Should the electoral college be abolished?
No, the electoral college ensures representation of the whole country instead of just major cities
While the Electoral College was implemented with the noble goal of ensuring diverse viewpoints in government, it cannot be ignored that the preeminent viewpoint thus ensured was that of the slaveholder. Even ignoring this sordid history, today, it serves the opposite purpose: it homogenizes the represented viewpoints by ensuring an overrepresentation of rural, white Americans. Diversity is a matter of people, not geography, and there is clearly a greater spread of opinions and priorities in a five-million person city than in a 3/4 million person state.
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