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Written by Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲 on 2024-09-16 at 02:41

The US needs a National referendum on keeping or abolishing the Electoral College.

That's the only way we get close to One person, one vote.

It's the most direct form of democracy. No endless polls; just vote.

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Written by Extinction Studies on 2024-09-16 at 02:43

@CatHerder

There's no mechanism to do that except a Constitutional Amendment.

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Written by Cat Herder 💔 🗽 🇺🇲 on 2024-09-16 at 02:49

@aka_quant_noir

Most of the division in this country is left over ridiculousness from the post civil war period.

Tech has made it entirely conceivable to take the wishes of the majority of us and act on them.

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Written by Niels Nielsen, geographer on 2024-09-16 at 06:40

@CatHerder @aka_quant_noir But the Constitution seems almost sacred, like the only thing that most Americans agree to respect. Without that, wouldn't the country fall apart?

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Written by Extinction Studies on 2024-09-16 at 11:56

@nichni @CatHerder

To change the constitution is conceivable. It's just politically difficult and potentially hazardous with ALEC and the rest of the right wing oligarchs trying to push the other way at, say, a constitutional convention.

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Written by Niels Nielsen, geographer on 2024-09-16 at 12:38

@aka_quant_noir @CatHerder ALEC, is that an oligarch that we should know about?

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Written by Extinction Studies on 2024-09-16 at 12:41

@nichni @CatHerder it's a right wing group known for drafting right wing legislation they adapt and provide to their chamber of commerce allies in our state houses.

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