This seems to be a common answer . Is there really an unlimited demand for actuaries ? <| sep |> Its not meant to replace bitcoin <| sep |> With Trump behind the wheel it seems as though a terrorist attack even a twentieth as bad as 911 could lead to a multitrillion dollar backlash . This is a man who doesn ' t understand why we don ' t use our nukes or why we didn ' t just ' take Iraq ' s oil '.<| sep |> Did you just try to interrupt him ? Let him fucking finish ! <| sep |> what was the Final outcome ? <| sep |> If the president ' s job is to be accountable to all states and all people , it doesn ' t matter what the geographic location of the people who elected him is , that ' s still his job . No , the President ' s job is to execute the will of Congress , which represents all people through elected representatives . Arguments from tradition are fallacies . The fact that it ' s been this way for a long time doesn ' t mean that it ' s been working optimally . My argument isn ' t that the Electoral College is a perfect system because it ' s old . My argument is that nobody was complaining about the rules a month ago , but now they ' re suddenly broken . Well , Trump voters were complaining , and Hillary supporters said it ' s fine , you ' re just mad the polls have you losing key States . Now they think their candidate won , beating a rigged system , and Hillary ' s supporters have changed course , and think the rules are wrong . My point is that you can ' t agree to the rules , and then complain about them after you lose . If the rules were unclear , or changed suddenly , or there was some other obstruction , you ' d be right to fight it , and to complain . But the rules haven ' t changed in a very long time . The candidates knew what game they were playing , and seemingly had no problem doing it . If Hillary and her supporters had made even a single comment beforehand about how the Electoral College was broken , it would be much easier to take the complaints now seriously . Other countries manage it . We could easily force coalitionbuilding and compromise with other , more sensible changes to our election system . We could , but they also have their party leaders become the head of their legislature when a party takes over . It ' s pretty clear the Federal government was intended to gridlock , though . It ' s working as intended . What ' s not working as intended is the State elections . People pay no attention to the world around them . Nobody is going to represent you better than the local City Council . Not your Senator . Certainly not The President . Focus on local elections . Don ' t worry about the President . Don ' t let the President have any real power . Let them oversee the daytoday tasks assigned by Congress , and worry about how Congress is elected . But the President is not your representative , and shouldn ' t be treated as such . The Electoral College was put into place explicitly so that elections wouldn ' t have the President be too accountable to the whims of the general population .