What this election has demonstrated yet again, perhaps more dramatically than ever, is that the Electoral College is an outdated relic that undermines democratic governance and must be discarded if America is to survive as a functioning, just and modern nation.
In 2016 that method of choosing a president enabled elevation to power of a man rejected by a majority of voters , having lost by 3 million votes. Now we are witnessing that same person losing his bid for re-election by an even greater margin likely to exceed 5 million votes. Yet the switch of several thousand votes in a few key states would have wrought the unthinkable; another four years of autocratic, corrupt and incompetent rule by a president who lost the popular vote overwhelmingly.
The will of a majority of Americans is further thwarted by a system that allocates two Senate seats to each state. As Paul Krugman points out, 39 million Californians have the same representation and weight in the Senate as do just half a million residents of Wyoming. The result is a national policy that neglects the needs and disregards the preferences of a great preponderance of Americans and a Supreme Court that upholds the implementation of that inequitable policy.
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