The Left’s Attacks on the Electoral College Are All About Political Power

longknife

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It’s a well-funded all out attack on YOUR vote.


Our Founders were wise. They realized that democracy was nothing but mob rule. They thus established a system unique to America that allowed individuals in their communities to gather to make their votes count.


One has to remember that the President and Senators were never meant to be elected directly by the people. State legislatures elected Senators and members of Congress selected who was to be the president and vice president. Once the two chief executives were selected, it was a combination of Senators and Representatives who would decide which were elected. Thus protecting the sanctity of communal votes. A Representative Republic.


And the Left hates it.


The system is somewhat skewed in favor of small states, as the total number of Electoral College votes of each state is dependent on the size of a state’s Senate and House delegation.

Since every state has two senators, small states have that edge, though not so much that the large states aren’t still far more important to win.

The implications of this are twofold. Small states collectively can check the power of large ones, and more importantly, presidential candidates must appeal to states as states, not to the nation as a giant, undifferentiated mass.

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In that sense, the Electoral College is “undemocratic,” as is much of our political system. The Bill of Rights, for instance, is highly undemocratic. Certain individual rights have been protected from majoritarian rule.

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