ELECTORAL COLLEGE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR SLAVE OWNERS?

[eniwetok]

17. our system destroys any democratic instinct...

Not even a Bernie Sanders criticizes the antidemocratic nature of the Senate. I don't know if he's said anything about the EC. Which is odd since much of what Sander's rails about, money in politics, growing corporate political power etc, can be traced back to our system being antidemocratic. Why can other nations have rational health care systems and we can't?

And in that example is why we can't reform. Small states don't deserve the power they have and will resist giving up the gravy train. It probably won't even matter to the progressive in that state... because like the Democratic Party... in the US we gloss over the defects in the system... or they think it will work in their favor next time. That's what many Dems here hoped for back in 04.

So we're stuck with a system that can't provide morally legitimate government, a system that gets more antidemocratic, and a system that can't really be reformed. We are a frozen republic.