Americans mostly back dumping the electoral college, i don't

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54. Well the E. C. is hardly tyranny is it???? That seems like rather extreme hyperbole.

What we have is a system that empowers ALL people, in EVERY STATE to participate in the processes of government. All the processes.

NOTHING about our system puts Rhode Island in a circumstance with tyrannical powers over California, Texas, Florida or New York.

The solutions the writers of the Constitution, and those who endorsed it as the guidance for the nation solved many of the problems that would emerge with the destruction of the E.C. and then the erosion of powers of lesser states in the face of overwhelming power of the 10 states that hold 70% of the population.

Direct popular vote would cede to people who who live in America's 10 greatest megolopoli, and care about little other than their megalopis' power all functional political power.

That would certainly seriously burden if not destroy economies in the US that are not urban