There is nothing to debate with you here, because
you offer nothing to support your own opinions. You pretend to be educated and accuse me of being “unread” on these issues. You obviously haven’t read or considered the warning of Washington I quoted about the threat that the “spirit of party” represents to our “popular” Republican form of government.
Not merely Washington but the main writer of our Constitution and Fourth President, James Madison, also reacted negatively to the partisan spirit that quickly arose in the new Republic. Like Washington a Federalist who feared the rise of popular passions fanned by “party partisan” demagogues, he was above all a public servant and a thoughtful politician.
Madison sought alternatives to the then clearly misfunctioning Electoral College, and especially opposed the early spread of state “winner take all” partisan selection of electors. If he lived today, he would no doubt support reforms like “Instant Runnoff Ranked Choice Voting”:
As historian Garry Wills
wrote of our fourth president, “as a framer and defender of the Constitution he had no peer.” Yet, when he helped create the Constitution and when he defended it years after his presidency, Madison repeatedly argued for alternatives to the winner-take-all method of choosing a state’s presidential electors. Like other leaders of that time, he looked at the world with clear eyes and learned from experience, unafraid to support change when that change made sense. —
Why James Madison Wanted to Change the Way We Vote For President - FairVote
Of course today partisan demagogery has infected our professional politicians and much of the public as well, as reflected by the insulting “discourse” that usually goes on right here on USMessageBoard.