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16. What a messy, messy way to run a superpower.

Sun May 6, 2018, 12:14 AM

May 2018

But look at what you could say are the other two superpowers - Russia and China. I'm not exactly enamoured of the way their governments work, either.

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"That's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant." [View all] Miles Archer May 2018 OP

There is no way to enforce it, the regime would fall quickly apart. tritsofme May 2018 #1

Sure bad things might happen. Voltaire2 May 2018 #4

Which won't happen. Voltaire2 May 2018 #8

Doubtful. tritsofme May 2018 #9

Less doubtful by far than an amendment. Voltaire2 May 2018 #21

Its a nice idea... SkyDaddy7 May 2018 #18

If we take back enough state legislatures and governorships Tiggeroshii May 2018 #29

No but the right would be screaming their fool bloody heads off Volaris May 2018 #17

"the right would be screaming their fool bloody heads off" elocs May 2018 #23

Sadly, all the states who have signed on to this are Blue States oberliner May 2018 #6

The blue state have the largest populations, BigmanPigman May 2018 #11

Which gets us into proportional representation ProudLib72 May 2018 #12

Did you read this article posted on DU this week about BigmanPigman May 2018 #13

Oh, that's a good article! ProudLib72 May 2018 #14

Dividing California would probably make more rural states. Lucky Luciano May 2018 #15

The money guys are already working on it. nolabels May 2018 #20

Yes, but doesn't it hurt us if only the blue states agree to this? oberliner May 2018 #19

More to the point, it can't help us. We would be in a situation where... stevenleser May 2018 #24

That is my concern also oberliner May 2018 #25

What a messy, messy way to run a superpower. BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #16

If every state agreed all elections would be unanimous MichMan May 2018 #26

The vote of every American citizen should count equally, Gothmog May 2018 #30

This could go sour quick madville May 2018 #33