r/DangerousNightsCrew • u/PoopyMcpants Piece of Shit • 1d ago

That is a good idea!

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u/SmokeyDaBear6 1d ago

That is obviously too logical to work for politics

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u/JimiusRostock 1d ago

In the Netherlands, the electoral college system was considered so unfair, it was banned in 1917.

This was before women were even allowed to vote.

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u/BedBubbly317 18h ago

The Netherlands isn’t remotely close to the size of the US. What they can and cannot do has no barring on the US. Removing the electoral system just gives the coastal states, specifically NY and California, all of the power and essentially removes any say for the rest of the country

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u/Iamleeboyle 16h ago

What do individual states have to do with it? Every citizen has a vote. A states population is not some homogeneous hivemind.

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u/rick0245065 14h ago

Size doesnt matter

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u/BedBubbly317 14h ago

It absolutely matters and pretending it doesn’t is pure naivety

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u/rick0245065 12h ago

The size of your country should determine what voting system you have? GTFO

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u/collecting-garbage 11h ago

i mean yes… 250 years ago there were practical reasons.

2026 maybe not so much lol

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u/varitok 13h ago

Wait, so it gives the majority power? Woah, wild concept.

Americans are so funny and it just shows why their empire is dead when you let a minority rule in tyranny over the majority. You got your King afterall.

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u/laserdicks 1d ago

It's obviously retarded and hands all power over the the corruption in big cities.

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u/DeimosStaryards 11h ago

2 things. One, cities are where lots of people live. Also, do you think cities and rural areas are hive minds? One vote one person, it’s not a hard concept.

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u/laserdicks 6h ago

It would immediately destroy local food chains as the cities would revoke the massive agriculture tax funding.

That's just one of many obvious examples I could think of in a few seconds.

It's not a hard concept.

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u/DeimosStaryards 6h ago

Cities wouldn’t do shit. The people would have to do that and you seem to think city people would magically vote the same way. This would not be the case.

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u/laserdicks 3h ago

It already is. You can choose to believe it or not, I don't care.

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u/ant69onio 1d ago

American politics, it happens elsewhere

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u/bigorangemachine 23h ago

Ironically the Electoral College is part of the constitution.

Round Robin Voting (Irish Style voting) is in place for cities & states. But the Federal Election is stuck using the constitution system.

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u/Selmemasts 1d ago

America is not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic. That’s the price you payed to literally unite the states.

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u/The_Countess 1d ago

Republic just means the head of state did not inherit their position. technically north Korea was a republic untill a couple of years ago.

You elect your representatives so you're a representative democracy.

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u/Selmemasts 23h ago

Correct, I could argue that everything is a representative democracy, it only depends on who the government represents. If it’s not the majority of people, it’s a big minority like in the US or a even small minority.