Posted on 08/22/2019 9:36:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thanks. Please share it widely as we’re heading into the valley of the shadow of death of AMERICA, the IDEA, if these morons are not routed.
STALIN’S WARNING FOR AMERICA!
https://www.brighteon.com/6039981365001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJa7dYgo51g&feature=youtu.be
The Democrats review the new incoming Freshman pledges
She was clearly missing the point in that video. That farmland doesn’t have a lot of EC votes. The more populous states have greater representation. It is fair the way it is.
They want to eliminate the sovereignty of states and have only one land-mass government, headed by the President. However, that's not the Constitutional framework we operate under.
I wonder if people like Ocasio-Cortez believe that if they do away with the Constitution, the existing leaders can step into some void and take over rulership. They fail to remember that the states were founded by the Declaration of Independence and predate the Constitution. The states ordained and established the Constitution. If the Constitution is abolished, the states revert back to independent sovereign territories with no national unifying framework.
What may come of this is not necessarily what left-wing liberals imagine. In a post-constitution North America, there is nothing to stop, say, California from declaring itself an independent nation. It's possible that the south from Texas to Florida to the Carolinas could reform its own union. New England might follow, creating its own nation from Maine to Maryland. Canada might follow Trump's example and offer to buy Wisconsin, Minnesota or Washington.
We'd end up with a balkanization of North America instead of a United States ruled by liberals with no constitutional guardrails.
-PJ
She absolutely knows what she’s doing. She’s a good little soldier of the lefty commies. They are actively trying to break down the fiber of our constitution.
she is so hawt
GREAT posts, embarrassing House.
I was going to ask if you’d had your eyes checked lately but to be honest, she is not an unattractive person - IF ONLY SHE’D KEEP HER MOUTH SHUT....
WHAT may I ask is “kinda cute?”
In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only white male adult property owners to vote.
That was the ‘becoming strong, prosperous and great’ part.
That is funny!! Thanks for the laugh!!!!
AOC is not misinformed.
Leftists know exactly why we have an Electoral College and they hate it because it hinders their lust for power.
That's the popular mythology. It's purpose was to elect an endless succession of George Washingtons.
This is exactly right. Anyone who puts forth the argument the purpose of the Electoral College is to somehow balance large vs. small states, or urban vs. rural influence hasn’t read their Federalist.
The EC was established in order to put a - somewhat permeable - barrier between the will of the people, and the person of the President. The Framers felt the people should be listened to, but they could not be trusted to make the final judgement.
In Hamilton’s own words:
“It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. ...
It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.”
The Electoral College that currently exists - one where Electors are more-or-less completely bound to choose whoever won the popular vote in their State - would horrify Hamilton, Jay, Jefferson, and the rest of the Framers.
Hamilton goes on to speak of the benefit of “this detached and divided situation” which would ensure “the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications;” and men with “talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity,” would never become President.
I wonder how Hamilton would feel about some of the men who have filled the Oval Office in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
AOC is angry at the Electoral College because she couldn’t qualify to get in to it. Her Bartending grades were too low.
Not one in a hundred Freepers understand the purpose of the EC.
Unfortunately, political parties corrupted the process. The Framers would freak at limiting the practical voting choices to one of two factional party leaders.
With rare exception, the first loyalty of modern presidents is to their party . . . then themselves . . . then, maybe the USA.
The Framers’ process, if followed, meant talented executives with great public virtue, and unburdened with political debts to pay. Men like GW and Donald Trump!
To be fair, it was the Framers themselves who developped the two-party system: Adams, the Pickneys, Ames, and - to some extent - Washington being the Federalists and the Jefferson, Madison being the Democrat-Republicans.
While they did vote in substantially different ways - the splitting of the ticket between the top vote getters, for example - I don’t think they’d be overly horrified at the existence of the PARTIES.
I personally think it’s the calibre of the MEN which would horrify those early Americans.
Hmm. I’m currently reviewing the large v. small state electoral issue in my blog series “Shaping the Presidency.”
Yes, there was concern that qualified favorite sons from small states wouldn’t have much of a chance. BUT, this was a minor matter to address only AFTER the delegates dedicated themselves to a process that hopefully produced an endless succession of George Washingtons.
To give the small states a better chance when, as expected, most elections were decided in the House of Reps voting federally, one vote per state, Article II required electors cast two votes, and one of them had to be for someone outside their state.
But, the large v. small state issue soon fizzled out. From 1804 onward, thanks to the 12th Amendment, electors cast one vote for a President and another for a Vice President.
I just bought a used book, “Why the Electoral College is Bad for America” by George C. Edwards III (2004). Like AoC, he believes in majority popular rule in Presidential elections and fairly ignores the central purposes of the EC. Lots of otherwise educated people feel this way, as if more and more democracy is the cure for all ills. It isn’t. Democracy isn’t perfume. It is poison.
I disagree to the extent that the Framers were very aware of factions, and did everything they could in their design to repulse this great enemy of republics.
Madison goes on at length about controlling factions in Federalist 10.
If you review Federalist 10, you’ll see that the Federalists and Democrat-Republicans of the 1790s were not factional parties.
FOAD
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