Posted on 03/22/2019 11:00:48 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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Colorado has a population of around 5.7 million. Or 1.75% of the country.
Despite that, Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact after Colorado’s General Assembly passed the National Popular Vote bill by 34 to 29.
The bill to disenfranchise Colorado voters was sponsored by Senator Mike Foote, a Democrat, Representative Emily Sirota, a “progressive” Democrat, and Jeni James Arndt, a Democrat. The bill passed in a party line vote with Democrats lining up to make Colorado politically irrelevant.
The Popular Vote Bill conspires to bypass the electoral college and toss out the votes of Coloradans by awarding the state’s electoral college voters to the winners of the popular vote: also known as whichever candidate New York and California billionaires decided should run the country.
California has a population of almost 40 million. New York has a population of almost 20 million.
Both states would vote in a chicken, a serial killer or Adolf Hitler if he had a D after his name.
Colorado doesn’t even have 6 million people to put up against that 60 million. If the compact were to take hold, why then should any presidential candidate ever bother campaigning in Colorado again?
In the last election, both Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton held rallies in Colorado. But if Colorado’s electoral votes go to whomever New York and California elites pick, there would be no point.
New York City alone has 3 million more people than Colorado. They’re all boxed in within 300 square miles. Meanwhile Colorado voters are scattered across over 100,000 square miles. Even Denver only has a population density of around 1,700 per square mile. New York City has 27,000 people per square mile.
Why would any presidential nominee bother hunting and pecking for Colorado voters when Los Angeles County has 10 million people with a density of 7,500 people per square mile that he can just scoop up?
“This really isn’t a red versus blue idea," Senator Mike Foote lied. "This is about making sure that the president of the United States is elected by the entire nation."
The only reason Colorado’s elected officials chose to disenfranchise their state is that they are thinking like Democrats, not like Coloradans. They’re satisfied with only having input during the Democrat primary process and they don’t care if both candidates ignore their state during the general election.
The eleven states that have signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact are a curious combination of winners and losers. California and New York, the states with the most to gain from being able to determine presidential elections, are on board. But, on the other side of the dial are Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The three states together weigh in at a little over 3 million.
The compact puts Colorado in a grim place. But it’s still almost twice as populous as all three tiny states combined. Their only political assets were their electoral college votes. And they chose to give those assets away to New York and California in the hopes of rigging a future presidential election.
New Mexico, which is feverishly trying to join, has a little over 2 million people.
The electoral college was meant to protect the political power of even the smallest states. But Democrats in some of those states are eager to abandon local power for national control. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact nationalizes local votes in a trick of political socialism.
Why are small state Democrats so willing to abandon the rights and power of their states?
Take Jared Polis. He’s a California tech industry guy worth around $400 million, after inheriting a greeting card company from his parents, who bought his seat by outspending everyone else.
Polis is typical of the new blue elite transforming the country. His fortune may be impressive by the standards of Colorado politics, but spending a few million wouldn’t have bought him anything in California or New York. (Just ask Tom Steyer, who blew through tens of millions of dollars for nothing. Or Michael Bloomberg who spent over $100 million to buy just one mayoral election in New York City.)
Colorado elections are much more affordable.
Over in Rhode Island, the popular vote bill was signed by former Governor Chafee. His own conflicts were bad enough and his successor, Gina Raimondo, who worked in a venture capital firm in Manhattan, outspent her opponents by millions in a campaign funded by out-of-state donors, the finance industry and major executives. Her transition team was packed with banking executives.
Is that the bio of a politician who cares about state sovereignty?
Governor Raimondo managed to raise $2.2 million in campaign money in a non-election year in a state with a million people. $1.35 million came from out of state. Only $872K came from Rhode Island. Much of Raimondo’s cash came from California donors, including Hollywood and the tech industry.
When California and New York money elects politicians in Colorado and Rhode Island, is it any wonder that it also controls their votes?
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact isn’t about fairness. It ratifies the power shift from the traditional political system that was built to protect the sovereignty of small states against the financial and cultural power of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, to new cultural and economic powerhouses.
The problem isn’t mere geography.
This isn’t a civil war pitting states against each other. New Yorkers and Californians aren’t the problem. New York and California are dominated by conglomerations of financial and cultural elites from outside the respective states that have disenfranchised state voters there as thoroughly as in Colorado.
When we talk about New York and California, what we really mean is the disproportionate power and wealth of certain industries and the manufactured elites they have gathered from around the country. These elites have hollowed out and disenfranchised actual New Yorkers and Californians, before going on to do the same thing to other states with puppet governments that run locally, but obey nationally.
Their scheme, cultivating a welfare class to disenfranchise the middle class, open borders and mass media propaganda by the alliance between the mainstream media and the tech industry, again New York and California, has worked in these respective states, but is meeting with opposition elsewhere.
The 2016 election was a backlash against the concentrated power of the elites and their tactic, mass migration to disenfranchise and impoverish American voters, became the central election issue. The geography of the resistance has also been concentrated in a handful of big blue states, and has used huge infusions of New York and California money to hijack local elections in smaller states and areas.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact formalizes the centralization of power in the few wealthy areas of a few powerful states at the expense of the multitude of smaller states of the country.
It overturns the balance of power keeping a handful of powerful states from controlling the country.
The compact’s backers claim that they want greater equality. But, like so many leftist reforms, their proposals centralize power in the hands of smaller numbers of people leading to greater inequality.
Opponents of the electoral college insist that what they want is for every voter to have a voice. The reality of what they propose is for California and New York Democrats to pick every president.
California and New York contain some of the country’s heaviest concentrations of major donors.
What the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact really does is allow a few New York and California billionaires to determine who will run the country until the San Andreas and Ramapo faults rupture.
That’s very promising if you’re a Hollywood studio boss or a Wall Street titan. It’s much less appealing if you’re a Colorado rancher or a Rhode Island fisherman who has been disenfranchised so that a few of Nancy Pelosi’s billionaire pals in San Francisco can always get to decide who sits in the White House.
And that is the “equality” at the heart of the vision that the Democrats have for America.
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It must be fought but this proposal still is just a joke with no legal force or effect even if all 57 of obama’s States were to endorse or approve it. Would not meet th process for adoption as an interstate compact
We need to pummel small States with ads we explaining this.
Greenfield is so smart, he's practically indispensable.
Would be funny though, to see their decade-long effort overturned overnight by a court.
Tax revolt time. If everyone who has their vote silenced refused to pay anymore Federal taxes they would slam on the brakes and throw it in reverse.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, this compact were in place and Donald Trump won the national popular vote but lost in the Electoral College. Do you think there is a One chance in a Million that the State of California would cast it’s Electoral Votes for Donald Trump?
This is Calvinball. This thing is only going to work in one direction.
It’s clear that even the Constitution will not stop these Marxist radicals from working to gain power. These people will stop at nothing to achieve their goals of complete power and destruction of the institutions that have held this country together and made us great.
"Despite that, Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact [??? emphasis added] after Colorado’s General Assembly passed the National Popular Vote bill by 34 to 29."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states can only make compacts with each other with the consent of Congress which these states have not done with politically correct, Constitution-ignoring, winner-take-all electoral votes.
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State [emphases added], or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
H O W E V E R …
The corrupt, swamp Congress will predictably remain silent about unconstitutional state compacts dealing with electoral votes if they help a Democrat to win Oval Office.
But more importantly, the states surrendered their power to make winner-take-all laws for electoral votes imo when they ratified the 12th Amendment.
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; …"
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
Colorado only has six million people!??!?!
We need to start creating more states!!
Heck, Staten Island has half a million and I believe that is not much less than one or two states out there.
We have NOTHING in common with the state we are a part of or the state across the water from us.
Too bad states can’t be separated a little. Staten Island and Upstate NY would make a sizable state.
Dumbass Delaware has just voted to swim with the lemmings on this issue. This state is so blue it hurts so as a practical matter, my presidential vote doesn’t matter anyway, but this whole scheme is just a way to rig the elections so cities like LA and Phila. who have more “registered voters” than residents can put in the “Socialist of the Month” as president and get lots of free stuff.
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The Democrat party has been a criminal cabal since its inception. It works with absolute coherence to overthrow the law of the land in favor of its own best interests. It is a massive PONZI that will, in fairly short order, be outlawed. Trump is pushing them further and further into oblivion. Their increasing extremism is emblazoning the immorality of their party across the nation. To increasing numbers Democrats are the party of murder and mayhem.
AND California's known for voter fraud...
That pesky Constitution to the rescue once again.
But, the moment any Republican wins the popular vote, these states will back right out of this compact. It is only a plan to push electoral votes to Democrats. ONLY DEMOCRATS UNDER ANY SCENARIO.
It's the sort of corrupt meddling that will lead to real shooting with real bullets. Keep playing, Dems, keep playing.
A better compact would be those West of the Mississipi should register and vote in California and their home state, those East should do the same in NY State and their home state. As far as I can tell California accepts all ballots submitted, I would assume NY State has similar lax requirements...... Fight fire with fire..... New Yorkers have been double voting NY and FLA for years, time for some payback
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