"My team hits lots of foul balls recently. What if, after the game is over, we say that they should be counted as homers?"
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50 states use it and somehow have not descended into anarchy.
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Actually, zero states choose their governors by nationwide votes.
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That argument goes both ways. What other nation has an electoral college?
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Why do you even type this out while knowing what the immediate rebuttal going to be? Then the point about states is made and you have only a dumb non-response to it. Great example to set for defending something we're supposed to cheerlead the legitimacy of
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Two cheers for parliamentary democracy.
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I want to see California's reaction to being required to run their elections based on the rules in place in Florida. After all, a national popular vote would require a single nationwide set of rules about every aspect of the vote. Like whether felons could vote or not.
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“Unprecedented” here means nothing per se as an argument on the merits. Lots of things are normatively terrible and the better thing that replaces them is “unprecedented.” So what? The word obstructs critical thinking by ginning up status quo bias.
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The fact that our system has endured this long - longer than any other on the planet, even if measured from 1804 rather than 1789 - argues against tampering with it.
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