Zam-Zam
Senator
1. Not really. It just gives a homogeneous, politically backward rural mass a special advantage at the expense of the big urban centers that are the loci of almost all the diversity, allowing candidates to focus on winning over that one uniform sector while ignoring the many urban groups a candidate needs to please to win a popular election.
2. Another way to put it would be that it gives special interests leverage to usurp political power at the expense of the majority.
3. In other words, it prevents voters fed up with the same old, same old from voting for change by entrenching the bipartisan Establishment.
4. By privileging states at the expense of individuals, it helps cement in place a repressive, statist system of federalism that by turning states into independent centers of class warfare help prevent the oppressed from concentrating their resistance on the national government.
I predict the electoral college will outlive all of us - and by a good deal.
I'm fine with that. It's all good.