The 2026 blue wave could end up washing away the Electoral College. In addition to winning Congress, Democrats won full control of state governments in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That means that a two-decades-in-the-making plan to switch our presidential elections to a popular vote system — a plan 18 states have already approved— […]
“Now that we’re winning texas, the corrupt system that allows a president to lose the popular vote but still be elected favors us. So lets not change anything.”
That line of thinking is how we also get a president with too much power.
Same with gerrymandering. Once youre in power, why change anything? It clearly worked for you!
Why vote for a billionaire tax? You could be a billionaire some day too!
In Canada it’s on ranked choice, proportional rep or other alternative voting systems. Every time someone campaigns on implementing it, and occasionally they get in but as soon as the first-past-the-post system lets them through the door, they chicken out.
Same in the UK. Burnham made promises of electoral reform which were shelved as soon as he became PM.
It’s mildly infuriating even to read about that, must be really burning to witness that :(