Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence

[eniwetok]

98. nothing happens from inaction and cowardice...

Sure, I've never suggested that getting CA to agree would be easy... only that I can find no alternative to push for democratic reforms in an antidemocratic system which is for all intents and purposes reformproof. We can't expect the GOP which has contempt for democracy to ever push for reforms. What's scandalous is that even liberal Dems are AWOL on democracy even if they wear it on their sleeves. Most live in a perpetual state of cognitive dissonance protected by their refusal to even define what democratic principles are. You parade this intellectual dishonesty as a legitimate rebuttal to calls for democratic reform. I see it as intellectual cowardice to confront the Civic Religion. And yet if Dems had pushed for democratic reforms back in the 30s, maybe today we might ever have had the Bush and Trump Juntas. Maybe if they had reformed the ridiclous amendment formula the EC could have been abolished by now. It's clear you refuse to question the system and want to repeat those errors rather than find some way to shock the system into considering reform. I see too much at stake nationally and globally to defer to a defective system as you do. The US is out of the control of its own population and sociopathic corporations, rabid right wingers and illegitimate presidents are filling the void.