I ' m sure there ' s a pill for that too . <| sep |> But to be fair there ' s no argument . It ' s quite literally how it ' s designed . If there ' s concern that people aren ' t understanding how the system works , it ' s because that ' s how their comments and discussions of said system come across . I agree the system isn ' t fair but that ' s also even a better reason for continuing the discussion about the system . Discussions aren ' t always supposed to be pleasant and comfortable . We need to be having these discussions and conversations . It ' s interesting you point out that people find these statements to be from intelligent people who correctly assume people who make comments like that ' s not how it works when in fact that IS how it works are showing no understanding of how the electoral college works . There seems to be a wave of antiintellectualism sweeping the world and a sense that if you ' re pointing out facts and logic you ' re talking down to people . But that ' s the funny thing isn ' t it ? How others perceive they ' re being talked to sometimes shapes their distortion of the actual facts being presented . I mean when someone says that ' s not how it works and that quite literally IS actually how it works . there isn ' t really room for much debate other to say here are the facts please educate yourself .