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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thebrownblob" data-source="post: 6004755" data-attributes="member: 60485">It’s not a flaw it’s the feature. The electoral college ensures candidates don’t just campaign in the most populated states. As well as in keeping with what the founding fathers want, they did not want a pure democracy because pure democracy is just the many controlling the few. There’s no liberty there. And would eventually dissolve into wars and anarchy.“A democratic government, they feared, might dissolve into anarchy. A republican system, conversely, invited an aristocracy to rise. If anyone asks you to design a government, run away. The United States was neither founded as a pure republic nor as a pure democracy”[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/deep-dives/republic-or-democracy/#:~:text=A%20democratic%20government%2C%20they%20feared,nor%20as%20a%20pure%20democracy.[/URL]</blockquote>