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eniwetok

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12. demographics makes our system more antidemocratic...
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 02:39 AM
Feb 2017

In 1790 the differential between the largest and smallest population state was about 16:1... if memory serves. Today it's 70:1.

Because of state suffrage demographics are making the entire system increasingly antidemocratic. It's to the point that states with about 4% of the US population can block any amendment. So even if an amendment can get out of the Senate... where 18% of the US population gets 52% of the seats... there's virtually no chance we can introduce democratic reforms like abolishing the EC. The system itself sabotages any democratic instinct.

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