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[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but because of its citizens.

You mean the same people that have elected Trump twice now?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The people said no the first time. It was a bullshit law from 1929 that broke our electoral system and placed him in office

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The electoral college dates to far before 1929.

Regardless, pretending Trump doesn't represent the American public is cope at best.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I know. It was the permanent arbitrary capping of the number of house seats/electors that caused the system to get completely fucked up. We should have 3x the number by now as population has tripled since then. This is what has caused the major imbalance in voice power voter in small states vs large, which keeps getting worse.

He represents a minority, not the whole. That's the issue. He's approaching Nixon post resignation levels of disapproval. Pretending that the majority of Americans are represented by that is idiotic