Posted on 04/02/2019 6:01:07 AM PDT by C19fan
Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke joined a growing list of 2020 Democrats by endorsing the abolition of the Electoral College on Monday.
O'Rourke, who previously said there was "a lot of wisdom" behind eliminating the Electoral College, endorsed the idea outright while addressing the annual We the People Membership Summit in Washington, D.C.
"Let's abolish the Electoral College," O'Rourke told the audience in response to question about gerrymandering and the popular vote. The event was hosted by organized labor and prominent liberal groups like the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and the Center for Popular Democracy Action, a dark money group funded in part by George Soros.
O'Rourke justified his call for eliminating the Electoral College by comparing the institution to slavery.
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Notice how the Republican Party has been vehemently opposed to this idea. They should be commended for standing up to this mob rule proposal that will finally kill the republic. /SARC
It is likely to turn out to be another road to serfdom!
The city-dwellers are salivating at the prospect...
Just sayin'.
THAT clears the path to ‘winning-by-cheating’ and Liberals cannot win without cheating.
Case closed
Any politician that even so much as suggests eliminating the Electoral College should be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
To eliminate the Electoral College would be to change our Constitutional Republic to a Mobocracy.
This guy is a dumbass in a sea of dumbasses, that is why we have an electoral college.
Proof positive that long complex IQ tests are unnecessary.
Just ask what the purpose of the Electoral College is.
EVERY Democrat will fail.
But, of course, we already know their intelligence.
Agree and Amen.
I think these pols know that things like this will never happen and that’s why they’re not afraid to say “I’m for it”. It makes them seemingly come down on the popular side of an issue they think their base wants to hear but it would be incredibly difficult to pull off.
It’s not dumbness. It’s red meat for his base.
Eliminate the states too, and change the name of the country to the State of America.
Somehow to me the words “wisdom” and “ Beto” in the same sentence just don’t work.
Well, Obama wasn't supposed to happen either. Stay vigilante!
The left is consistently opposed to American liberty. I’ve had liberal historians support ‘the loyalists’ (colonists who were against the American Revolution), and basically make a case in favor of the British retaining control. You can’t argue with that kind of mentality.
We are a union of 50 countries with an overarching “master constitution and a limited government authority that exists to perform those tasks outside the abilities of the individual member countries. The 50 countries each cast their own vote for the leader of this overarching agency (the FedGov). The weight of their vote is determined by the number of representatives they have in congress, which is partly determined by the size of their population.
This will, for all intents and purposes, destroy what little sovereignty the 50 countries have left. We will become, in essence, a single country in pretty much every way imaginable, with the states becoming the equivalent of counties.
This reminds me of King County, WA. It includes Seattle, suburbs and a significantly large rural area. Since the whole county elects the members of the King county council, and the lion’s share of the voters are in Seattle. So - the rural areas have ZERO representation. Their votes do not matter. This is why They have stupid laws like - if you have over five acres, you need a permit to clear blackberries. Stuff like that. The city residents rule the rural residents with an iron fist.
The calls to abolish the electoral college come from two points of view: 1) ignorance; 2) desire to control other people.
Violating ones oath of office should be grounds for censure at a minimum.
Let’s just dismantle the Republic
The Hilldabeast mob lost, so we must change the rules! Ain’t got no sluggers on your team... we MUST then abolish home runs, or “democracy fails”!
If the DemWits were to lose the popular vote in 2020, then must we also abolish it? Hell... just abolish elections totally... anyone who pays attention knows that’s the ultimate goal. It’s not socialism they seek... it’s neo-feudalism... master and serf, ruled from their “castle keep”, behind walls and guns that DO WORK! #Resist! (to borrow a word). #Molon labe
I’m posting one of the most repeated observations of Franklin’s:
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the vote.
Forever true.
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