{"id":88333,"date":"2020-12-26T18:53:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=88333"},"modified":"2020-12-26T18:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:53:32","slug":"the-electoral-college-is-anti-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/the-electoral-college-is-anti-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over two hundred years ago, some guys slapped together a temporary system to elect the president. They never replaced it. Ever since then, we&#8217;ve been stuck with a convoluted, undemocratic system that all too often allows the candidate with less support to win the presidency. In this episode, we&#8217;ll look at how the electoral college operates, examine its flaws, and consider how we might move past this ill-conceived relic and actually implement real democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Electoral College Is Anti-Democracy\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3SHgd74fjMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over two hundred years ago, some guys slapped together a temporary system to elect the president. They never replaced it. Ever since then, we&#8217;ve been stuck with a convoluted, undemocratic system that all too often allows the candidate with less support to win the presidency. In this episode, we&#8217;ll look at how the electoral college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc","category-voting-politics-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}