well, thats actualy due to the citizens voting on president

i think perhaps a seperation between local representation and who takes federal power might be needed.

IIRC you get to vote on president, but the elctoral college makes the real vote?

the way it used to work is that the state govenor appointed electors confirmed by the state senate to vote for the president

but then the states changed it so that the electors are all of the party that recieved the most votes

because my local conservative or liberal might be the best option, but i sure as hell don't want either of them in power federally.

in effect, it forced you to pay attention to your state government

we really never pay attention to state governments anymore, which is bad because something like 95% of legislation in the us is state level

in any given state.

@Shai'tan complicated... isn't it.

@ShardS that change sounds like it was pretty damaging.

Sounds... unconstitutional

but it was for democracy so it's good

nah, the constitution says that electors can be assigned as the state wishes

ahh, damn, nothing to fallback on then.

the reason its not popular vote, is that the president unlike senators or representatives is supposed to represent every state

and every region in those states

makes sense

one thing would be better civics classes. i mean hell i passed mine and i swear to you i was absent more times than i was there. i pracitally treated that class as a spare

even back then, they were worried about a few small geographicaly urban regions dominating the political sphere because they had high population density

I don't think I took a civics class.

"Social Studies" was about as close as I came.. and we only talked about canadian politics for 6 months of my last year of high school.

as it is right now, 60% of the us population is in cities, 85% is in suburbs towns or cites

we are one of the LEAST urban western countries and we are still urbanized to heck

Proper Civics education is step one in making a better political system you have to know how it works to find out what's wrong with it.

if I recall, in strict popular vote, the 14 largest us cities have more votes than the rest of the country

but educating people to think critically is coutner productive to the globalist and leftist agendas.

it requires something like the 20 largest states to win however.

so it is a middle ground between 1 vote per state and 1 vote per person

Sounds similar to our problem with Ontario and the rest of Canada.

And i care about them why? Oh right the little red sniper dot on my glasses just reminded my why. BTW Clintons did nothing wrong and Epstein committed suicide.

Ontario. 95/282 seats for Ontario 75/282 seats for Quebec.

60% of representatives come from 2 of 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Yes there is a problem with ontario, and quebec being a little too powerful in a system that only has 10 provinces and 3 territories.

its like if there were only 13 states ane two of them were newyork and california

yeah, in comparison for the usa california: 53/435 Texas: 36/435

that's a good comparison!

so combined its 170/282 vs 89/435

we gotta find a way to fix that, also toronto and quebec city are where almost all that pull is centralized.

Toronto has something like 8% of Canadas population living in it.

well, in our case, the rules are Proportional up to a total of 435, minimum 1 per state