"If the president were elected by simple majority vote then small states would be overpowered by large states. Thanks to the electoral college the interests of small states are protected."

Okay but... what are the "interests of small states"? Do small states have a consistent set of certain political interests that are clearly distinguishable from the interests that big states have? Do people who live in small states categorically believe or care about different things than people who live in big states do?

Conservatives like to talk about "small states" as if that isn't a category that includes both Vermont and Wyoming.

    • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      Goddamnit I forgot all about Shays and Whiskey. Fuck George Washington, this might be a bold take but I hope he is dead.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Viewing the American Revolution as a counterrevolution really changes the way you interpret just about every event in it and makes the whole thing make more sense. At almost every point the Founding Fathers were essentially conspiring in secret to rig society to be more favorable to them at the expense of everyone else, I wonder if that has something to do with the popularity of Illuminati narratives in American pop culture.

        • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          There was also a popular movement where people were burning down landlords' homes, think Ethan Allen, which got coopted by the so called revolutionaries.