Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Is This The End of the Electoral College?" video.

  1. It would "end our democracy" to have elections actually be democratic instead of having elections where the loser of the popular vote can still win? Also, there are no 3 or 4 states that contain a majority of the US population. Defenders of the electoral college system are apparently incapable of doing math.
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  2.  @tedbishop  And you think 33% is enough to "totally control every election"? You're making my case for me.
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  3.  @tedbishop  In no way would that be unfair. And states would not "control" anything at all under a popular vote system. Every American controls their own vote. All 50 states would get the exact same say in the outcome of the election: none whatsoever. The idea of being a nation of states rather than of individuals is idiotic and should be ended as soon as possible.
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  4.  @mayainverse9429  California is only 11% of the US population. Why are proponents of the status quo regarding the Senate and the Electoral College completely incapable of doing basic math?
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  5. California and New York are 19% of the population, you twit. How does 19% decide in a popular vote? Did every electoral college proponent flunk out of their high school math classes?
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  6.  @marcusj1167  Thanks for confirming one again that people who support the electoral college are morons. California and New York are less than 20% of the population, you blithering idiot. Also, claiming they're the worst-run states is insane.
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  7.  @jaredhouston4223  Yes, you blithering idiot, that is how it works. Because in the absence of the electoral college, Republicans would have to find a way to get an actual majority of voters on their side, instead of being able to "win" with 46% of the vote like they can now.
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  8. So you admit that the electoral college is the protector of white supremacy?
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  9.  Truthus Maximus  No, it doesn't. What the electoral college has done instead is create tyranny of the minority.
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  10. That's why conservatives keep making incoherent arguments against the popular vote and in favor of the electoral college.
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  11.  @jaredhouston4223  You don't even know what "direct democracy" is, you deranged idiot. Direct democracy means laws passed via referendum. Abolishing the electoral college in favor of popular election of the President would still be representative democracy.
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  12.  @dewknow1315  New York and California combined are less than 20% of the vote, you blithering idiot.
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  13.  @ALWAYSELITE98  That political minority (the smaller, more rural states) should have less of a voice than they currently have. Right now their voice is disproportionately large. Right now, the electoral college has given us tyranny of the minority.
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  14.  @ALWAYSELITE98  That's irrelevant. It's still a disproportionately small number of electoral votes compared to their population.
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  15.  @ALWAYSELITE98  I'm well aware that the disproportionate representation of small states is "by design". My point is that it's a bad design. And tyranny of the minority is an even worse outcome than tyranny of the majority. No, I don't want to make any states more powerful. I want to make all 50 states less powerful, by making "states" become completely irrelevant to presidential elections.
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  16. Why should we have respect for evil people?
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  17. Eric, you blithering idiot, they'd still get to vote. It's just that their vote wouldn't be counted extra like it is now. Every vote would count the same.
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  18.  @ericrivera410  No. States would cease to matter entirely.
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  19.  @ericrivera410  States would be completely irrelevant to presidential elections in the absence of the electoral college. The winner would simply be the candidate with the most votes. What state those votes came from would be meaningless.
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  20.  @BillieSharkTooth  If by "serfs" you mean that you'll no longer have disproportionate power and will have to settle for mere equality with the rest of America.
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  21.  @BillieSharkTooth  The system in this case can't be fixed. It's broken on a conceptual level. The electoral college is an innately terrible idea that cannot be fixed, it can only be abolished.
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  22.  @BillieSharkTooth  To hell with that. You don't deserve to be given more of a vote than people who live in larger states. You deserve the exact same vote as every other American, and no more than that.
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  23. Personally, I say we'd be much better off as a nation if the small states were stripped of their power entirely. And I live in a relatively small state.
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  24.  @justinmathis1850  You'd need at least 11 states to get 50% of the population.
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  25.  @jaredhouston4223  No, you gibbering idiot, it is not. There's nothing about living in a republic that means some people's votes should count for more than others.
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  26.  @jaredhouston4223  Yes, Boomers are indeed the worst generation. As proven by how they vote mostly for Republicans.
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  27.  @jaredhouston4223  No, you deranged idiot, North Korea and China did not vote in their current governments.
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  28. The smaller states should be boxed out. The vast majority of the American population live in a large city or the suburbs of a large city. As such, the big population centers should dominate the government.
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  29.  @regrettheprophet  It's not "disenfranchising" them to say that their votes will be treated the same as everybody else's. That's equality.
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  30.  @Skulldetta  Republicans are idiots. Yes, all Republicans.
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  31.  @marcusj1167  They're not getting bailed out, you gibbering idiot. And if everybody is leaving California and New York, how are their populations getting bigger?
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  32. As an insider, it still sounds like the most ridiculous thing ever. Because it is.
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  33.  @jaredhouston4223  Conservatism is a mental illness. You are a perfect case study of this fact.
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  34.  @heatran1919  The playing field shouldn't be evened out between small and large states. Giving small states extra representation just means that not all votes are equal. States shouldn't matter at all in federal elections. Only people should matter.
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  35. No compromise. The electoral college is a cancer on American democracy that must be removed entirely.
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  36.  @nicholastrudeau7581  Because no matter what you try to do to "reform" the electoral college, the fundamental problem remains that it gives some votes more weight than others, instead of treating every vote as equally important.
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  37.  @nicholastrudeau7581  Okay.
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  38. One point per county would be the exact opposite of "popular vote". Or did it completely escape your notice that counties differ greatly in population? The notion that Kalawao County, Hawaii (population 88) should count the same as Los Angeles County, California (population 10,163,507) is the dumbest idea anyone has ever proposed. It would also allow for states to rig the presidential election by artificially creating hundreds of new counties right before the election, because counties are just arbitrary lines on a map.
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  39.  @dewknow1315  That doesn't change the fact that your moronic idea would give the same vote to 88 people in one county as to 10 million in another county. I'm glad that your vote will never count. Unfortunately, millions of people just as stupid as you do have their votes decide elections.
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  40.  @jaredhouston4223  No, it's your own stupidity that makes you unable to see that those reasons for the EC are actually bad things.
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  41.  @iironhide6209  As it stands, the small states are overrepresented. And the large states correctly feel that they're currently underrepresented and trampled on by the small states.
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  42. There is literally no such thing as an intelligent Republican. Because being a Republican is an innately stupid act.
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  43. There is literally less than zero chance of Trump winning the popular vote.
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  44.  @delasee1383  And the "Great Compromise" was in fact a great mistake. It would've been better to have Congress determined solely on the basis of population. If the smaller states wouldn't have agreed to that, then the US should've just been formed without them. The smaller states could be left to try and survive on their own. And they wouldn't have been able to survive on their own, so they would've eventually come crawling back.
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  45. That just proves how meaningless "counties" are. The smallest county in America has just 88 people living in it. The largest county has over 10 million, which is more than 41 out of the 50 states. The idea that counties should matter is insane.
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  46. Yes, in fact the electoral college does innately favor Republicans. But more to the point, the reason Democrats largely oppose the electoral college is that Democrats support actual free and fair elections. Republicans largely support the electoral college because they oppose free and fair elections.
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  47. The founding fathers were wrong about this. They failed to account for the threat of the tyranny of the minority over the majority, and that's what we have now thanks in part to the electoral college.
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  48.  @delasee1383  And it's a fundamentally terrible system on every level. States should not have representation. That's an innately moronic concept, because a state is the people living in it. The people themselves should be the only ones represented, not the state.
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  49.  @delasee1383  State borders are mostly arbitrary. Are we seriously to pretend that California is one homogeneous culture, but North and South Dakota are completely different? Also, I'm a Tennessean. My state would have significantly less power in the absence of the Senate. I consider that a good thing. I feel that states in general have too much power.
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  50.  @kurtvonfricken6829  Perhaps in some respects it does. But my position is that the states have been given too much importance.
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  51.  @jaredhouston4223  You are the one who proves himself to be an idiot with every post.
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