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We live in a capitalist society, but the colonialist roots of that society aren't the issue.
You need to readsettlers.org
Been there done that, race essentialism ain't it.
They definitely are. The country was founded by a bunch of slave owners. Yes, back then it was difficult to get a bunch of haggard, sexual deviants from Europe, who believed they were rightful owners of a land they just set foot in, to understand how voting works, and collect those votes in a timely manner across a massive country in a time where the fastest means of transport was a horse. Imagine trying to explain instant run off voting to somebody who was dirty all the time and whipped slaves for fun, or the people who had to work in mines and who could barely read, let alone utter a grammatically correct sentence.
The electoral college and first past the post are relics that have everything to do with their time of conception as well as the circumstances they were conceived in.
The here and now is the only thing I care about. If our current system isn't meeting the needs of the people that are alive today, then I don't give a fuck about it or its history. That system is trash and should be destroyed. That system has a name of course and it is Captialism and Capitalism will never allow the working class one iota of power regardless of the excuses you make for it or the history you ascribe to it.
They literally are though, the tools and processes of capitalist extraction and subjugation currently used both inside the US and out are finely honed versions of those that enabled colonial extraction and subjugation.