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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A TL;DR of the memo: We’ll pressure all pro-Trump electors to meet and cast their votes together for Trump, as opposed to following their state’s popular vote, which is somehow only illegal in some states.

Can we just remind ourselves of how stupid the existence of an Electoral College is?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The electoral college and the senate (as it functions now) exists to give slave states more power so that they'd agree to ratify the constitution with the expectation that they can use it to protect the institution of slavery. It is a carry over protection of slavery that we somehow didn't fix after we fought a war over the bullshit they were doing. It never should have existed, but it definitely shouldn't now.