The electoral college is good as it keeps big cities from telling the rest of the country what to do, no arguments with that. But it is kinda strange that the candidate that most people voted for doesn't get to be president.

Interestingly, the founders thought that most people wouldn't know enough to pick a good president, and that may have been the case back when there wasnt a good way to learn about the candidates with the internet and such. They figured that usually no one would win the electoral college, and figured Congress would usually elect the president. If nobody wins the electoral college, the house picks the president from the top three candidates, with each state getting one vote, and tbe Senate picks the vice President from the top two candidates. Being stuck with a dysfunctional two party system pretty much ensures that someone will always win the electoral college though.

No doubt in my mind on the whole that women are voting us in a liberal direction. Not all of them, but as a whole women vote liberal....

I have been thinking that, at least here in Minnesota, we should go to an electoral vote for governor. It would keep three or four counties from carrying the governor's race, like happens now.

We should go back to only landowners being allowed to vote, the way our government was created and meant to run. Unless you're vested in the country, you're likely to vote selfishly, like nonvested city dwellers usually do for programs like welfare, SNAP and the myriad of other programs that steal from those who work and bestow on those who won't work.

Keith

You also had to be available for the bucket brigades and no women voting.
There were responsibilities that came with voting that there aren't now.

You also had to be available for the bucket brigades and no women voting.
There were responsibilities that came with voting that there aren't now.

I agree with everything said. What's the plan to change it? I doubt there is a peaceful solution. You remember the conversations on here about the Patriot Act. Lots of people said they had nothing to hide. Words need to turn into actions.

So I guess people don't like the system of Majority Rules?

The United States has always been a Republic, not a democracy. Pure democracies can never work on a large level.

Keith

So I guess people don't like the system of Majority Rules?

There is hardly a distinction between the two. Even in the U.S the majority can choose to legally take away the constitutional rights of the minority simply through voting.

I would personally prefer a constitutional Monarchy, I defiantly do not like "majority rules"