Yeah, it's rigged, but not how Lil' Duche claims. The Founders, a white men's group of wealthy land-owners, deliberately skewed representation in Congress towards small, rural states in a series of compromises. The Articles of Confederation were criticized as too egalitarian, but to appease small states, each one was to be represented by two senators regardless of population. This arrangement over time becomes increasingly inequitable [chart above]. The chamber's procedural rules (e.g. the filibuster) also favor minority rule. A Wyoming voter now has the 3.7 times the influence of a voter in California!
Because of the Electoral College system of voting--also installed by the Founders to increase the influence of rural voters--seven swing states with large numbers of white conservatives decide a presidential election. In twenty years, white people will no longer be in the majority. This unequal representation is also the reason Don the Con was nearly able to thwart the popular vote winner, Joe Biden. There is definitely something wrong with a politcal system in which legacy billionaires* can pay to install a minority president into office. We need a popular vote for president to counterbalance congressional inequity and Supreme Court corruption.
*Timothy Mellon, heir to the Mellon banking fortune, donated $50 million to a Trump superpac, MAGA Inc. Billionaires see the Democratic Party as more of a threat to capitalism than Trump is to democracy.
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