Posted on 03/01/2019 7:38:16 AM PST by C19fan
It’s still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week. On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado, said he would sign a bill to join the National Popular Vote interstate compact, whose members have pledged to give their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. The Maine Legislature, likewise, is mulling membership and will hold hearings to discuss the issue.
Attacking those lawmakers, Paul LePage, the former governor of Maine — who still calls into conservative radio shows from his retirement home in Florida — dismissed the proposal as an attack on the political rights of white people. “Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re going to do is white people will not have anything to say,” he said. “It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida.”
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Democracy is the greatest threat to our Republic.
The citizens of the great state of Bagman certainly do not.
...and we are able to know this how? Speaking of the great State.
The Electoral College is only a threat to the Leftist intent to turn the US into Cuba.
Hi.
“If the Chinese started offloading Infantry in Seattle and Long Beach would you rush over there toting a rifle to help out?”
I’d have to give it some thoughtful consideration.
Probably.
5.56mm
Yeah, that’s whom I’m getting my political philosophy from.
“The Constitution IS our form of democracy.”
Democracy is mob rule. A totalitarian manifestation. 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. 2 imams and a hillary slut deciding who gets to have the clitorectomy.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land written to keep the govt and the masses of asses(mob rule) at bay. To ensure that we have a chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
BTW—Someone should tell Tucker Carlson to stop saying ‘our democracy’. He sounds like a fing moron.
The left thought it was great when they were hoping gore would win by recounting untill he won Florida.
Every time a demoncrat loses the presidential race, they want to get rid of it. Every time they win, they thank the Electoral College for the win.
The only “Threat to our democracy” is this cabal of seditious ass wipes. BTW, you twits, we are not a “democracy” - we are a representative constitutional REPUBLIC.
There’s gonna be another shootin’ war in this country - real soon.
Democracy is the greatest threat to the Constitutional Republic that is the United States of America.
I will not follow laws created by a 50% plus one majority rules process.
JoMa
The Dems ignore Federalism and the history of how the Electoral College came about. They don't like the fact that each state has two senators. In essence, the Dems are trying to convert us into a democracy from a Republic.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Mentioned in related threads, the Founding States prohibited the states from making compacts with each other without the consent of Congress.
"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 [emphasis 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 …
I wouldn’t be surprised if the anti-PDJT Congress stays silent on this unconstitutional electoral vote compact.
Additionally, patriots need to support PDJT in leading the states to comply with the 12th Amendment procedure for counting electoral votes by putting a stop to unconstitutional state winner-take-all laws imo.
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]; …"
Finally, bear in mind that the reason that Democrats want to do away with the electoral college is this imo. Democrats want to keep and exercise state powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states, including continuing to steal state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, union dues paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Again, patriots need to support PDJT in peacefully politically “forcing” corrupt Congress to surrender stolen state powers back to the states.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots likewise need to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Remember in November 2020!
“...without one word about what type of popular vote to replace it with....”
Are you accepting the idea that the Electoral College needs to be replaced? And merely at the whim of the Times?
The Times does not like the Electoral College because it defeats “their” democratic ideal but assures the Founders ideal.
“The Dems have won the popular vote in 6 out of the last 7 elections”
There is no ‘popular vote’ to win. And the only reason they’re winning that imaginary vote is because of the 50 million illegal aliens in country.
One commenter on the NYT site gets it, and it being piled on by a bunch of ignorant, historically challenged idiots.
No I am not saying it needs to be replaced. What I am saying is the advocates of abolishing the college need to state what they want to replace it with. Would the popular vote be a first past the post system so a winning candidate could conceivably have say under 40% of the vote or a run off system.
I don’t even know why they publish the “popular vote” totals since that is completely irrelevant to the process, other than as a rallying point to gin up viciousness.
Oh, and one more thing...
The NYT and its media friends are the greatest threat to our Constitutional Republic.
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