Nothing Can Stop a Biden-Trump Rematch, How did the country end up with a choice that most of its voters don't want?

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The system is set up deliberately to prevent doing what the voters want.

And this isn’t some conspiracy theory. Read the Federalist Papers and you’ll find they didn’t want an unruly mob making decisions. Hence why senators were picked by states originally, and why there’s an electoral college instead of popular vote for president.

And it's high time all this was fixed. Just because some dudes 250 years ago thought a system of government was good, doesn't mean it's still adequate today.