THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SOLIDIFIES A FREE, JUST AND STABLE REPUBLIC

 THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SOLIDIFIES A FREE, JUST AND STABLE REPUBLIC

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

“Those who vote decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything.”

Josef Stalin

 

The reaction of the democrats to Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court has been outrageous. They suggested packing the court, altering the constitution and eliminating the electoral college. The replacing of the electoral college with a popular vote will drastically change our Constitutional Republic. 

 

The NPV, National Popular Vote movement sounds reasonable on the surface but will cause more significant problems than it solves. For sure if we do away with the Electoral College, we will have a more “democratic” process. Currently we have a high functioning republic, which keeps our country a free, just and stable one. There is no rational reason to alter our constitutional republic to move towards a more difficult process to monitor and one that divides rather than unites. We are witnessing the chaos of the 2020 Presidential Election not following orderly and restrictive methods of recording and counting only legitimate votes.

 

Our wise founders studied history in creating a republic not a whimsical democracy that would develop into mob fascism. The Electoral College is only one of many checks and balances that has created the longest and most stable constitutional republic in world history. The Electoral College representatives are able to identify and raise issues to candidates that help clarify some of their positions.  

 

These early patriots knew past democratic experiments ended in chaos and self-destruction. They comprehended that the highly educated adults in Athens, which were 15% of the population, would determine all the laws. Unsurprisingly these elites chose their selfish interests over the common good. Another democratic breakdown, the French Revolution, was personally witnessed by some of the signers of our constitution, which further demonstrated and confirmed that they chose correctly the republic form of government. 

 

Currently the progressive elites want to return to a historically failed democratic process of a popular vote for all citizens. The democrat elites want even non-citizens to vote in the presidential elections. They want to institute this by eliminating the Electoral College and replacing it with the popular vote. This unweighted and indiscriminate vote will disenfranchise “fly over states” leaving the east and west coasts to choose the president. If this passed, it would make sense for politicians to concentrate on densely populated city zones while disregarding important issues of rural areas and small towns. This would mean the majority of the states would be immaterial having no skin in the game, disenfranchising them and leaving them isolated and alienated. 

 

This excluding approach would conserve resources for candidates but will provide less impetus for coalition building. Every vote, including non-citizens would be equal regardless of their depth of knowledge of the issues. The national popular vote will open up the floodgates for more redistributing to less productive people in order to attract new voters to the progressive policies. The smoother and more charismatic the politician, the more the citizens will overlook the issues to select the candidate on looks and emotion. Most troubling is the obvious reality that the enormity of the vote and the lack of a checks and balance system will encourage fraud. 

 

The winner of an NPV election would be the best con-person to the largest audience. The well-informed Electoral College representatives will become relics. There will be less thoughtful debate to discuss the issues raised in order to change the minds of the electoral representatives. 

 

In fifty-one separate electoral elections there is great opportunity to isolate and correct any voter corruption.  Intelligent and viable options will be advanced and discussed to assist working together as a united nation. It makes it more difficult for any party to hijack an election.

 

The USA’s population is growing not only in number but in diversity. More than ever our citizens need to understand that the present electoral system gives them the ability to stand with other groups who want to see similar legislation passed.  The process brings different groups into positions of assimilating into our country to become Americans. 

 

The Electoral College has worked for several centuries to be accepted as the will of the people. Even when the popular vote was greater than the victory in the Electoral College the vast part of the nation has accepted the outcome. The intricacies of this cleverly designed founding father’s check and balance on the inevitable swings of a pure democratic vote has been an incredible success. 

 

When something works as well as this, the changing of it would be a sign of insanity. The acceptance of the Electoral College process has kept this great nation stable and free. 

 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.