And Oh BTW, the electoral SYSTEM cannot be put on any “chopping block” short of a constitutional amendment. The Constitution requires an electoral system for electing the President and there is only ONE way to legitimately and validly change the Constitution: NOT from the SCOTUS bench, NOT by calling it “a living document” - ONLY by a constitutional amendment.
The electoral system is a well-conceived implementation of our republican (representative), NOT democratic (tyranny of the majority) from of government. The electoral system is way better than anything the Lying Leftist Tyrants who hate freedom and limited government want to come up with.
The Electoral College is one of the wonderful constitutional devices that implements America’s unique representative, republican, and decentralized form of government. Technically, America is not a democracy which tends towards centralization and the “tyranny of the majority”. America is a republic, giving powerful voice to the minority as well as the majority. The Electoral College implements decentralized power by appointing a representative number of state electors throughout the country as Steve Feinstein explains below.
“Thank G-d we have [the Electoral College], or else California and N.Y. would determine every election. Every time….[T]he Electoral College brilliantly smooths out the variances in the voting proclivities among states and regions. Farmers in the middle of the country and importers and exporters on the shore get roughly equal say, as do Madison Ave. execs and factory workers in Tennessee…without the Electoral College, the country’s entire population is subject to the disproportionate voting preferences of the few most populous states.”
The blue nuts won’t acknowledge it, but, the reason for the electoral college was to reduce the possibility of tyrrany by large states, New York and Virginia at the time.
Trump did take a swipe at the electoral college before the election, but he campaigned for the electoral vote and that’s what matters.
True, but the manner and method of selecting the electors is purely the choice of the states.
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Just a thought-—
Think for a minute how much ‘EDUCATION’ the Founders had as a group.
They built the country—wrote the Constitution & created the Electoral College.
Not bad for many who never got past 6th grade or so.
And all you hear to day from Liberals is that we are all ‘uneducated’ & ‘deplorable’.
Meant to include the link of the site my comments were from:
https://sonsofconstitutionalliberty.com/the-electoral-college/
The site is Sons of Constitutional Liberty which is still under construction but has some good stuff in it.
BTW, the page, “Understand Your Constitution” will hopefully be done soon.