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One of the consistent problems with the lust for political power is the lack of considering the future. If the roles were reversed, it would be republicans wanting a total vote and the democrats wanting the electoral college. Those roles could very well be reversed in the future. Imagine how the New Yorkers would feel if the total vote were for a a republican candidate and they could have changed the electoral outcome had they voted their state's preference rather than the national one.
It is foolishness. We need to remember that we are supposed to be a union of states, not a national government with 50 provinces. The decline of states' rights hasn't improved anything in my view. We just have more government, more spending, more waste and less prosperity. Since power always corrupts, we are better with power being diffused more throughout the states than centralized in Washington. The more we centralize, the greater the concentration of power and the greater the level of corruption. We've been doing it wrong for as long as I've been alive.
It is foolishness. We need to remember that we are supposed to be a union of states, not a national government with 50 provinces. The decline of states' rights hasn't improved anything in my view. We just have more government, more spending, more waste and less prosperity. Since power always corrupts, we are better with power being diffused more throughout the states than centralized in Washington. The more we centralize, the greater the concentration of power and the greater the level of corruption. We've been doing it wrong for as long as I've been alive.