Yes, we do need to get rid of the electoral college

Okay, so, as we know, Clinton won the popular vote, but Trump won the electoral vote. This election is a repeat of 2000 in this regard. Unlike 2000, it's not that close, where Trump won multiple states by close margins that propelled him to victory, but ultimately, once again, a democrat won the popular vote and lost the election.

This is causing a lot of people to protest the electoral college. I wish we could have more discussion about this before an election, and not after when something goes wrong, but the electoral college is a crappy system. It's one of these awkward 18th century inventions that made sense at the time in the context of the technology at the time and the fact that the founders wanted a system without the people voting on candidates directly, but it's out of touch in a modern context. Back then, it made sense that counting up the popular vote country wide was a massive undertaking. It made sense to hold a series of smaller elections across the country and then send delegates to Washington to figure this stuff out. But in this information age of instant vote counting, and the fact that the opinions in only a fraction of states only matter, it's a horrible system. It's no longer needed and quite frankly, it's unrepresentative. It's possible to win the electoral college with 22% of the vote.

That's not democracy, and while some smart*** is going to say "but we're not a democracy, we're a republic", that doesn't fly with me either. To me, the people should have power. If the people don't have power, then we're an oligarchy. And I find tyranny by minority as more dangerous than that by majority. Our institutions are supposed to serve us. We're not supposed to be slaves to them. And this is an institution that doesn't serve the people.

I'll admit, while I don't like Trump, watching the democratic go down in flames is very cathartic to me, given my contempt for the modern democratic party and its flaws. But honestly, Hillary should've won here. She got more votes. My state shouldn't decide the election, the country should. And I hope we do abolish it going forward. This system fails to serve the public in so many ways, and it's just as important to get rid of the electoral college as it is to implement ranked choice voting and all that jazz.