I need to state at the outset that I am registered as an Independent. If you are a member of the Republican party and accept everything they say as gospel, stop right here. Go no farther. They are opposed to abandoning the Electoral College and replacing it with a Popular vote or anything else. That does not mean I am a Democrat. Read the last paragraph on this post and you will understand where I am I don't allow anybody to coerce me to suspend my highly tuned mind with three college degrees (one of them is in Mathematics) to let them do my thinking for me. I advise you the reader to do the same thing. My advice to you is to: Think as deeply and analytically as possibly for yourself. Invariably you are bound to have opinions on some things that make it almost impossible for you to be in complete and total agreement with any political party on everything they hold near and dear to their hearts. I mean really, are all people declaring themselves as Republican as racist as Donny Trump and his pals?
This blog is going to serve two purposes. First, people need to understand why the United States of America has the Electoral College system to elect the President Of The United States (POTUS). After all the Federalist Papers which were arguments in favor of adopting the Constitution and the Anti-Federalist Papers which were arguing for keeping the Articles of Confederation don't even discuss the situation. They did worry about cabals and both discussed that briefly.
Since 2016 we have a situation which is fairly close to being a cabal. In my opinion, just an opintion, we have a cabal of people who are racist. Thus, what ever the founding fathers did, their Electoral College does not protect you and I from what they feared most would happen - a cabal.
In my next two posts I will show why the Electoral College was created using the Constitution itself and the politics of the time, some of which no longer exist. There will be others because I am making an argument to abolish the Electoral College system and replace it with a popular vote. Please realize that there are positives and negatives with both systems.
I know that some people are going to ask, which are you, a Republican or a Democrat? The short simple sweet answer is neither. I was watching a TV program once and at the time had no proclivity for either of those parties. Who was speaking on that TV program? A Jew that somehow made it through the Nazi Holocaust of World War II Germany. He said: "We cannot all be leaders. But we should not be followers either. Think for yourself." I am registered as an Independent. I am doing my own thinking on this, not parroting some political party's views. I welcome the Democrats support on this issue and oppose the Republican's stance. But even if the Democrats dropped their support for abolishing the Electoral College it will not change my opinion one bit. I will say a little bit more on this issue at a later time. But I am constant on this issue - The Electoral College system needs to eventually be replaced by a popular vote. It would raise voter turnout for elections and purify both of the two major political parties. That does not mean that it is an all win situation though. There are bad things about a Popular Vote for the top Executive positions that I already know they exist. There are bound to be more problems than I don't know about yet.
