65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
    33·
    1 year ago

    We should never completely silence the voice of a group of people for all time, even if right now they’re pushing some heinous shit.

    Part of the reason for the phenomenon of Trump was the failure of politicians to care about the legitimate problems that rural voters have.

    In any case, if the House and Electoral College functioned like they should, the majority would win a lot more often. Don’t focus on the Senate, focus on the two institutions that weren’t designed to give rural people an outsized choice but have been manipulated to do so.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      completely silence the voice of a group of people for all time

      I don’t think anything proposed here by anyone would do that? What is being proposed is to stop prioritizing the votes of people occupying vast tracts of land over the majority. To have a vote cast by someone in the hinterlands equal someone’s vote in more populous parts of the country is putting them on par with everyone else. I’m not so sure what is so magical about someone living in a remote area that their interests should not align with everyone else’s.