OK. But the will of the people should hold sway more than it does. Too many things that the public wants and deserves, the public does not get. The middle class is collapsing, has been for decades. Gun control, elimination of the loop-holes has public support, but it doesn't happen. Taxing the rich so their maids don't pay a higher rate than they do.You yourself complained about being taxed without being represented. The filibuster. Gerrymandering. The systematic disenfranchisement of segments of the electorate cherry-picked by special interest financed agents. I haven't even mentioned universal health care. This is just off the top of my semi-educated head.
a lot of those very real problems, from what I can tell, have to do with the way that elections are financed--direct-from-lobbyist-pocket-to-legislator's-fur coat type of seat purchasing. The influence dynamic is the problem, and beyond the simple model of holding democratic elections which more or less work (outside of obvious voter disenfranchisement and apathy-injection), taking a sledge hammer to campaign financing laws is the reasonable solution.
In one case you are saying that the problem is how our elections are held, or how our government is arranged. In another, you argue how those models are influenced. I don't think you're wrong, I just think the two aren't exactly the same, and don't necessarily have to be influenced by the inherent corruption that is currently allowed to fester, and that the solution for that isn't related to the model of how we hold elections or the structure of our representative government. Yes, the EC is problematic and the "philosophy" that established its existence is long-since obsolete. ...I mean, we fought a war and defeated traitors more than 150 years ago which explicitly ended the only (immoral) reason for its existence. So yes, its time is long overdue.