The 2026 blue wave could end up washing away the Electoral College. In addition to winning Congress, Democrats won full control of state governments in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That means that a two-decades-in-the-making plan to switch our presidential elections to a popular vote system — a plan 18 states have already approved— […]

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That should have happened after the civil war, but they chickened out leading to jim crow and all the fuckery of the civil rights era. The US ceased to be a republic as envisioned by the founders after the civil war and it's now a half bastardized mishmash of a strong centralized democratic government cosplaying as a republic. It's basically the worst aspects of all of them, and none of it is really working correctly anymore.

The modern information age brings challenges and capabilities the founding fathers never even dreamed of and it's probably about time we stopped worshipping the set of compromises they reached centuries ago and actually thought for ourselves.

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