Without the Constitution and the Electoral College, America would be … part of Canada
That would be just awful, much worse than what we have now /s
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I 'm not sure that we should look to the Chinese National People’s Congress (the world’s largest legislative body) as a model.
I suspect that the Biden administration will see such attempts at substantive reform fail in the Senate.
On top of exploiting such structural injustices, it appears that Republicans aren’t above stealing the mail.
If you can’t control an error rate of 6.7 percent, how can you possibly use the elections to discern margins of victories in closely contested elections?
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Yeah, that’s the real problem. We thought that evidence and the lived experience of what a shit job Trump has done would influence former supporters. We thought that there would be folks who felt, I liked a lot of what he said he’d do but he’s failed to deliver. Instead we get supporters saying (again and again), “He’s kept all his promises, things have never been better!” and you wonder, what drugs are they on?
It seems pretty clear that their version of reality is pretty evidence-free. When you have a huge proportion of the American people who are no longer swayed by evidence, what can you do? It is profoundly dispiriting.
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When they can say with a straight face (well, usually a screaming snarl) that Covid does not really exist, that the dems are running a secret child labor camp on Mars, the economy is The Best Its Ever Been(r) and such without stroking out from the cognitive dissonance, I think we can safely say we have entered a fact vacuum.
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A factuum, if you will.
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I guess a distinguishing feature that apartheid has as opposed to segregation is that in South Africa the “dominant” group was an actual minority of the population and untenable in the long term. That is what the racist republicans seem to be asking for given demographic trends in the United States. If they achieved some form of segregation in the short term, they would be getting apartheid in the medium term.
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As I said,
Yes, having the House have 10,430 members would be… unwieldy. But for the Electoral College it would just add time to a show that no one watches anyway. Not like conventions aren’t held in arenas anyway; there are plenty of places where it could happen.
I would think having a much smaller House of Representatives is a better idea, although expanding it to include the Territories and DC is a good thing, IMHO. (Although, I would expect such action to be with the consent of the citizens of the territory. If they do not consent and do not choose their reps, it’s just more colonial eyewash.)
Although… my state is notoriously gerrymandered, and my district is one of the poster children for bad gerrymandering. A pro 2A, pro choice, former radio newscaster, small business person, who was all about helping people just lost out to a used car salesman who’s brother was convicted of fraud in the family business. All because she had a -D behind her name. I feel like “my” representative is a horrible person who doesn’t give two fucks about what I have to say, and has blocked me on Facebook. (Probably because I’ve pointed out the above things.)
I kind of feel that if we had several hundred representatives, someone who lived in my community and was more accountable to the community would probably represent me. I mean, my suburb would have 3 different representatives; my city would have 50. With 30K constituents, they would probably be someone who, in the off season, I’d run into at the Krogers and meet at community events and they might even know my name.
Logistically, it would be a nightmare. Probably not worth it. But it would have advantages.
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That would be horrible! I mean, that could lead to such insanity as professional hockey teams in Florida!
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I read that as a compromise that was a “mistake” in hindsight. The whole Presidential election process changed almost immediately. So it’s not like it was even a solid plan back then.
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If their workers are all illegal, then the owners/farmers can treat them like shit, violate endless numbers of labor and safety laws, and the workers don’t dare complain out of fear of arrest and being put into concentration camps, or deported. It’s a win-win for the owners.
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Except that the current popular vote is 50.5 to 47.7. So while that’s not “running away with the election” it’s not a tight race by any stretch of the imagination.
Except, of course, in America.
and French still being the official language in Louisiana? 
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All true. Just adding - They mostly (around here) come in legally* on temporary work visas, but they still have very few worker/worksite protections. If they get lucky, it’s an okay gig, if not, what are they going to do about it?
*Although, the current administration greatly reduced the availability of those temp. work visas, so who knows if that’s still the case…?
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