People need to understand that the electoral college is working as designed.
The US was created to be something like the EU: a confederation of states.
Everyone intuitively understands that Luxembourg and Malta need to have protections in the EU so that Germany and France don't always get their way. The only way to achieve this is to have some disproportionate representation for the smaller member states.
In the US we have become much more centralized since WWII and FDR and now we seem more like a regular country with a unified power structure. But the system we're built upon is still designed for a group of largely autonomous states.
> People need to understand that the electoral college is working as designed.
The electoral college was indeed intended to ensure representation for all of the states, but it is definitely not working the way it was originally designed.
The original design assumed that the voters would vote for electors by name (i.e. the electors' names would be on the ballot, not the candidates' names), and the chosen electors would exercise independent judgment and vote for the candidate they thought would be the best president. We know this is the original intention, because the people who designed the electoral college wrote about this at length.
When some states started putting the names of the presidential candidates on the ballots instead of the names of the electors, James Madison and the other people who designed the electoral college were very unhappy about it. They felt so strongly about it that they proposed amending the constitution to require that ballots contain the electors' names rather than the candidates' names.
When electors are bound to vote for a certain candidate, it's clear that the electoral college is not working as it was originally designed.
> People need to understand that the electoral college is working as designed.
Well, as much as is possible given the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 24th Amendments. But they also need to understand that the Electoral College was designed to reward disenfranchisement (which it still does) and protect slavery (which, at least in formal terms, it no longer does.)
I dunno if it's actually working as designed, if only because it doesn't seem like it will step in and prevent Trump from being US president, which I believe is the stated purpose of the electoral college, based on contemporary writings.
If the elecrotates choose Trump, the electoral college will have failed its final test.
The US was created to be something like the EU: a confederation of states.
Everyone intuitively understands that Luxembourg and Malta need to have protections in the EU so that Germany and France don't always get their way. The only way to achieve this is to have some disproportionate representation for the smaller member states.
In the US we have become much more centralized since WWII and FDR and now we seem more like a regular country with a unified power structure. But the system we're built upon is still designed for a group of largely autonomous states.