From the start this country has struggled with the problem of minority rule. The Founders gave us a system that excluded women (a majority), people of color, Amerindians, the enslaved, ex-convicts, the young and poor white males. On paper most of that has been fixed, but clever voter suppression techniques still deny the vote to many.
In my lifetime Truman and Clinton were elected without winning a majority (but they did finish first). Bush and tRump won by finishing second. That's ridiculous.
In our system, half the time a minority rules and then often passes laws making it harder for a majority to win. The minority clings to power. We should do something about that.
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