The Electoral College Is A Terrible System/Should Be Removed

1. No, they have arguably done much wrong. Once again, the tariffs from a large portion of the presidents listed hurt the United States (Or will in the case of Trump) and all of them failed to get re-elected (Note that I excluded Bush here, his steel tariff was too small to really do any glaring damage, or at least compared to the massive amount of damage that the other presidents did and also because he got re-elected still), losing to Cleveland and Jackson in 1892 and 1828 respectively. The approval ratings also speak for themselves. Trump is sitting around 40% and Bush, while starting off high, eventually tumbled down to 28%. 2. This is not a fantasy land where business and politics mix. Increasing the military budget and mind you also removing funds from programs such as the EPA which is needed to keep companies and their products in check to prevent massive environmental damage is not just simple business, what happens during a presidency can last for years, even for a century as shown with Woodrow Wilson and his Wilsonian politics still being reminiscent almost 100 years after his presidency. His invasion of Venezuela would just be a repeat of Vietnam only it's the Millennial, not the Baby Boomer Generation that will hold the brunt of his brash and unpredictable decisions. His flat out ad hominen attacks against Kim Jun Un are completely unacceptable and put 2 countries at risk considering the unhinged manner of Kim, and the willingness to give a blank check to Kim after the summit shows he has no clue of what he is doing. Finally, Trump has arguably worsened relations with other nations, such as Canada, most nations of Europe, China, and Mexico. This is not making a deal, this is stupidity leading the country. With a first past the post system, Trump, along with the likes of Adams, Harrison, Hayes (Who I forgot to mention but was the reason why reconstruction was halted), and Bush wouldn't had been elected and the damage that they did would had never been done. The effects of the Hayes Presidency for example still reflects to this day, with racism still being an issue in our country thanks to the halt in reconstruction. Basically, this part explains that every single time the president who loses the popular vote is elected, they have only been damaging our country. 3. It does. It shows that the Electoral college makes unpopular, and destructive presidents win the election. You also purposely took this out of context so that you can make your argument look better when in reality anyone who has taken a closer look would know that I am explaining how presidents that lost the popular vote have often been destructive and only got the office by picking the right states or the House gave them the presidency. 4. This argument makes no sense. You are acting as if I did say that Democracy has happened, which is has, and that the Constitution can be amended, which it can. 5. Just because someone did well in a certain demographic, doesn't mean that they have the right to be president. 6. No, importing voters in our country is a much more democratic form of Gerrymandering, and isn't something that is an issue as of now, and even if they get citizens here, they have a right to vote because they are citizens. It's also something incredibly inconceivable as you would most likely need a few million voters to come in, get their citizenship, and wait for the next election which could take YEARS. Also, no non-citizen would be foolish enough to vote, they would get deported, hefty fines, or face imprisonment. While they did create the electoral college to prevent possible influence from nations, it has also caused elections to be deceivingly close when they really aren't and caused people who shouldn't have been president to become president. I would also like to mention how my opponent has failed to make a proper agreement against the following arguments I myself have stated - 1. How Republicanism is still influenced by the people and thus the people still make the decisions but just in an indirect manor. 2. How electors can simply just make votes on their own without repercussions in a large portion of the states 3. How the electoral college can make votes worthless and thus discourage voting 4. How the House picks who the president is if there is a tie in the electoral college 5. How it fails to properly represent the people of a district 100% of the time 6. How it fails to make smaller states more valuable (And in fact makes them completely worthless) 7. How unfair it is that 70% of the nation can vote against a candidate and that candidate can still win in the Electoral College with the larger states 8. How Gerrymandering is an issue that is inherently undemocratic and un-republican. The last thing that I would like to point out is how my opponent has made some very flawed arguments that have nothing to do with the electoral college, such as 1. When I pointed out that Donald Trump has been a damaging candidate and how the removal of the electoral college would prevent him from doing such damage, he just responded with a book that I probably won't read (Primarily because I have a strong hatred for reading books), and pretty sure that viewers wouldn't read as well. It's an argument that is incredibly flawed and weak, and is just a red herring. 2. Taking my mentioning of the flaws of every president who lost the popular vote out of context. Just because certain parts of my argument are still not in your rebuttal doesn't mean that it never existed, and in fact only makes you look bad as you are failing to respond properly to my arguments. This is another red herring combined with a straw man. 3. In my Rebuttal of the electoral college protecting the Republic, he stated that what I said were opinions. Sure, crashing the economy, ruining relations with other countries, raising tariffs that hurt Americans, supporting the removal and assimilation of Indians that has been proven is an opinion. But getting back into the argument, the damage done by the presidents who lost the popular vote is crystal clear, and it's not like it's 1910 when lies could be more easily spread due to the lacking of round the clock televised NEWS, radio, and the internet, you can look this up and see the incredibly disastrous effects of the Trump, Bush, Harrison, Hayes, and Adams presidencies. And yes, while Bush won the 2004 election with the popular vote, if he wouldn't have had the weight of 9'11 and mission accomplished behind him, he might had faced a much closer election, but right there I am starting to get distracted.