Which will require a Constitutional amendment. Which most of the states won’t go for because most of them will lose power.
So we’d need a supermajority in both the House and Senate to do it.
Which will take decades of elections to get to, if it ever happens. And even if it does there will be other, more urgent things to do before then, and then we’ll lose the supermajorities and have to start from scratch again.
Telling people we just need a couple good elections is creating false hope.
It’s not false hope. It’s just a long journey ahead.
You obviously understand more about the details of US politics than I do, and perhaps getting rid of the electoral college isn’t realistic right now.
I get where you are coming from, this doesn’t mean we can just sit back and enjoy. But this kind of turnout is a good thing. Harris is going to win, and that’s the first step in the right direction.
I’ve seen this sort of thing too many times, only for it to fall apart completely because nobody explains to the kids that they need to keep this pressure up. I refuse to get my hopes up again.
Which will require a Constitutional amendment. Which most of the states won’t go for because most of them will lose power.
So we’d need a supermajority in both the House and Senate to do it.
Which will take decades of elections to get to, if it ever happens. And even if it does there will be other, more urgent things to do before then, and then we’ll lose the supermajorities and have to start from scratch again.
Telling people we just need a couple good elections is creating false hope.
It’s not false hope. It’s just a long journey ahead.
You obviously understand more about the details of US politics than I do, and perhaps getting rid of the electoral college isn’t realistic right now.
I get where you are coming from, this doesn’t mean we can just sit back and enjoy. But this kind of turnout is a good thing. Harris is going to win, and that’s the first step in the right direction.
I’ve seen this sort of thing too many times, only for it to fall apart completely because nobody explains to the kids that they need to keep this pressure up. I refuse to get my hopes up again.
Well I suppose some rando on lemmy isn’t going to change that.