The Anti-Trump Riots are a
smoke screen. The Real Goal – Eliminate the Electoral College, by Tom DeWeese
11/21/16
Many seem bewildered by the
anti-Trump riots and demonstrations. And many keep trying to find a reasonable response.
Give it up. You can’t reason with them with words.
Here is my take. They know
full well that they aren’t going to overturn the election. These privately
funded forces are being used to create pressure to destroy the Electoral
College so they won’t have to deal with it next election. This is how the Left
operates. Make a big deal over here to force the hidden agenda over there. The
plan is to make enough trouble that Congress will move to abolish the EC to get
some peace.
For clues on who is behind
this effort one only has to watch to see which member of Congress
proposes such action. The answer of course is California Senator Barbara Boxer.
It only took a week after the election for her to come to the rescue of the
broken and distraught Left.
Meanwhile, hidden forces are
now meeting with and brow beating members of the Electoral College to get them
to change their vote from the true winner of their state and vote out Trump.
The danger is real and
gaining ground. But it didn’t start with this election result. A campaign to
eliminate the Electoral College and “let the people elect the president,” has
been gaining steam for several years. A group called “National Popular Vote
Interstate
Compact,” http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/ started in 2006, has won commitments from eleven states to award
their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. These include,
Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington,
Massachusetts, California, New York, Hawaii and the District of Columbia. These
states control 165 electoral votes. They only need states representing 105 more
electoral votes to join and the Electoral College will be a thing of the past.
Meanwhile, such legislation is under consideration in Missouri, Oklahoma and
Arizona, to name a few.
When a state passes
legislation to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, it pledges
that all of that state’s electoral votes will be given to whichever
presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide. These bills will take
effect only when states with a majority of the electoral votes have passed
similar legislation. States with electoral votes totaling 270 of the 538
electoral votes would have to pass NPV bills before the compact kicks in and
any state’s bill could take effect.
As usual, it’s easy to get
people to join this cause – yet another sound bite based on emotion rather than
knowledge or logic. “Let the people decide.” “It’s the American way.” “It’s
Democracy at work.” Yep, that’s why America was never set up as a democracy.
Here’s another sound bite for you – “Democracy is a lynch mob.” Here’s another
one –
“Democracy is three wolves
and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.” Majority rule violates the rights
of minorities. It’s not a good thing. Get the picture?
The United States was
created by the individual sovereign states. They were already free and
independent governments on their own. As they came together to create a central
government they feared it would grow too strong and overpower the states,
making them subjugated to the central government. So, to prevent that, the
states created the Electoral College to make the election of the President a
STATE election.
Throughout history, certain
factions have challenged the legality of the Electoral College. Opponents point
out that our President is actually elected by 538 virtually unknown people who
are members of 51 small delegations in fifty States and the District of
Columbia. Moreover, in most states the electors are not even bound to vote for
the candidate that won the popular vote. In fact, many Constitutional scholars
believe that’s just what the founders intended, 538 independent thinkers, bound
to no one. There is reason and logic behind the idea.
The Founding Fathers,
particularly those from small States, were very concerned that they would be
smothered by the larger states. Under the representative republic (not a
democracy) established by the founders, the United States is made up of fifty
sovereign States. Under the Constitution, except for limited powers
specifically defined for the central government, power for the rule of law is
intended to reside in the States.
To deal with the problem,
the founders decided on a compromise that would establish two chambers for the
Congress; the House of Representatives, whose size would be dictated by the
population in each state and the Senate in which every state would get two
representatives, regardless of its size or population. You see, in the beginning,
the states appointed Senators to be their representatives in Congress. But,
like these so-called scholars of today who want to wreck the Electoral College,
previous “experts” came up with the idea that Senators should be elected by the
people – “It’s only fair,” went the mantra! The result is an imperial Senate
that answers to no one but their own elite club members. That’s what happens
when you mess with the real genius of the Constitution.
The same problem arose in
deciding how to select a President, the one nationally-elected official. Here
again there was the fear that election by popular vote would overwhelm the will
of smaller States. Again, compromise was reached to address the issue in a fair
and equitable manner in order to maintain the power of the states. Each state
was assigned a number of presidential electoral votes equal to its
representation in the House and the Senate. In each state, the electors would
vote for a President and Vice President. The candidate receiving the largest
number of electoral votes would be elected.
Under the plan, the
connection to the popular vote was the selection of state electors. The popular
vote was to be used to select individuals trusted by the people to select the
President. Each presidential candidate has a slate of electors committed to
them. As the people vote for a candidate, they are actually electing his/her
slate of electors. Again, the selection of electors goes directly to local
control of the process. Under the Constitution, even the smallest state was
assured at least three votes in the process. To provide a further check to
protect the smaller states, in the event no candidate won a majority of the
electoral vote, the names of the top five would go to the House of
Representatives, where each state delegation would cast one vote for one of the
candidates. In this process each state, again, is equal.
To understand the Electoral
College one must realize that the Founders considered the states as the
dominate power in the nation. Election of the office of President was a bit
like the selection of the Chairman of the Board, with the states serving as the
board of directors for the nation. The great mistake Electoral College
opponents make is to believe the President was supposed to be elected by the
people. It was never the plan.
There are fundamental and
often regional differences in how Americans view the role of government and the
leaders they elect to run it. Little wonder those who seek to strengthen the
power of the central government prefer that elections be decided by the popular
vote. It’s a great sound bite- but the results will not give “the people” the
“fair” result they desire.
Such a move will eliminate
the power of individual states in favor of elections decided by the population
of large, politically liberal cities. I’ve actually heard it said by residents
of California, San Francisco, in particular, “why do we even let people in Ohio
and Iowa vote?” Such elitism is behind the “National Popular Vote” movement
which apparently believes that only the East and West Coasts count. The rest is
just flyover country.
Keep these facts in mind as
we watch the enforcement of Sustainable Development policies that lead to Smart
Growth cities. The stated plans of such ideas are that most people will
eventually be ‘persuaded” to leave the rural areas and migrate to the cities.
In addition, we now are witnessing the invasion of illegal immigrants who
normally land in such communities and swell their size.
The “feel good” propaganda
of the National Popular Vote movement insists that a popular vote would not
change the face of the nation. However, by design or not, the fact is their
scheme plays right into the hands of the Sustainablists who openly seek top
down control through the establishment of mega cities. By forcing the massive
majority of citizens into such areas, a majority vote in just a few will drown
any other area in the nation.
In such a planned agenda for
the 21st Century, individuals living in the majority
of the nation’s territory will quickly learn how little their “popular vote”
counts if the Electoral College is abandoned by the “National Popular Vote”
scheme. Those smaller states (and therefore their votes) may have no impact on
the election of the President, just as our founders feared. Control by a few
over the many can only be defined as tyranny.
The abolishment of the
Electoral College would, in fact, establish an election tyranny giving control
of the government to the massive population centers of the nation’s
Northeastern sector, along with the area around Los Angeles. If these sections
of the nation were to control the election of our nation’s leaders, the voice
of the ranchers and farmers of the Mid and Far West would be lost, along with
the values and virtues of the South. It would also mean the end of the Tenth
Amendment and state sovereignty.
Not happy to even let the
states decide if they want to support the idea of the National Popular vote or
not, the hard Left has manufactured the unrest in the streets to pressure a
fast solution. Senator Boxer has answered the call with immediate legislation
to end the Electoral College. Her bill masquerades as the answer to the
people’s unrest. And the deal is done. Just like that. In the end, the result
will have nothing to do with Donald Trump. He is just the convenient excuse.
Allow that to happen now and
the great silent majority of middle America in this nation will never again
have a fair say in who is elected our president. And that is the true goal of
today’s unrest.
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