jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoNo country still uses an electoral college − except the UStheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1723arrow-down114cross-posted to: progressivepolitics@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1709arrow-down1external-linkNo country still uses an electoral college − except the UStheconversation.comjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square82fedilinkcross-posted to: progressivepolitics@lemmy.worldusa@lemmy.ml
minus-squaredjsoren19@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-228 days agoI know there wasn’t exactly much else to go off of at the time, but it still blows my mind that the American Founding Fathers looked at an empire that collapsed largely due to political corruption and thought “oh yeah, this is what we gotta use!”
I know there wasn’t exactly much else to go off of at the time, but it still blows my mind that the American Founding Fathers looked at an empire that collapsed largely due to political corruption and thought “oh yeah, this is what we gotta use!”