# DAD DICK BOLDIN CAN ' T BE STOPPED <| sep |> I ' m all for a better system e . g . Ranked choice voting , less gerrymandering , etc . , but at the end of the day we are still a Democratic republic . As time passes , you will likely see more elections like this where the popular vote is completely different from the ec college and that ' s because of the increased amount of urbanization in the United States . More people are moving to cities , which means their votes matter less . Imagine if you had a democracy with two states one with a huge city in it that was home to 4 million people and one rural state with 1 million people . If we created a system based on what people are suggesting , that smaller state would get fucked every single election .