Bernie Sanders calls for the electoral college to be abolished

[Ghost OF Trotsky]

24. You are completely right

I just wish the people calling for it actually understood what they were calling for!

However, "realistic", in the sense of actually achievable, is a completely valid criteria, I'll argue, as long as the person calling for something like this acknowledges the extremity of what they are asking for.

The basic fact is that the EC is not going away without a genuine revolution. Anyone who doesn't acknowledge that situation is just wasting their time and ours. It is one thing to talk realistically about revolution, both the implementation and the implications, it is something else to parade one's ignorance as so many who seem to want this particular (and disgusting) vestige of slave owning colonial America done away with but do not realize what they are actually calling for.

For all the horror and hype, we still had an election, under the same rules, and within similar parameters to many others; and whilst having no love for Drumpf, I don't see this as the End Of Days as so many seem to; at this point focusing on what we *CAN* be doing- which is raising up progressive candidates and infrastructure and attacking at the state and local level is, in my opinion, more important than people calling for something that simply is not going to happen without many other and far more extensive changes.

Yours in labor.