Other than yourself of course.
As far as the long term is concerned, this is the system that elected FDR three times, Lincoln, Kennedy, you name it. It has proven that it does work over the long term. In the short term we have had problems like W. or Hoover but in the long term it works.
It is Democratic. We live in a representative democracy. The citizens don't do anything to directly effect any decision made by the federal government (voting to ratify constitutional amendments being the one exception). All we do is elect representatives who then vote on our behalf. The electoral college is part of this representative democratic system.
I will agree that the 60 vote rule in the Senate is a problem but that has nothing to do with the electoral college. It also does not require a constitutional amendment to change that Senate rule. Senators should not be in this discussion at all. They have nothing to do with the electoral college.
Now as for this last sentence: "What's the point of having democratic rule if people's rights can be held back by a small minority of the people?"
When the electoral college elects a President even though he/she loses the popular vote it is done in a very close election. Never will there be a small minority which carries the vote over a large majority under the electoral system. A minority that is just slightly smaller than the majority will sometimes win the electoral college, but never a small minority. Never.
At this point I would like to review our little back and forth here.
First I explained why it is impossible to get rid of the electoral college. You responded by comparing it to slavery and implied that the nation would somehow be so damaged by it that the nation might fall apart.
When I pointed out how that comparison doesn't make sense you tried to revise it to "civil strife"
I then pointed out that the strife caused by this system is minuscule, you have now switched to claiming that it is somehow undemocratic and then brought in the Senate to try and make a point and/or change the subject.
Can you see where this is going?
It is impossible to change the system. It is not a cause for war or even great civil unrest. It is democratic. There is even a strict constructionist argument to be made, although I see no reason to go into it. My first point is the important one. IT IS POLITICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO ELIMINATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE! You may as well try to sprout wings and fly to the moon because that isn't ever going to happen either.
You should try to focus on working within the system because it is the only one this country will have for the foreseeable future and beyond.
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