re: #272 researchok

Also, if the Electoral College is done away with, won’t candidates only focus on large States, ignoring the small ones altogether?

I don’t think so. States simply won’t matter. The people will.

You could argue that more populous centers of the country will beat the sparsely populated ones, somehow. But that is already the case within States as it is.

That said, the opponents to raising the debt ceiling did manage to bring uncontrolled spending to the fore- and helped to highlight a highly dysfunctional Congress, out of control lobbying and dirty dealing in DC.

I don’t know if that is what they did. Foremost they brought about a downgrading of the US credit rating. And they deceveived the public about what raising the debt ceiling meant: In their narrative, increasing the limit on new spending, when it actually was just authorizing the payment of bills that would have come due anyways because of obligations already authorized.

This touches on the “uncontrolled” aspect of spending. Is it really uncontrolled or just inevitable? Is the kind of “control” the GOP told the public about not just fictitious at best and fiscally dangerous at worst?

I don’t think a serious, popular debate about this has even begun. If anything, the GOP has prevented it from happening. That’s not to say that the Democrats have been of any help, either.