Posted on 11/19/2020 12:53:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Abolishing the Electoral College would be a disaster for freedom and the constitutional imperative to prevent the concentration and abuse of power.
If former Vice President Joe Biden prevails in the 2020 election by scoring a victory in both the electoral and popular vote tallies, it will not curtail the clamoring nor the movement to send the Electoral College to a crematorium. The Washington Post editorial board, for example, recently renewed its call to abolish it.
Abolishing the Electoral College would be a disaster for freedom and the constitutional imperative to prevent the concentration and abuse of power. It would also likely open the door to greater election-result paralysis, as well as more voter fraud by big state and city machine politics.
The founders designed the Electoral College to moderate the influence of large states and big cities over small states and rural districts. Rhode Island, for example, with three electoral votes would hardly matter if the presidency were decided strictly by a national popular vote.
Presidential candidates could and would ignore states like Rhode Island and focus on states and districts with large population centers, offering more bang for effort and dollars. Small-state electoral votes have often affected the national outcome. Eliminate the Electoral College, and the voice of voters in small states all but disappears in the presidential election.
Equally important, a direct popular vote would further erode the power of the states in maintaining the intended constitutional balance between the national and state governments. The dispersion of power between the states, especially in relation to the federal government, is among the greatest protections against a concentrated national tyranny.
The states form the lifeblood of freedom and democracy. Fifty states, engaged in a hothouse of democratic experimentation and exploration for creative political solutions, has benefitted America throughout her history. Ending slavery, impossible at the founding on a national basis, began as a state movement. Likewise, states pioneered reforms and strengthened rights in a multitude of areas including civil liberties, voting, religious freedom, property rights, equality of opportunity, and many others.
America can currently tolerate a socialism-friendly Vermont right alongside a no-income-tax polity such as New Hampshire because the U.S. system does not promote nor demand cookie-cutter states. Abolishing the Electoral College threatens the voices, survivability, and creative freedom of all states.
All Americans benefit from a greater diversity of thought, action, and opportunities. If you don’t like the politics, economics, and cultural atmosphere of one state, you can move to another. The Electoral College protects that diversity and ensures that all voters matter, not just those who reside in urban areas or states.
The Electoral College also stands against the concentration of power and the potential for voter abuse. Witness where potential voter fraud has emerged in the current election. Fortunately, the potential litigation is only concentrated in a few states and big cities with possible voting irregularities. Most of the 2020 results across the country are complete. Abolish the Electoral College, and America could face strangulating litigation in every state in the Union, as victory would ride solely on the national vote.
We’d all like clean, quick, and decisive election results. Yet patience should be in greater demand. Getting elections as close to correct as possible is essential to democracy. It’s also important that the election system minimize the potential for corruption, demagoguery, and especially a concentration of power that invites tyranny.
The Electoral College preserves the constitutional checks and balances to power that the founders in their wisdom intended. Every four years, and across time, the college provides a valuable countrywide, state-by-state snapshot of the trends and diversity in political thought. Much of this rich checkerboard of American politics would be lost in presidential elections based purely on a popular vote.
Whatever the outcome of the 2020 presidential election or future contests, the Electoral College provides a potential challenge to either party claiming a clear mandate by a myopic focus on the national popular vote. The short-sighted ignorance represented by the movement to abolish or circumvent the Electoral College and constitutional limits will not enhance voter rights, but it will open the door to greater abuse, fraud, and tyranny of the majority.
We have to keep the Electoral College - it forces the Democrats to have to steal at least five or six swing states in a national election. We can’t let those guys get lazy!
To keep several of the most populated states/cities from determining who will be president; like five wolves verses three sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
The electoral college is to protect fly over country from being ruled over by the large population centers. Founding Fathers saw this coming.
A popular vote would mean CA, TX, FL, NY, and maybe IL basically call the shots and the other 45 states bow in submission. No smaller State is ever going to give up their EC vote.
For non-conservatives, this article requires very careful reading.
But as a conservative, I'd file this article under the category, "Duh."
And the perfect case study for it is: The Democrat Party Cabal's massive election fraud in 2020.
Therefore, I give belated Congratulations to our Founding Fathers!
Ask Biden/Harris about the Electoral College. Can’t really ask them any serious question.
The founding fathers were very smart. They knew exactly what they were doing.
The founding fathers were well educated but also, I believe that the hand of God was involved.
From all the news I have read there appears to be enough evidence or proof of voter fraud. The question I have is, will this evidence be sufficient to hold up in court, perhaps the supreme court. Another version I cam across is as is listed below. Perhaps one or the other member of FR may be knowledgably enough to shed some light on it.
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL LAW
ARE CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS ABOUT
ELECTION FRAUD AS ARE THOSE PRECEDENTS
SET BY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
State of the Nation
When wholesale fraud and corruption and criminality are employed to steal the quadrennial POTUS election by one of the two major party candidates, the victor automatically becomes the other presidential nominee with the greatest number of electoral votes.
In the case of the 2020 POTUS election, the Democrat ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has been cited for carrying out the greatest election cycle crime wave via fraud and theft in U.S. history. Hence, the prematurely and illegitimately declared Biden victory is now null and void under the law.
Basically, does anyone think that with the existing available proof the supreme court will get involved?
I don’t know if you are realizing that you are showing your ignorance. Probably not
It’s what makes us “United States”
This is an over complicated explanation. The President of the United States is elected by the United States - it’s in the very name. The nation is made up of separate states joined together in a Union - it’s in the very name.
The American republic is a federation of 50 distinct sovereign entities.
If that is to change, then the Union should be dissolved.
Schoolhouse Rock explained it to me as a kid... https://youtu.be/oyIFqf3XH24
” The nation is made up of separate states joined together in a Union - it’s in the very name.”
Exactly. To be more exact, in the future, all official government press releases, as well as the common language of conservatives, should forever return to the phrase, “THESE UNITED STATES,” instead of “THE UNITED STATES.”
One of the casualties of the outcome of the CIVIL WAR. We are truly not a single entity, but instead, A UNION. We can only be said to be UNUM in the sense of the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM.
While that was an effect, a part of the compromise, the first purpose of the Electoral College was to elect men of the caliber of George Washington and not that of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden. That's exactly what we did in 2016 and 2020.
articlevblog.com/2016/07/donald-trump-the-echo-of-our-framers-uncorrupted-president/
<>The dispersion of power between the states, especially in relation to the federal government, is among the greatest protections against a concentrated national tyranny.<>
Uh, the 17th Amendment destroyed the day-to-day dispersion of power.
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