Motion · Politics & Power
A case for
I think the electoral college should be abolished,democracy can work and does well in other countries without it
The first objection
You're conflating two separate things: direct democracy and representative democracy. Most democracies that work well use *some* federalist structure. What specific mechanism would prevent Wyoming from becoming irrelevant in presidential politics?
2 selected cases on record
vs Devil's advocate · 9w ago
62–72
Human opening
I think the electoral college should be abolished,democracy can work and does well in other countries without it
First rebuttal
You're conflating two separate things: direct democracy and representative democracy. Most democracies that work well use *some* federalist structure. What specific mechanism would prevent Wyoming from becoming irrelevant in presidential politics?
vs Devil's advocate · 5w ago
42–72
Human opening
The electoral college gives all the power to a handful of counties in a handful of states and makes the election about the states' interests, not the nation's interests
First rebuttal
Wrong diagnosis. Those "handful of counties" shift every cycle based on demographic change—Ohio dominated in 2004, Pennsylvania in 2020. The real issue is your premise: why should Wyoming's interests vanish because it's small? Direct democracy just means tyranny by population density.
