Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "US election: Can you explain the electoral college in 10 seconds? - BBC News" video.

Well... the EC is one of those funny things that seems like a huge injustice when it doesn't serve your team, but which acts as a unifier if such a thing is possible. It prevents general disenfranchisement of voters who live in the vast majority of places outside of a few densely populated cities.
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@bignerd0452 Believe it or not, there are Democrats who live in Oklahoma and West Virginia, and Republicans who live in California.
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@TheGodsrighthandman Exactly. If you remove the electoral college, this boogey-man word "disenfranchisement" that has been forced down our throats for months will literally happen to tens of millions of people who live in lower population states where their votes would become entirely irrelevant. That sounds like a sure fire way to divide the nation even further and throw gas on the fire of growing secession movements.
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I know what the electoral college is, but I don't know why anyone needs it, since the entire media, BBC included, proclaimed the president before election night was even over.
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It's designed for incurious NPC's who will do no more than look at the thumbnail and think "heh stupid Trump supporter".
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@alex_mcclay Yes, I totally remember the media gracefully accepting Trump as the president.
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@alex_mcclay And for the next four years they were basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbES3Rbs9Wk
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@alex_mcclay I'm almost certain you'll see nothing even close to the meltdowns of 2016. Personally I'll be sitting here with my popcorn watching Biden's absurd and likely short lived administration fall apart. He's already flipped off BLM, so we'll see how that works out for him. My prediction is the Dems will impeach him over Hunter's Ukraine dealings anyway. Remember that prediction and see if I'm wrong. Seems likely they have always had it in their minds to remove him somehow and install Kamala - and she'll be in for a potentially 11+ year term (notwithstanding running against Trump in 2024).
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@alexandertaylor7316 That's the point though. It happens to have worked out that Republicans benefit from the EC because they tend to populate lower density rural states, but it wasn't designed to benefit them specifically. It was designed exactly as I described before - America is a huge country where each state is virtually a Nation on it's own. Imagine we had a global one-world government with a popular vote.... where do you suppose we'd end up being ruled from? Would that be a desirable system? Now in 2020 I'm not sure we should turn around and change the system to one that just happens to benefit Democrats? Who's to say in another decade or two there might have been some migration within the USA and the whole situation flips? Do we change it back so it benefits the Dems again? Or do we stay true to it's unpartisan design...
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