It's time to kill the Electoral College
Why does every discussion about abolishing the EC contain worries about where candidates would campaign?
Shouldn't they campaign wherever they think they can find votes?
If not, why not?
Jesus, people, we have a system that prioritizes sagebrush and cows over actual humans.
What the fuck, anyway?
And do we need to waste so much stupid ink worrying about the allegedly scary aspects of majority rule in this particular matter?
Really?
The Electoral College is clearly not the institutional device to filter out demagogues, and does nothing but sabotage democracy by diminishing the significance of blue voters concentrated in populous states while magnifying the importance of red voters out in the boonies.
As for the demagogues, it's up to the parties to fix their methods of selecting their candidates.
But here's a thought.
A constitutional amendment to restrict eligibility for the presidency to persons who have served at least one full term as a governor or in the US Senate, or at least two terms in the US House, would keep out the ignorant amateurs and blowhards without either personal regard for our actual political system or first hand knowledge how to work within it.
Such a requirement would not have protected us from Governor George Wallace, but it would have protected us from Il Duce.
But it would have kept out Eisenhower, you say.
So, do you think we need to allow for that rarity, a five star general who has achieved victory in a major theater of a global war?
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