Comment Re:The lesser of two evils (Score 1) 259
Funny enough, reading the Federalist papers I think it was, the idea was that having intelligent none political people with quite a bit of latitude in how they voted as the electoral college would avoid having a populist President like Trump. The President was supposed to be a Statesman. Your Forefathers made mistakes, one being not seeing the rise of political parties as shortly happened, guess they hoped for government by consensus. And your democracy has evolved in weird ways.
Wish I had bookmarked that paper.