fandomsandfeminism:

fandomsandfeminism:

sklittlesowo:

xylophonetangerine:

ye but tbh california and new york shouldn’t dictate what the rest of the us should do imo

California and New York aren’t sentient hive minds.

6 million people in California voted for Trump in 2020. 5 million Texans voted for Biden. 3 million New Yorkers voted for Trump.

But in the winner-take-all Electoral College, those peoples votes all got thrown out.

Stop imagining states as perfect political monoliths. Stop treating states as coherent entities that perfectly represent the opinions of the political majority, regardless of how slim that margin is.

Stop acting like a person’s *geographic location* should affect the *value* of their vote.

I want to add- switching the presidential election over to a simple popular vote, while better than the convoluted nonsense we have now, still isn’t the best solution.

1. For elections in which there is only 1 or 2 seats up for grabs (president, governor, senator, etc) ranked choice voting is a better system.

2. For elections where multiple seats are at stake (city council, house of representatives) - either party proportional or mixed-member proportional systems are really good. (And, because we wouldn’t be using first-past-the-post for each congressional district anymore, would reduce or even eliminate gerrymandering)