I'm sure it's been said, but we wouldn't have this nonsense with a popular vote

[Auggie]

[Skittles]

1. it is ridiculous

the EC has long outlived its purpose

[kimbutgar]

2. Sadly we can never get a constitutional amendment change in this divided country.

The rich oligarchs have destroyed this country and poisoned so many people that we are stuck in this situation.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Although I'm relieved that we seem to have avoided the end of democracy for the moment...

...I can't help but get the feeling that, after 200+ years, forces have discovered the flaws in our original Constitution and figured out how to exploit them to make this nation unsustainable. I know it's a knee-jerk reaction of progressives to recoil in horror at the thought of drastically revising the Constitution, but I really see only three eventual alternatives: remaking our nation in more of a confederationalist form, splitting up altogether into a number of different nations, or accepting a situation that will result in "tyranny of the minority" rule as often as not.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Good luck with that. It'd be easier to repeal the 2nd amendment,

[regnaD kciN]

4. Not just "this nonsense"...

...we would have had President Al Gore and President Hillary Clinton...and might not have had 9/11, the Iraq War and its aftermath, the 2008 recession, or 230,000+ dead from COVID-19. Granted, maybe all such disasters couldn't have been prevented, but they would certainly have been handled better, with far less of a human price.

[Auggie]

6. Of course