Reply #7: Dumping the EC is key to any reform [View All]

[Warpy]

and then we can work on public campaign financing. What has kept both big parties in control and shutting out all third parties is the insane winner take all electoral college. Third parties never manage to gain electoral votes, so people don't bother with them unless they are utterly disgusted with the candidates offered by the big two. Nobody even bothers to count the national totals, although state totals are reported.

Our whole system is a total mess and what it's taken for us to realize it is the theft of the system by a small and intensely cabal of rich men with Stupid as their front.

I just hope we can get it back peacefully. I'm too damn old for a violent revolution.