Electoral College Madness--Turning in their Graves

 

The insane system to elect a president created the current mess we are now in and is allowing the president to corruptly press, interview and cajole the electors he wants and not for whom the people voted.  The rightful victors are once again biting our fingernails and waiting while Trump is holding court for only Republican electors from particular states that matter to him attempting to fraudulently change by whim that state's electoral result from blue to red.  This is an outrageous attempt by Trump to steal an election.

The electoral college is an abomination and a democracy killer. It is anachronistic hearkening back to the birth of our nation nearly 250 years ago. "The Founding Fathers debated for months, with some arguing that Congress should pick the president and others insisting on a democratic popular vote. The compromise was the creation of an intermediary -- the electoral college. The Founders created it because they were afraid that a popular vote system would mean that candidates for the presidency would favor cities with the most population and ignore the rural vote. They did not feel the general populace would understand just who was vying for the presidency and so they thought the state legislators who choose electors which to them would be a better more well informed body to choose this important position. Further complicating the task was a deep-rooted distrust of executive power."  Ironically, this is exactly what Trump brought to our nation -- a chief executive who wants and attempts to have a kingly authoritarian power who is now corruptly trying to overrule the voice of the people, Biden having won the election not by a hair but by a mandate of both the electoral college and the popular vote.

The electoral college should be abolished post haste and make the popular vote a rational choice for determining the presidency. It would mean the candidates for the presidency would have to make a trip to all 50 states instead of not campaigning in states that have a decided red or blue hue. Why should Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Wisconsin, Florida and the like, swing states, get all the attention for a presidential election while Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut have no campaigning value at all?

The electoral college now is simply not fair; it can install in office those who did not win the popular vote. The electoral system is a poor, anachronistic and an unjust system because it can elect second place candidates. It is outrageously unfair and it is time to change it.  The kingly Trump is now attempting an unconstitutional coup trying to persuade or even, perhaps, buy electors from swing states to by whimsy switch the presidential winner.  It is just what the Founders feared and has them, proverbially, turning in their graves.  Abolish the electoral college in order to form a more perfect union!