The Electoral College (and the Senate) are part of the US Constitution to protect low population/rural states from having their votes overwhelmed by states with big cities. The rural states would not have ratified the Constitution without these protections. The city vs farm dynamic is the oldest source of political tension in human history. Now a comic strip creator who thinks he is making an intelligent point wants to back out of the deal because the yokels don’t share his values and vote the way he thinks they should.
I think an objective measure of whether a nation is good or great is – do people want to come in or do people want to leave? By that measure, the US is at least a good nation.
The bloodiest war in our history was fought to get rid of slavery – not the Electoral College.