.
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