The true evil of the Electoral College is that makes the vast majority of people& #39;s vote not matter, and by extension it makes their lives not matter to politicians.

Trump has no reason to care that California is on fire. Literally none. Because he can& #39;t get votes from it.

The crazy thing is, most of the towns burning in California are Republican parts of the state! It& #39;s Trump-supporting farmers and loggers losing their livelihoods. And he has no political incentive to give a fuck because California& #39;s a blue state and their votes don& #39;t matter.

Every state has Democrats and Republicans. Every state has regions of voters with different needs and interests.

If we had a national popular vote, politicians would be forced to listen to all of these disparate groups. Under the Electoral College, most of it doesn& #39;t matter.

The entire reason we have the idea of red and blue states — the only reason our politicians and our media stereotype each state as latte-sipping urban elitists or backwards cow-tippers from Bumblefuck County, Nowhere — is that the Electoral College artificially makes them so.

This is why I want to slam my head on a desk whenever someone says the Electoral College is necessary to ensure small/rural/middle/whatever states are properly heard.

It does the opposite. It makes politicians see each state as a bastardized, one-dimensional parody of itself.