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US Politics 12h
Universal healthcare and abolishing the electoral college. Two things that are incredibly necessary but republicans stay parroting bullshit talking points about
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Anonymous 11h

The problem with universal healthcare is the majority of Americans only support it until they learn that it would take a pretty big tax increase on the middle class

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Anonymous 12h

You’d be amiss to not acknowledge that the primary motivation for abolishing the electoral college by the left is electoral performance.

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Anonymous 6h

Getting rid of the electoral college and first past the post is definitely long overdue. Universal healthcare is stupid

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12h

Or it’s to give every person fair representation 🤯

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

Fair is a subjective term. The idea of the electoral college was to create a “fair” system that balanced rural and urban interests which are largely divergent.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12h

Essentially it placated the southern colonies that pre-industrialization were the greatest contributors to the new nation’s economic prosperity.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12h

1 person 1 vote versus 1 person 1.35 votes or 1 person .87 vote.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12h

And now rural communities get more say than urban communities even though urban areas fund rural areas. It also disenfranchises millions of people because contrary to popular belief, STATES DONT VOTE AS MONOLITHS.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 12h

By that logic then we should be giving disproportionate electoral power to states like California, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, etc. since they tend to be the states that contribute most per capita to the economy. But that won’t happen for obvious reasons.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 3h

Yea but you forget about heckin empathy

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