The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is.
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
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When our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system, the electoral college, from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they have no clue why this is how we choose our president. More importantly, they develop a stunted sense of their own power — and little reason to believe they might have the potential to create something better.