When you mention popular voting system, and eliminating the Electoral College, you are met with statements such as ‘majority rule is unfair’.
Every vote actually counting, is as fair as it gets. The majority is formed, widened, and enhanced by a leader and how effective, inspiring, and trustworthy that leader may be. How good they are able to sell what they are trying to accomplish for the people is key. The majority is not formed or defined by the city or state that the people/voters are in.
Ronald Reagan did it in 1980 and 1984. He did it with dog whistles, racism, saying that he would change the economy for the better, war on drugs, downplaying the aids epidemic, dehumanizing the LGBTQ community, promising law and order, cutting government programs, and enriching corporations.
I’m not saying that I agree with his policies or ideas, because I don’t. I’m not saying that I think what he did ended up being good for America, because I don’t. The point is, he did it. The point is that, he won on these issues, and at the time, those are what the ‘majority’ of Americans largely agreed on. He made it believable, captured the imagination of American citizens, and that earned him the popular vote in two landslide election victories.
Of course things change, society evolves, as it should. Leaders should change and evolve with society, with little resistance against it. If leaders are able to change and evolve with society, they can better understand the current needs of the people. As that happens, majorities are able to shift over time.
Now if you’re a modern day Republican leader, and you refuse to change, adapt, accept, or even try to understand what the needs and wants are of the current majority, of course you would be against having a popular voting system in place, but you’re also choosing to stay in the minority.
It will make Republicans and Democrats alike, ‘step their game up’, if you will, and stop playing tit-for-tat politics against each other, and start actively and collectively working for the people. The prize to be won is the people’s vote, not lobbyists and corporations.
If you’re only going to appeal, speak, and play to the minority, why should you have the opportunity to rule over the majority?
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