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@@glowluz1 Amendment to the constitution. Sometimes laws or even constitutions need to be reworked, because the conditions under which some laws and articles made sense do not apply anymore. Just like lifelong appointment of SCOTUS justices. At the time SCOTUS was introduced, the average lifespan was 38 years. And I am aware that the avergae lifespan was heavily pulled down by infant mortality and people still got old, the expected lifespans today are much longer than they were. So a lifelong appointment today means something different than in former times. Hence you should consider changing things. And many other countries have term limits for their version of SCOTUS, mostly in the range of 10-15 years without the option for a second term.
The real problem is that we've allowed too much power to move to the federal government. If states had more power, then we wouldn't need to be as concerned about precisely how the federal government "peeps" are selected. And within states, as much power as possible should be handled at the local level. Power should be pushed "down the pyramid" as far as it makes sense to do so.
@@amycantwell8715 My guess is that no red state will ever sign on. You'd have to catch the swing states when they swing blue, & make it impossible for them to leave the compact!
@@amycantwell8715 That's not how I think the problem should be solved. I think the basic balance the Founders installed between large and small states was a worthwhile thing to have - the President should be, at least to some degree, everyone's President, not just the President of urbanites. A constitutional democracy needs to remember its minorities - not just discard them because they're a few votes short of a majority. The right solution is to retain the top level structure we've got, but make the electoral votes of the individual states more reflective of the will of that state's people. The urban states are going to have an edge in any case. That said, each state is free to support that compact if they want to - if it "makes" we'll then get to find out if it's considered constitutional. I'm not a lawyer, and I haven't tried to study it carefully in that way, so I have no idea. But it's not "constitutional or not" just because of anyone's individual preference. We have a nasty tendency in this country of just "wanting what we want," without regard for the system we have in place for making decisions.
I can’t believe those judges that led the 6-3 “Immunity” decision are still in the court!?! It’s unconstitutional and yet they still sit on the court? Unreal!
Amen... But if we eliminate the EC, the Republican's would probably win a lot less elections, which is OK for me, and is why I don't see it ever happening.
@@TomLongone Rather than a term limit, might it be better to establish a mandatory retirement age? Remember, lifetime appointments were intended to provide stability to our laws, to prevent the interpretation of our constitution from changing every time the majority shifts from liberal to conservative and back again, to give some dependability to the rules we live by. We have to remember that the Court is often guilty of “legislating”, I.e., twisting the constitution to fit a predetermined outcome. I believe they could come up with an argument that the sky is green, if that suited their purpose. Long-term appointments help to reduce their ability to constantly twist the meaning of our constitution. A so-called “living constitution” is not a good thing. Amending it was deliberately made difficult so that we could count upon stability. If the rules need to be changed, then they should be changed, but only by the amendment process, not by the whims of a constantly changing court and its interpretation of its “living constitution”.
Thomas Jefferson thought that the Constitution should be reviewed and/or revised every 18-20 years to conform with societal changes. I wholeheartedly agree.
Absolutely. Most Countries update their Constitution every 5 to 10 years. The statutes, law, adjustments and amendments were supposed to make it a living and growing document, to change with the people's lifestyles, technology, social norms, and implementing amendments to grow and live as Americans day to day lives grow, and change. If they didn't mean for it to be a living document they wouldn't have put in the ability and process to add amendments to our Constitution. It wasn't meant to be stripped down to its original form hundreds of years later so the people lose rights and regress back into the dark ages, being a Nation of many people of different races, religions, morals ethnicities, countries, sexes, and we the people are being threatened to be forced back into being half citizens and having these atrocious forced upon us by these backwards, CULT MEMBERS trying to take us back in time legislatively, to that of unequal rights for those unfortunate MAJORITY, certain ethnicities and sexes week be attacked and victimized as UNEQUAL which is absolute insanity because we've already seen this movie, already rode this ride, we paid dearly and it has taken decades to try to repair that damage that was done to those by the "leading" party. No one with any sense who has read this document could interpret it as being a religious, politically biased or REGRESSIVE, because Basically, if you're a rich man, who isn't willing to play their corrupt games, you'll soon become a poorer man with even less rights. It's a lose-lose situation and the national NEO Nazis running the Returdicants party are declining in mental capacity, lying, cheating, fascist, closet homosexuals with LATENT, angry, shameful feelings of themselves. If they hate them selves, there's no way they could care about you. Which, Trump has already told you, HE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU. HE ONLY CARES ABOUT YOUR VOTE! AFTER THIS YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO VOTE AGAIN IF TRUMP WINS THIS ELECTION!!!! VOTE BLUE FOR ME AND YOU!!!
@@mholzman50 electoral college was never needed. It was a mistake by the founding fathers. This was a racist attempt to keep the power in the hands of the fat white people.
I think the Electoral College and Senate should be modified, not abolished. Have an amendment so the EC members are proportionally assigned based on state popular vote and can do ranked choice voting to give more power to 3rd parties without the spoiler vote. Reason to keep the EC is with proportional awarding of electors, you get each state to be a battleground for the one or two undecided elector spots. For the Senate, have a version of the proposed Wyoming Rule for the house that no senator can represent a population greater that 5 times the least populous state. In those cases, states that would exceed that have to have senatorial districts comprised of grouped house districts and be elected by the population of those districts.
The simple fact that at the 2020 election, so many were doing their best to cheat with the Electoral College system and presented fake electors in an attempt to overturn the will of the people, is an excellent argument for doing away with it… period!
That’s not strictly ‘equal,’ which is why the Electoral College balances strict equality with distributive equity, so that candidates have to pay at least some attention to everyone, if they want to win.
@asianguy6174. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. If the Electoral College didn't put him in office, he would have never been president. There would have never been a January 6th, 2020 insurrection. It would have never happened.
I garuantee if I walked out of the grocery store, stopped and started waving around and pumping my fist. I would be branded as stupid, nuts, and a lunatic. 😂🤣
I have been of voting age for 50+ years and still waiting for this electoral college BS to stop, We the people are the ones that should decide who wins, Not some political person with their own agenda
I truly love the idea of one person one vote. The five people who lost the popular vote but won the president due to the electoral college have been the worst president in history because I just went back and checked their bios.
This is my opinion. If anyone has studied this 'carefully,' ( I mean what YOU are talking about) people would soon see that some Republicans have planned this for DECADES. Go all the way back to old man Bush. Not Jr., but he was also just as bad. People forget so much now. Remember how Barbara Bush said that Jr was the *"chosen"* one??? *I DO!!* So much of what happening NOW *began being planned many years back.* Now the Super Rich, like the ones BRIBING SCOTUS, are using the orange windbag as a TOOL! THEY know that his mind is going, and it's a great opportunity to USE him, just as HE is USING others. People NEED to think about these things, and go back and look at the bios of all of these traitors. As a matter of fact, when JFK was talking about outing the *'Secret Societies'* that were out to hurt our country, I personally believe that one of the secret societies that he spoke of was *The Federalist Society!* The very ones 'that were in the shadows,' are now trying to CHANGE THIS COUNTRY, have ruined the SCOTUS and are helping Judge Cannon to dismiss Trump's espionage & documents. Connecting all of these incidents is very important to connecting all of the dots. I ask everyone to serious research and Think about that.
Let’s get rid of people like Tuberville who have no credibility but got elected like Trump because of name recognition. VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT IN 2024
@jay31415 We'd probably still have solar panels on the roof of the White House. The decision to remove them in the first place was driven by sheer ignorance and childish opposition, pathetic hallmarks of republican behavior.
@@lindaalbergo1 When we were taught about the Electrical College, in Jr. High School, I remember thinking to myself... that seems like something a Republican would come up with. My family, we're all from Texas, are all Returdicants, except my mother, brother and I. They all live out of the city in suburbs and we live in the city, but only because my cabin in the pine forest burned down in 2015 and so we're dragged back into Austin once again, but we were always getting into fights over the Evangelical Right, or oppressive Reputurdicant policies and they would bitch and moan about the damn hippies and the long hair blah blah blah lol. But it NEVER got to a place where we would have EVER thought about the IDEA of the THOUGHT of ever disowning family, or family being seriously divided🫤, EVEN OVER CLINTON, (my grandma actually had a secret crush on Clinton, Bill, she wasn't around for Hillary lol,) over politics! Clinton. Who was, for me, my first eligible election to vote in, just after graduating high school in 96. Lol. Bless their hearts, my grandparents, I loved em too death. They passed though, not long after that. I am so thankful that I did not have to go thru Chumps administration et al and the circus shit side show he has become, especially now that Harris+Walz are energized and organized and pulling ahead. He's losing his damn mind. That man is so afraid of having to look at his lies, he comes up with more on the spot, that contradict OTHER lies he's told to take up for some law he's accused of breaking and ends up FURTHER incriminates himself on national TV or a podcast. He CANNOT keep his own mouth shut. He's a NASTY belligerent, spoiled child, who throws tantrums if he doesn't get his way. Trump is not and never has been Presidential material. He's not even Presidential toilet paper material. To Harris-Walz-2024 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇲🇺🇲
You don't live in a country with 50 sovereign sticks either. The electoral College would be just fine if they hadn't gotten away from having a delegate from each electoral district rather than all the bolts of the state going to one candidate
We in the US need to adjust our democratic system. It's archaic currently. We need to get States and our "Congress" to agree on the need to change it up.
I was devastated when Gore and Hillary didn’t get the Presidency. They both won the popular vote. So awful! The Republicans have always been as dodgy AF. This guest is brilliant btw.
It’s hard to convince young people that voting is so important, when most of them live in red or blue states. The electoral college discourages people from voting, because we know the inevitable outcome before we vote. We need a real democracy with popular vote: one person, one vote!!
agreed. i know people (adult people) who don't wanna vote because it "doesn't matter". and part of that sometimes is due to this issue with red/blue states. or, how you vote but nothing ever EVER goes the way you vote for. growing up in FL was like that. the area i'm from is actually blue to purple, and it never mattered. FL has NEVER strayed from red and it feels so horrible and chest-clenching dismay kinda vibes that it's tossing your vote into the abyss and not being represented. if we had people from certain areas, they WOULD be blue. but it's gerrymandered to hell.
I remember the first time I was old enough to vote. I was shocked to hear one of my fellow high school seniors had voted for the Communist party candidate. He said it was his protest that his vote didn't matter, no matter what our teacher said. I chided him, "what kind of a mess would we be in if everybody did what you did?" I feel like we are closer to seeing the answer to my old question than at any time since it was asked.
The last thing our American History teacher told us before we were graduating was that we, our generation needed to take down the "electoral college" or just a few bumpkins will be deciding everything for the whole rest of us. Here we are with these arcane, sucking the ass of the south, laws.
I just saw that the Electoral College has always encouraged voter suppression going back to the era of slavery. That should tell you why it needs to go forever.
I'm against the college. Though Divisions won't be solved if we get majority rule. It's a step in the right direction, symbolically quashing for those racists and exploitation practitioners.
1. statehood for DC and PR 2. SCOTUS to 13 justices to reflect 13 federal court districts (then other reforms) 3. end filibuster Then govern without obstruction!
D.C. doesn't NEED to be a State of we get rid of the Electoral College. It's the Capitol City of the United States, not a State of part of a State. I would go with Puerto Rico and Guam. Our western most Territory DESERVES Statehood, and as it's a Military stronghold, would likely vote for SANE Republicans, (NOT MAGA.)
Personally I think we need 17 justices. 6 from each of the major parties, and 5 that must be made from the minor parties as a buffer zone between ideologies
In Australia, we don't have an electoral college, our Prime Minister is elected democratically based on the popular vote. It is also compulsory for all citizens 18+ to vote or get a fine. This is a far more democratic system that what you have in the USA. I can't see how you can consider being a democracy with a committee of electoral college voters selecting the President. It beggars belief!
The college is unneeded. It causes problems, and is a historical thing mainly it seems. 2024 is not the 1800s. And we have so much better infrastructure for voting and auditing elections. We can have majority rule in the 21st century.
And, since 22 States routinely engage in Election fraud with tricks like Voter Role Purges, Not Tallying Ballots, gerrymandering. What Tricks is Your State Using this Election?? Share.
Love this interview!! I have been obsessed about the electoral college since I was 16 years old. I have sent dozens of letters to my representatives over the years begging to lose the electoral college!!!!!
What we see is a desperate Republican Party with desperate undemocratic actions and legislation. They are desperate because a huge majority is not Republican or conservative.
An addicted craps player.is more sane. Armageddon through Project 2025 (with J6 violence )Dictatorship while dismantling the Constitution❓🩸Really🤪How unAmerican can a party be?
@@twintwitch1I mean why? WTF are they conserving? We need a 2 party system. Right? Set them on the sidelines until they can come up with some kind of a platform.
We the people have to remind them of that! We will not be ruled by a minority. Americans have voted for a democrat through the popular vote over and over again. It's time the congress and SCOTUS hear us and fear us!
@@johnwallach2683yes he does. Just like every paragraph or sentence on here (YT) where folks say they no longer speak with some family members who have been encapsulated by he and his cult. He is No doubt proud that to some, he is that "important."
Great interview and much needed explanation . I’ve been railing against the Electoral College for years, and this breaks it down brilliantly. Thank you for sharing.😊🇺🇸
46 (had to be 21) and my they/them half purple-haired great-granddaughter is registering her peers. Added: I love Gen Z. They don't know how much they remind the old hippies of us.
@@bsmith5304so concerned they get so hung up on blaming President Biden for Gaza I'm not sure how much of the 20th in 21st century history they've been taught, but every president of the United States has served during some military conflict in some part of the world, except for President Carter but he had a very horrific skirmish with the Ayatollah Khomeini and lost hostages so they need to see that no American president is immune, and with the possible exceptions of people named Bush, no American president haa purposefully and intentionally incited a military action against another government/ nation/ terrorist faction, etc. Please. We MUST literally TEACH and inform them of immutable~ not 'alternative" facts, reality and above all...truth. Blaming President Biden for Hamas would be like blaming FDR for Hitler
Not that simple, since the Electoral College is required by the Constitution. But, the Constitution says the EC will vote for the President, and the candidate with the next highest votes will be Vice President. Obviously nothing like the way we do it now. The EC is antiquated and we're even already violating the Constitution, seems to me.
We can't vote for a Constitutional Amendment, but an opinion-type poll--should the Constitution be amended to eliminate the Electoral College?--would be a good deal to get things started.
UK 1st past the post voting system has resulted in the Tories being a ruling minority party for years... just as bad. Not democracy, no written constitution. Still have a monarch and the illusion of empire....
The EC was the product of a lot of compromise by the founders. Some of the founders wanted a more parliamentary system where congress would choose the president with no vote from the people, some wanted direct vote among other systems. The compromise came about because smaller states, and less populous, thought they would get ignored by the weight of the higher population densities. This is still largely the reason it will be insanely difficult to amend the constitution to change it. Fun fact, if no candidate wins an electoral majority (270) the election process is handed to congress where the House of representative chooses the President from the top three candidates with electoral votes, and the Senate chooses the VP from the top 2 VP candidates.
@@dorothywiseman3492Government employees don’t get a lifetime appointment. They get a job many of which require a test. They are subject to management, no guarantee of moving up until they take a test, etc. Lifetime appointments are few and the idea is that those appointees would not be subject to partisan politics. That is part of the idea behind lifetime appointments. Now whether or not it’s working is the discussion. McConnell made up a rule so then President Obama could not appoint a Supreme Court Justice to a vacancy then ignored his rule to allow Trump to appoint Comey-Barrett.
Wake up America! Why on Earth should the party with the MINORITY of votes chose the president? In Europe it is the MAJORITY who chose the government. Scrap the Electoral College!
It's antiquated and no longer relevant. It worked when we were a small country with 13 states but a large country with 50? Doesn't work the same way and doesn't work at all and should therefore be removed.
Would you hold that same opinion if the EC meant more Democrats get elected, but one man / one vote meant more Republicans being elected? Or are you just a partisan hack?
Brian, I ordered it through Amazon. My regular acct. it still counts to getting your sales up, I hope? My husband and I appreciate your work SO much. You have helped us learn better, do better and speak out more about our Country and what is truly at risk. THANK YOU!!!!!
As usual Democrats have to change the rules when they can't win fair and square and you want us to believe Democrats wouldn't steal an election to stop Trump 😂😂😂
Good luck getting 2/3 of the states and the people to agree on changing the constitution. It's how Republicans get elected. They'll never agree to that.
I’m a Californian. I’m sick and tired of states with more cows or trees than people having more power than my state has with 40 million people and the 5th largest economy on the planet.
There's 100 senators and 100% in a whole. So senators should have voting weight according to the percentage of the state population to the whole country. If Wyoming has 0.2% of the US population, then their senators votes should only count as 0.1% each. California has about 11.7% of the population, so their votes should count as 5.85% each.
Brian, you asked the million dollar question that troubles me and I thank you. It is time for our Democratic leaders to turn to and be more proactive 💙
And what happens when "Trump-but-smart" is nominated to the highest office in the land? Direct democracy is a single vote away from tyranny, and that scared the founders, and it should scare you even more. We LUCKED OUT that Trump's term wasn't as democracy-ending as his second term is shaping up to look like. We DODGED A BULLET, and you guys want to make that bullet even more likely to hit? You don't abolish the guardrails when they fail, you build better guardrails.
No, we need a system that requires 50%+1 to win. The American people have been programmed to support first-past-the-post ONLY. We can have an EC that's democratic, but if we replace the status quo with a single-round, first-past-the-post popular vote, we'll cement right-wing minority hegemony for the next generation or more.
Have been saying that for 65 years. The electoral college was fine during the early years of the United States, but it certainly is not viable and has not been viable for at least 70 years.
I totally agree with you. Donald Trump did not win the popular vote on either election and historically speaking we have had the worst presidents through the electoral college
Mother Jones is an excellent publication, highest integrity. Ari is a great author and speaker. These are the solutions we need to bring true democracy. Vote blue.
If Trump doesn't insult your intelligence you probably don't have ANY. Trump is rotten to the core. His brazen hate and disrespect for our country is mind blowing.
I’m so grateful for educating me at this point of being a democrat 88 years old. So peaceful to be here still more democratic than ever. Liberty of thought, Justice and equality for all - how can anyone want otherwise? May we all be intelligently right.
We have the ability to quickly count all votes now, something that wasn’t possible 200 years ago. There is no need for the EC, it is outdated (and, face it, actively harmful) technology.
Brian, as usual, a very informative segment! Thank you for the hours of research time you put into the production your video’s! You and Glenn also make great team!
Thank you Brian for having such a brilliant person like Ari on as a guest. Wow! He succinctly encapsulated what I've been observing for 50 years while questioning whether I was just being paranoid! I immediately bought his book. Based just on what Ari shared here, it should be required reading for all members of the Biden and Dem party admin.
Make America REALLY great again for the poor majority! SPREAD THE WORD! Vote blue, and be sure to call, write, or email your representative and demand a constitutional amendment to elect the president by popular vote NOW!
Brian, your guest speaker was great, I really appreciate his information and have a much better understanding of our present bleak situation. There is hope.thankyou💙
Excellent episode. Ari is awesome; I've seen him before speaking out. I can't afford another book right now, but that's definitely a book I would be interested in. Thank you both 💙💙👍👍💙💙
