jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 17 days agoNo country still uses an electoral college − except the UStheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up1733arrow-down114
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minus-squaredjsoren19@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-215 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!”