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Great discussion.

So I'm hoping folks have been taking notes and paying attention because there will be a test on Tuesday on what we're talking about here our democracy and the tyranny of the minority with Stephen and Daniel.

I want to shift gears to talk a little bit

because you alluded to it

as we were going to break about the systems and one of those important cogs in the system is the electoral process, how we elect a president, unlike all the other offices, every other office in the country.

We require this sort of arcane mechanism known as the electoral college,

you refer to democracies around the globe, eliminating that from as a feature to the election of their leadership. We do not have the direct election of the president here in the United States.

We elect electors who then go do the work in state capitals.

Talk to us about how that distorts the process in your view if it does. And what are some of the remedies to address that given that I don't know if we're going to have a constitutional convention to eliminate the electoral college anytime soon.

Well, we don't we don't need a constitutional convention to eliminate the electoral college.

There have been many, many efforts throughout American history to either reform or abolish the

electoral college.

We got very close.

I think Americans forget this in 1969 the leaderships of both

political parties supported a constitutional reform to abolish the

Electoral College. President Nixon supported a constitutional

college, amendment to a constitutional amendment to a policy

electoral college.

All of our major interest groups,

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