2020 Election

[Dill]

(08-18-2020, 11:49 AM)hollodero Wrote: The tyranny of the majority sounds odd for an election in a democracy... but actually I get what you say. What I do not get is why the EC is connected with states' rights. Imho these two issues inherently don't have to do anything with each other. The one is about picking the president, the other is about what he can do. Separate.

Tyranny of the majority problem, though not connected to the rationale for the EC as a check on the popular vote, was a primary concern in the US from the beginning. One check against concentrated power is the notion that we have two systems of government, our state governments and our federal government.

The core of current "illiberal democracies" seems to be that they are tyrannies of the majority.