Anirvan Chatterjee on Nostr: "Why do so many people believe the Electoral College protects 'rural' interests when ...
"Why do so many people believe the Electoral College protects 'rural' interests when it demonstrably does not? I believe what’s happening is that these people are using 'rural' as a euphemism for 'white,' and 'urban' as a euphemism for 'Black.' The Electoral College protects white interests and sensibilities from being overrun by the emerging non-white majority in this country, and the people who defend the EC are desperate to keep it that way."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-electoral-college-is-bad/Published at
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