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You cannot have a direct democracy in a nation of over 300 million people due to real world practical considerations of time and space which would not make it practical nor even possible.
So why do you object to the electoral college?
The founders had cities in their time, they knew that a checks and balance between the electorate in the cities and the electorate in country side was needed, else the electorate in the country side would be enslaved by the electorate in the cities by mere count of votes, hence, the electoral college, and the checks and balances that it formalized.
I would suggest:
The former CEO of NPR set out for conservative America to find out why these people are so wrong about everything. It turns out, they weren't.
Ken Stern watched the increasing polarization of our country with growing concern. As a longtime partisan Democrat himself, he felt forced to acknowledge that his own views were too parochial, too absent of any exposure to the ''other side.'' In fact, his urban neighborhood is so liberal, he couldn't find a single Republican -- even by asking around.
So for one year, he crossed the aisle to spend time listening, talking, and praying with Republicans of all stripes. With his mind open and his dial tuned to the right, he went to evangelical churches, shot a hog in Texas, stood in pit row at a NASCAR race, hung out at Tea Party meetings and sat in on Steve Bannon's radio show. He also read up on conservative wonkery and consulted with the smartest people the right has to offer.
What happens when a liberal sets out to look at issues from a conservative perspective? Some of his dearly cherished assumptions about the right slipped away. Republican Like Me reveals what lead him to change his mind, and his view of an increasingly polarized America.
Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right
Take a look from the perspective of what liberals deridingly call 'Fly Over Country'.