Every four years, we talk about the possibility that our election will be decided undemocratically — that the votes of the majority of people will be disregarded. Does the system have to be this way? No. The Electoral College, designed to subvert democracy and preserve the rule of a rich elite, is just the most obvious example of how our system rewards those in power. Bhaskar Sunkara explains.
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Seth Ackerman’s “Burn the Constitution” (https://ift.tt/2guhN0U), published in Jacobin in March 2011.
Meagan Day and Bhaskar Sunkara’s “Think the Constitution Will Save Us? Think Again” (https://ift.tt/2OUMhcs), published in the New York Times in August 2018.
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