I felt a swelling of Dutch/European pride listening to Geert Wilder's Speech to Turkey

Again, I think removing the "winner takes all" system that various states have (I believe almost all of the swing states are this way?) would help to improve the current system.
It might not fix it totally, but I think that would help in working towards something more akin to the British parliament (I actually do like the idea of a parliament).
I think the reason we don't have it is because back when all of this stuff was being put into place:

Granted, I kinda understand why they did it, the American colonists felt they had no representation whatsoever. And even when it was finally discussed favorably by the British, the American colonists had grown too bitter and proud to backtrack.
For the most part, the system has worked, albeit haphazardly. Look at how well America has done over the past few hundred years for being such a comparatively young country, we've had plenty of mistakes, certainly, but the EC hasn't completely ruined the country, despite what some may think.

Granted, all of the latest surge of hate towards the EC is because of the latest presidential election.
Trump ended up being behind by a very small margin (a few million), most of which came from California. So while the EC isn't anywhere near perfect, it's still helped quite a bit by ensuring that some places, like California and Texas, don't rule the elections due to their massive populations. And again, I think removing the "winner takes all" system from states would fix many of the problems that the EC currently has.
Popular vote LOOKS really good, but ends up not being what people think it is. That whole deal with psychology really plays a big factor, and is, in my opinion, why something like the EC can be helpful.
That is, popular vote doesn't mean that everyone's vote is equal. People in densely populated areas (not more pop, just more concentrated) would have more voting power than people in less dense areas.

That would have been nice in America.
Though, to some extent, it is happening. It's actually a big part of why Trump won. I spoke to a LOT of people that had previously voted for Obama, and they chose to vote for Trump. Apparently it wasn't uncommon either, many American Democrats have gotten sick of their party (mainly due to the whole deal with Sanders) and left it, going to the Republicans, Libertarians, the Green Part, etc. It's happened a bit with the Republicans due to the schism between Trump and the other lead Republicans, but not nearly as much.

Don't give up hoping for the fall of the two party system yet, we've got a ways to go!

I'd rather see slow changes for the better anyway, it's much easier to work with. Unfortunately, slow changes also means it's harder for people to see what might be bad about the change right away, which can cause a lot of issues.

 

Electoral college isn't going away, and if it does you might as well just eliminate the voting system entirely.

 

^ quality addition to the discussion

 

that is quite a prediction.

 

Ah, that is new information for me.
I suppose then that it's really more just that I've noticed/seen more of the dislike for it than I used to. Which is ironic, because I was less invested in this election than the last few.

Despite my critiques of a popular vote system, I would like to move towards it. Though, I don't think moving directly to it would happen, it would need to be done in more manageable and "easier to swallow" steps (in order to avoid strong backlash to it).

I tend to think of this, ^,

and this ^, as slightly separate issues.
I do disagree with the amount of rather uninformed support for the EC, though I think the issue of right-aligned Americans saying "you lost, get over it" is a separate issue. They tend to say that out of fear that the election results would somehow be overturned (which at this point would be extremely polarizing and quite possibly harmful), as well as because of grudges and bitterness from being told the same thing during Obama's elections (same rhetoric, just switched over which side was saying what).

Right. I didn't mean (or don't remember meaning) to defend the EC.

We should switch to a lottery system, just disenfranchise everyone equally! Nothing can go wrong. Nothing at all.