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		UncleMeat on Aug 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 15 states are trying to make the electoral college... > We are not a democracy, seriously no one wants a democracy of 300 million plus. I do. This sounds much better than a federation of states with weird layers of indirection based on borders drawn by historical accident or anachronistic geographic boundaries like rivers.

TbobbyZ on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

Say you are in the 49% in the democracy that is for a policy, but 51% are against it. Do you really want that 51% to tell you what to do?

UncleMeat on Aug 23, 2019 | [–]

That is preferable to having only the people in a handful of swing states pick the president (who, by executive orders, tells me what to do).

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