Votto
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It'll only change if you change the voting system
Right, Progs want a direct voting system and do away with the electoral college.
The Founding Fathers were wary of a democracy, hence they created a Republic and the electoral system.
Naturally, Progs oppose them at every turn. Progs would rather have the population heavy states of California and New York run the lives of everyone else in the country.
Actually it was a way to rig POTUS elections in favor of the slave states, which is why four of our first five Presidents were slaveholders from the South, specifically Virginia, the largest EC state. You know, the kind y'all revisionists like to pretend "run the lives of everyone else in the country". That was no coincidence They were able to do that by counting their slaves as 3/5 of a person each for the purpose of apportionment while allowing them 0/5 of a vote. Consequently nothing got done to address slavery for generations, at the same time Britain and France and Spain were abandoning it.
Once states started snowballing that WTA bullshit, the EC's main architect James Madison called for a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting that practice. Even though he too was from Virginia.
Whether they be right or wrong, states deserve adequate representation.