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The electoral college was created so the slaver states could get political representation for the slaves without giving them the vote. Everything else is after the fact rationalisation.
Slavery played a big part in lots of our government...
But ignoring every factor and saying "it was slavery" just makes people ignorant of everything else that we need to keep looking out for.
If it was just the votes, they didn't need third party delegates who awarded delegate votes.
Each states popular vote could be used to determine how many "votes" they got by number of elected representatives.
Adding in those non elected people to vote for the "real" election was a safety switch in case the people did something stupid, the delegates didn't have to listen them.
I just didn't want to type all that at first, because it's way to in depth for a random social media comment.
Just because people leave something out, doesn't mean it's because they forgot to mention it.
Right, because why wouldn't it go away if it was all about slavery. It is still doing its job.
That's the thing, it's not doing it's job.
It's sole justification for existing was to prevent someone like trump, instead he tried (and almost succeeded) at highjacking it and claiming other people were the elctorals because they supported him.
There is literally zero reason for it to keep existing
Ahh. I see your point.
Well you see, it's only it's proffered reason for existing. In actuality, it only serves to subvert democracy.
Everyone is corruptible, which is exactly why elevated positions cannot be created just to protect elevated positions. The only thing that can ultimately do regardless of who's running it is disenfranchise the people.