Should California Threaten Secession To Abolish Electoral College?

[eniwetok]

210. one person one vote is a joke....

One person, one vote is a joke if all votes are weighed differently in terms of representation. And that's what our national government is... a series of vote weighting/dilution schemes designed to look like a fair compromise. That IS what we all learned in 4th grade, right?

And the rationale of how "states" are represented sound deceivingly fair... until we look at how citizens are represented... then it all falls apart. This unfairness was certainly a concern at the Constitutional Convention... but all those desirable principles that were compromised away... have vanished from our political discourse. It's been replaced by a Civic Religion that there nothing wrong with our system. We see people in this thread saying all we have to do is better game this system.

One might think that the Democrats... the party we'd expect to be pushing for democratic reforms... would do so. But not even a Bernie Sanders touches on this issue... even though much of what he most complains about... corporate power and wealth inequality is directly tied to having antidemocratic government.