Popular vote is meaningless. Wow. To use that as an indicator of anything is counterproductive and considering many were fraudulent, even more misleading.
That there have been a few elections where the winner of the popular vote did not win the electoral college is used by the left to agitate to get rid of the EC. To do that would violate the most basic premise of the United States which is exactly that: United
States: A bunch of separate states uniting for a purpose; NOT the Empire of The District of Columbia. Each state is sovereign and under limited federal control as outlined in the Constitution and with power to elect federal officers through the EC which is designed to empower the
state, not the individual citizens.
Thus we are not a direct democracy. We already partially damaged states’ powers with the 17th which we never should have done. People need to get over the popular vote. If you need to understand why, take a look at Texas right now asserting it’s rightful sovereignty by trying to protect her borders while the criminally reckless federal apparatus opposes those efforts. The good of the
state must be considered in addition to the good of the individual and that is what the EC endeavors to address.
If the federal government were elected by popular vote, in other words a direct democracy ignoring state boundaries, then the overwhelming numbers in a few east and west coast cities would always prevail over the needs of all the other states. Why bother having states then? We would be back to feudal autocracy with sparsely populated but productive flyover states enslaved to support crowded little patches of land full of decadent elite and lazy underclass neither of which have a clue how to produce food or electricity.
No. Fuck the popular vote.