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Did Madison heed his own warning when he agreed to the electoral college or denial of the franchise to women, the poor, and the 3/5ths people in Federalist ?

Our inequality is rooted in the Constitution whose authors we inexplicably revere unquestioningly for their wisdom. They did what was right for them. It helped replace a monarchy with a constitutional aristocracy.

The nation is running as designed.

Unfortunately.

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76aa9f93... 2y ago

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Do you live in a large city or a state with large population? Different perspective if you live in a small town or a state with a smaller population. Even after money is targeted to remediate the money/advantage gap it frequently gets diverted away from them to big cities/states with larger populations where big donors and a large voting pool exist. Electoral college was meant to be a political correction for lack of power.

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76aa9f93... 2y ago

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Adding. Real life example. Small town asked the state for and was granted money to build the first and only swimming pool for their school. Money was shifted away at the last minute to build another very large pool for kids in the big city to specifically canoe in or something other than swimming.

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Staid Winnow 2y ago

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Regardless of which city I live in, or my perspective, I am drawing attention to the fact that the electoral college inflicts a disproportionate voter representation. Which is being attempted in other ways in red states.

But, I'll answer your question: I live in California in a city that has ~100k people.

"Electoral college was meant to be a political correction for lack of power."

A pity then, that it has not done that.