> Moreover, while the Electoral College system does give an edge to certain places, no one has ever made it a political issue to get this changed,
Yes, they have, see the National Popular Vote movement. Also, it's not just the electoral college, it's also the Senate which is actually a bigger problem, and exacerbates the EC problem, and whose antidemocratic character is actually the one thing the Constitution prohibits altering permanently (the slave trade had a similar, but temporary, protection.)
Of course all the EC is protected against popular change by change mechanisms which distort power in the same direction as the distortion in the EC and Senate do.
> so that means the majority is OK with the system
No, what the actual failure to implement a change despite a substantial movement directed at it means is that the minority which is advantaged by the system and which has a veto over change because it's also advantaged by the mechanism which is necessary to use to change the system is okay with it.
> They've had well over 200 years to change it now...
No. They haven't; other people (facing similar barriers) may have, but even if failure to overcome those institutional barriers implied acceptance, the failure of people in the past wouldn't imply acceptance of the present majority.
Yes, they have, see the National Popular Vote movement. Also, it's not just the electoral college, it's also the Senate which is actually a bigger problem, and exacerbates the EC problem, and whose antidemocratic character is actually the one thing the Constitution prohibits altering permanently (the slave trade had a similar, but temporary, protection.)
Of course all the EC is protected against popular change by change mechanisms which distort power in the same direction as the distortion in the EC and Senate do.
> so that means the majority is OK with the system
No, what the actual failure to implement a change despite a substantial movement directed at it means is that the minority which is advantaged by the system and which has a veto over change because it's also advantaged by the mechanism which is necessary to use to change the system is okay with it.
> They've had well over 200 years to change it now...
No. They haven't; other people (facing similar barriers) may have, but even if failure to overcome those institutional barriers implied acceptance, the failure of people in the past wouldn't imply acceptance of the present majority.