The electoral college is 100% PURE BULLSHIT!

[Metaphorical]

57. It's a Good Question

A contract is an agreement among parties that they agree to abide by, usually with significant penalties if they don't. The problem the framers of the Constitution faced was that there were no real penalties that could be applied if one or more parties violated the agreement. I have long felt that, for all that is was the morally right decision, Abraham Lincoln should have let the South secede. The US at that point was not otherwise at war, had grown enough that it was self-sustainable, and there really was no formal way of enforcing states from seceding short of armed conflict. It can be argued that if it hadn't been for the bone-headed idiocy of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, it probably WOULD have been the course of history, and North America would have then been three primary English speaking countries rather than two.

There is a provision in the Constitution that allows for a new Constitutional Convention when 34 states request it. We are at 28 now. Once such a convention is held, it would require either that the three primary groups - (for want of a better division call them red, blue, and purple) agree to a new constitution or an agreement is made to dissolve the constitution and initiate a new one (quite possibly more than one).

I'm personally not convinced that it would be a bad thing if that happened, even though it would certainly be highly disruptive. I don't see the blue states conceding to red state conditions and vice versa in the near future, and I think both sides are getting tired of having to deal with the idiots on the other side.