Posted on 04/26/2024 5:31:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
Electoral College, 2024. Source: Chessrat, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
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While Americans brace for another contentious presidential election, the Democrats have a better idea: Subvert the Constitution in the name of “democracy.” Once again, the party of the left shows why it’s losing Americans’ trust.
Quietly but steadily, the Democratic Party has been advancing its latest bold idea to create a uni-party state: A “National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.”
In case you missed it, the Associated Press reported last week that “Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote,” the 17th state to do so.
As the AP noted, “Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president, regardless of how individual states voted in an election.”
The goal of this “movement” — it’s really a plot — is to get enough states to join to get to the magic number of 270 electoral votes, the amount needed to win the Electoral College. With Maine, the group now claims 209 electoral votes, a mere 61 away from their goal.
What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, except it’s an out-and-out attempt at subverting the protections placed in the Constitution to keep from having a national popularity contest for the presidency. This is what Democrats call “democracy.” In fact, it’s a recipe for mob rule.
Our founders, who were extraordinarily wise and deeply steeped in both political history and philosophy, understood very well: Nations that start as law-respecting republics (America, in case you didn’t know, is a republic, a representative democracy, not a pure democracy) and employ “majority rules” quickly devolve into dictatorships.
That was the whole reason for the Electoral College, which plays a vital role in determining our president by giving states a role in the election of a president. The media understand this, as a recent ABC News headline shows: “State law takes U.S. a step closer to popular vote deciding presidential elections”.
A “popular vote”? Only to the extent the Democrats can rig it, with questionable mail-in ballots, dead people voting, live people voting more than once, and millions of government tax dollars handed out to left-leaning groups that focus almost exclusively on “getting out the vote” for Democrats.
Giving states guaranteed clout in presidential elections is the surest way to keep our nation intact. Should this be dissolved, and we move to a pure popular vote, states might think about seceding rather than being neutered.
Do we want another Civil War?
And what kind of candidate wins like that anyway, in an election in which his or her party can ignore half of the country’s voters? A demagogue.
Because in such a system, states no longer matter, but Washington, D.C., will. Our current system makes even small states important to election outcomes. They can’t be ignored. Which means politicians must pay attention.
“Under the compact, campaigns will be devoted to driving maximum partisan turnout in the states where each party dominates – California, Texas, and so on. Who cares about South Dakota when there are millions of votes to be had in Florida?” John Hinderaker of the popular Power Line blog correctly notes. “The interstate compact would turn our republic into a country that essentially is governed by plebiscite.”
Exactly.
It bears repeating, because so few understand: Our republic elects its officials democratically, but also recognizes the sovereignty of each state and the sanctity of individual rights enshrined in the Constitution. We are not a “democracy.” And, no, the “majority” doesn’t rule. The Constitution does, and it’s hard to change it, by design.
The Electoral College was created as a buffer between the people and their government, specifically to prevent mob rule, which is what pure “democracy” ultimately becomes. The Constitution protects the rights of all, not just the mob that rules.
There’s an old joke, funny mostly because it’s so true: “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” If you’re not in the majority, you’re the sheep, and you are eaten.
Democrats feel a sense of urgency. One more term for the gerontocrat and his handlers (nearly all former Obama and Clinton retreads) now in the White House, and America’s far-left turn will be complete.
Remember, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 in the Electoral College (304 Trump, 221 Clinton), but lost in the popular vote (46.1% Trump, 48.2% Clinton). He nearly did the same again running against Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump is the only person standing between the Democrats and the radical changes in America they seek: Forming an unrecognizably woke, equity-obsessed, and race-based society, with corporations and businesses tightly controlled by inept Washington bureaucrats.
Where does it all end? Ask anyone who ever lived in a “socialist” country with rigged national elections. It’s an invitation for voter fraud on a national scale, and power without end for an elite few in the name of “our democracy.”
With six of the seven major swing states now favoring Trump in the polls, the compact’s authors clearly hope to keep Trump from winning again. They likely won’t reach their goal this year, but might for 2028.
But there is some hope: The scheme is likely unconstitutional. As the Princeton Legal Journal recently argued, “This (compact) constitutes a violation of the Compact Clause, which states that ‘No State shall, without the Consent of Congress … enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.'”
Even the Harvard Law Review, hardly a bastion of conservatism, argues against the legality of the compact.
So, more than likely, any deal that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution will be declared null and void by the Supreme Court.
That said, don’t think for a minute that mere unconstitutionality will stop the Democrats. If you’re in a state that has yet to join the other 17 in this deceptive compact, you should make it clear to your elected officials that you strongly object to it.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
Too late. 2016 was the last fair election this country will ever see. They are never going to let that accidentality happen again. Presidents will be chosen and appointed by order of the Global Council from now on.
The depths of evil know no bounds.
The left KNOWS it cannot win without cheating and will stop at nothing to do so.
It seems that Divine Intervention is the only thing left that will save this country and what with the way America has turned its back on God and embraced immorality, abortion, lawlessness, and injustice, it doesn’t seem like God has a reason to spare us.
As a just God, He MUST deal with it and from the situation we’re in, it looks too much like ancient Israel just before they went into the Babylonian captivity.
ping
From the article:
“While Americans brace for another contentious presidential election, the Democrats have a better idea: Subvert the Constitution in the name of “democracy.” Once again, the party of the left shows why it’s losing Americans’ trust.”
Bad premise. The party that the author says is losing America’s trust owns the presidency, the senate, and effectively controls the house. The country seems to be more concerned about foreign wars and preserving the right to kill their babies.
If 100 million Americans vote for Donald J. Trump, the LIEberl/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist/Communist Democrats will lose!
It is up to us to get our FRiends, relatives, neighbors and total strangers to understand how critical it is to our country and the World that 45 becomes 47!
Legitimately and honestly!
2016 wasn’t really fair. Our pink nazi rulers just got careless, over confident and they made the mistake of believing their own lies.
The NPV will be abandoned as soon as a Republican wins the popular vote and loses the EV under the old rules.
While the Democrats are working on improving and inventing new ways to steal elections the Republicans are spending their time fighting off the hissy fitters that want to change House Speakers every six months.
When the Dems stole the election in 1960 it was electorally close and they got away with it. The election of 2012 was also stolen and they tried to steal 2016 but underestimated Trumps popularity. From now on they will steal any close election.
“The left KNOWS it cannot win without cheating and will stop at nothing to do so.”
While DemocRATS stop at nothing to cheat, Republicans DO nothing to stop cheating.
"Notoriously unreliable information!"
Good thing they are looking out for your safety......................
The reason should be obvious...
In 1788, the ten small population states rejected any Union that would grant the three largest states - Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts - dictatorial control via Popular Votes.
The three largest states compromised and agreed to share power via Electoral Votes and the U.S. Senate.
Also, most Americans do not realize that EACH state gets just ONE vote in the House of Representatives if the Presidential Electoral Vote is tied.
Once again, Constitutional protection against the high population states.
The President is the executive officer of the federation of states. It's the states that elect the President to oversee the limited powers that the states delegated to the federal government.
A National Popular Vote, along with the 17th amendment, will kill the concept of sovereign states once and for all.
The whole National Popular Vote compact should be nullified on 14th amendment equal protection grounds. In compact states that voted with the so-called "national popular vote," those voters had their votes count. In compact states that voted against the national popular vote, those voters had their votes discarded.
There is no equal protection across all the states that their votes will be counted the same way.
-PJ
Eliminating the Electoral College role in Presidential Elections is the “kill shot” to the Republic. Considering that most of the US towns and many cities have come to resemble dirty, junky, Mexican towns.....I’m not sure it really matters.
US towns and many cities have come to resemble dirty, junky, 3rd world sh!thole towns.............................
Marxist Dems are doing all they can and spending money to do it. Dems must have given the Kennedy Clan millions of dollars to get their endorsement
“The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...
They already did. Massive and proven mailin corruption and the GOP did nothing. This is like the UK, Labor is communist and Conservative incompetent on doing even that.
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