Notwithstanding that the actual 'beneficiaries' of the E*******l College are every state and every county that is not among the approximately 9% by geographical area that end up being a numerical majority, it's not even accurate to suggest that the least populated half of the American states are "s***e" states. North Dakota, South Dakota, Hawaii, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Montana..... red and blue alike benefit by not having their every national law reflect only the desires of population centers.

EVEREYONE seems to agree that allowing only the rich, or only the male, or only the white, or wh**ever very narrowly non-uniform coalition might reach 50% plus 1, to make and enforce law is a bad plan. Everyone claims to want to protect racial, ethnic, religious, and lifestyle minorities from oppression (physical and legislative) by the more numerous, but as soon as you suggest that the farmer, rancher, farm hand, ranch hand, roughneck, crop duster or other hard working, God fearing, gun owning Americans deserve some form of protection from the numerical v****g majority, it suddenly becomes a bad idea? Don't pretend that Americans would have, in a 1 to 1 counting system, given a full account of what the laws would mean, would have v**ed for a national Income Tax, Prohibition, the ACA, or even gay marriage, had the v****g public known the new law would be wielded as a club against religious people.

The US system has managed to adapt adequately to meet new demands and challenges, to correct some original flaws, and attract immigrants from all regions on Earth, and all without removing the voice of the minority. My belief is that the structure of our system, and it's deliberate avoidance of a purely majority driven means of legislation and of Executive e******n is the only reason the US survived the Civil War without a dissolution. A purely mathematical majority of the nation would have chosen a far more harsh version for Reconstruction than did Lincoln, and the most likely result would have paralleled the t***sition from WWI to WWII as the Treaty of Versailles and its massive burden and restriction on Germany virtually guaranteed another conflict.

Then again, it seems that the same folks who want a pure majority e******n structure are the same folks who seem to love being micromanaged by government, masked, locked down, shut down, and made to be dependent, infantilized. That ethos is simply not American. The American ethos has always been independence and the freedom to succeed or to fail on one's own merits, one's own sweat, free from massive governmental presence. People by the millions have come for opportunity, not for nannies, and it saddens me that one faction of our nation seems to want to usher in the bread line and the soup kitchen for all citizens, a nation of sheep beholden to their overseers for sustenance, born, living and dying in a cage of their own free e******n.