The socialist’s grab bag, leading into this 2024 election, is just jammed full of sound bites for their mindless minions. Conceding that they must and will finally select the most plausible empty suit to run against Trump, their next trinket is twofold: furthering their promotion of democracy along with their drum beating about the supposed negatives that our Electoral College system represents.
Given this line-up, the fake news can’t wait!
Forget their empty suit impasse. Any suit will garner the votes from their clueless base. And while their jumbo prize of turning America away from her Constitutional Republic, for the chaos and tyranny of democracy would wrap up their revolutionary aims, that will also have to wait. More attractive is supposedly the elimination of the ‘College.’
I recently stumbled upon an older article from almost twenty-five years ago that recounted a few of the media’s tag lines attached to several incriminating ‘College’ pieces. I imagine that they were previously attributable to arousing the public’s ire against another so-called Founder “relic,” which was eliminated with the Seventeenth Amendment’s passage!
Our Founders were wise in creating a Constitutional Republic rather than instituting the emotional guidelines of a democracy. Their efforts included balancing the States with equal representation and authority. This was their reasoning behind the Electoral College so that the smaller States would not become dominated by the larger States. Today, this precaution is also applicable to the sparsely populated “flyover” States.
However, fairness is not the object of a popular National voting system. In fact, contrary to its public lure of simplifying the election process, it’s merely a tool to manage and control the public’s vote, which is largely assured through today’s persuasive methods for swaying public opinion.
This article was from a time when Hillary first ran for a Senate seat, and in doing so, she stated that one of her aims was to support an amendment endorsing a “direct election” when selecting the President. Also, Illinois Rep. Durbin publicly stated that the College was a “Constitutional dinosaur!” His Illinois Republican cohort, Rep. LaHood, also called for its termination and stated in part that, “The way things get changed is if there’s a calamity in the country, where
somebody were to get the popular vote but lose the electoral vote.” While that “calamity” has come and gone, their unrelenting anti-College crusade continues.
In addition, the League of Women Voters defamed the Electoral College as a “horse-and-buggy” election system. Also, USA Today ran an op-ed from John B. Anderson, a former Presidential candidate and head of the World Federalist Association, who commented that “’ Majority rule’ is a basic tenet of democracy. The Electoral College…fails this test.”
It certainly does! However, in addition, it also provides the proof that our Founders did not create a damn democracy but rather a Constitutional Republic! This fool didn’t realize that in his attempt to denigrate the ‘College,’ he affirmed that America is not a democracy.
This January 2001 piece also cites Rep. Delahunt, D. Mass., with his attempt to sway the public’s interest and probably in the same manner
which no doubt led to the public supporting the Seventeenth Amendment’s passage when he labeled the ‘College’ “…a compromise that reflected a basic mistrust of the electorate.” No doubt, this was typical of that long-ago pro-17th Amendment chorus imploring that it would provide a more direct public voice when selecting Senators.
The bottom line is that America was blessed with a galaxy of Founders who not only understood human nature and various past governing forms but were also willing to sacrifice for and serve the country they loved. I would venture to say that this is kind of reminiscent of someone running today.
Finally, those who discredit our original design, and I do mean original, are the least capable of challenging the thinking of that August gathering in 1787. To do so only validates their evil ambitions since they, more than anyone else, are well aware of their lack of knowledge and personal limitations.
