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!
