KEEP THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE!

There is a move afoot to abolish the Electoral College and use the popular vote to elect the President. It’s called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, or NPV.

The Constitution says “Each State shall adopt, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.” The original intent was to allow state legislators to determine how best to represent their state in presidential elections.

The electors represent the state, not just the legislature, even though the power to direct the manner of appointment lies with the legislature. In some states, electors cast their vote for whomever receives the most popular votes or in some cases it’s a proportional split.

Essentially what this would do would be to put election of the president in the hands of a few large population areas such as New York and California, while denying citizens in smaller areas little or no voice in the process.

Do you want your president to be elected by those people or do you want an equal voice in the process?

The electoral college encourages candidates to campaign broadly and build coalitions across state lines giving more voters a chance to meet and hear them.

Our republic is NOT a democracy, and that’s the way the Founding Fathers wanted it. You will not find the term democracy in any of the founding documents anywhere. It’s not even in the constitutions of the fifty states.

Odd, don’t you think, especially considering the widely accepted notion we are a democracy? In fact, our Founding Fathers, men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, did not very much like the concept of democracy, and had some rather nasty things to say about it.

James Madison even stated it like this: “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

About 230 years ago, a professor named John Tyler had some very unkind things to say about democracies. He was, in fact, writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years before. I trust you will find professor Tyler’s views as disturbing as I did.

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a Democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a Dictatorship.

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

“These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back into bondage.”

If you ask me, America is somewhere around the apathy/ dependency part of Professor Tyler’s progression right now. There is no way we are anywhere close to the “courage” part. Even the most intellectually-challenged person out there can see Professor Tyler’s prediction coming true right now in America.

Liberals LIKE democracies because they like big government and redistributing wealth.

Liberals realize they can become more and more powerful if they have more government and more goodies to hand out. Just make the voters dependent on government and they become loyal to whoever will promise to keep the goodies flowing.

Don’t forget that old saying, “He who robs Peter to pay Paul can count on the support of Paul.”

One thing you can count on is that if liberals don’t like they rules they try and change the rules. They are still angry that in 2016 Trump lost the popular vote but won based on electoral votes. Clinton received 65,844,610 votes, or 48.2% of the total vote. Trump received 62,979,636 votes, or 46.1% of the total vote. (That’s a difference of 2.86 million votes.) The rest went to other candidates.

That should tell you something.

Liberals realize they can become more and more powerful if they have more government and more goodies to hand out. Just make the voters dependent on government and they become loyal to whoever will promise to keep the goodies flowing.