10-24-2011, 08:49 PM
billb wrote:
It's a good compromise system that has served us well since its inception.
Throwing the election to GW Bush (with a little help from a corrupt supreme court) despite the popular vote being clearly against him and thus causing us to dive deeply into deficit spending, unjustified wars, and thousands of deaths is not what I would call "served us well".
"We've always done it this way so we should keep doing it" is a refrain I often hear, and it is seldom valid, so arguments that use that line of reasoning are bogus IMHO.
$tevie wrote: The argument is that we are not a democracy, but a Constitutional Republic, which the Founding Fathers created on purpose in an effort to have small low population areas have at least some of the clout of large highly populated areas.
Actually it's large low population areas and small highly populated areas. However, that's beside the point. Why should a single person who lives in a low population density state have much more political power than a single person who lives (potentially just a couple of miles away) in a high population density state?