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In reply to the discussion: The "extreme left" didn't give us Trump. The path to hell was paved by [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)We KNOW that the Right loathes democracy. They want elections to be like the market... those with money prevail. So if there are to be democratic reforms to an antidemocratic system they MUST come from the Dems. But the vast, vast majority of Dems live in cognitive dissonance... that they somehow are the defenders of democracy when they clearly support an antidemocratic system. They maintain this cognitive dissonance by never bothering to define what democratic principles are... and high on that list is civic equality in the vote when it comes to representation.
But the other half of this equation is the Constitution is also almost impossible to reform. With a state based amendment formula, states with 4% of the US population can block any reform. And this is why we have the NPV approach. But there are immense problems with this approach. Congress may reject this compact as it can under Art 1, and the first time a state's EC votes are against how its population voted... there will be hell to pay. NVP is clever... but it's a bandaid over the defects of an antidemocratic and virtually reformproof system... a system protected by a Civic Religion that we mere mortals dare not try to reform what the Framers gave us... (let's sweep under the rug that many of their compromises were cynical in the extreme)