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So I'm a New Zealander and I have a pretty good idea on how the electoral college system works but it honestly sounds like something that can be easily corrupted and it feels like it renders the popular vote absolutely useless unless I'm totally missing something obvious?

So yeah if someone could explain to me what the benefits of such a system are, that would be awesome.

Edit - Thanks for the replies so far, already learning a lot!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In many ways, yes. There were also abolitionists and abolition sympathizers among the framers. It was a complicated set of individuals and the resulting constitution was complicated as well. It’s a document that simultaneously enshrines liberty and white supremacy. There’s a real Jekyll and Hyde nature to American democracy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberty for property owners, white supremacy also for property owners. It was a bourgeois revolution.

Even the abolitionists were the "after I'm dead" and "back to Africa" kind of abolitionists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You’ve got little argument from me there.