I was pretty busy this week, so I'm going to allow my father to take the floor today.
Liberals would like to move my country away from a Federal Republic of the Several States organized as a limited government and into a pure "Democracy" where the enlightened majority of "right thinking" people will set the laws for all of us.
I DISAGREE.
Changing the Constitution is a non-starter, as too many states would be effectively disenfranchised by the large, liberal states like New York and California and their foolhardy policies that are already wrecking their state's economies and causing smart people to flee. Let's NOT make those policies national so we can wreck the whole country's economy and so there is no where to flee to.
Too many of the smaller states would NEVER approve a constitutional amendment that effectively signs away their voice. Thus, the sneaky way the left is attempting the subversion of our Constitution is to get the individual states to assign their electoral college votes to the winner of the national majority vote. So far, fourteen states have already agreed to do this. (Including mostly Democratic (or Socialist) bastions like California.)
So far Virginia (my current home) and Pennsylvania (the state of my childhood) have not fallen for this. I want the citizens of the states I'm associated with to JUST SAY NO.
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: the winner of the presidential election should be (and always has been) the individual who got the majority of votes of the citizens IN THE MAJORITY OF THE STATES*. The last two times the Republican "lost" the national popular vote, they lost overwhelmingly in California but "won" the net majority in the other 49 states. The "National Popular Vote" is a propaganda construct of the leftist (Socialist) elite and their propaganda arm and is correctly of no importance in a diverse country. That is why we have the electoral college.
We need the electoral college to prevent the tyranny of a CALIFORNIAN super-majority from controlling the other 49 states.
-- Spike Souders
* Except for John Quincy Adams, who was elected by the Congress when no candidate won a majority of electoral votes (according to our constitutionally prescribed procedures).
Of course it's a power grab. The founders were very skeptical of concentrated power, evem the electoral kind. The Electoral College was their way of geographically limiting that power. As students of history, they understood the dangers of failing to do so.
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