Evening with Vladimir Solovyov (№ 411686)

... not even questions remain, but a statement that the American electoral system is not just archaic, but demonstrates a deep crisis. By the word archaic we mean inconsistency ... that is, at the moment when this system was being developed, it was probably excellent, and there was probably a wide, as they say now, consensus, or agreement on this system. We use the word archaic. That is, inconsistency with the modern realities of this system.