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Responding to Paul McNamara in NetworkWorld: Tear down the Electoral College
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Popular vote is mob rule. The Electoral College throws a roadblock in their path.
We have gotten into the mess we are in by ignoring the wisdom of some dead old white guys who were pretty smart. They revolted over 1% taxartion and we can’t even calculate the per cent we pay. We’d have a better chance of knowing where an electron is than the exact percentage we pay in taxes. Politicians do a GREAT job of hiding the true cost.
Before you continue the erosion of the Constitution, let’s consider that we are NOT a democracy. We are republic. The foundation of a republic is that minorities have rights! And, we are all minorities at one time or another.
I am immediately opposed to anyone changing the Constitutional process since we have a great track record of screwing things up. Let’s just review some of the more bone-headed ones: Sixteenth Ammendment gave us an income tax. Ninteenth Ammendment women’s vote gave us the Prohibition Ammendment which gave us organized crime. Twenty Second Ammendment that gives us lame duck Presidents.
And we have enough screwballs running around changing stuff even without changing the Constitution. Our money is valueless; backed only by the full faith and credit of something called the “Federal Reserve Bank” — a club of bankers. Our national debt is a joke. Education is a government run dumbing down of our people. Illegals are invading our country. The “war on drugs” is filling our prisons, infringing on our liberty, and defying human nature. Government in healthcare is killing us while bankrupting us. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.
AND, government at all levels is running amok.
Here you are advocating changing to be MORE democratic?
Please stick to technology. Social engineering is best left to the philosophers and cynics. At least they understand what a dangerous thing a human being is. And when that life form gangs up into “government”, it is like a plague of locust.
Bear in mind that only the government is capable of committing a genocide. It’s a powerful force that needs to be constrained, restricted, and severly limited.
The electoral college is one way to do just that.
IMHO!
Reinke Faces Life 
The dead old white guys’ electoral college does give us a benefit over count noses. It might be an unintended consequence. But maybe not. They were pretty smart. Counting noses may not be accurate. We saw Florida recounts where the ballots were counted three times and three different tallys came out. We saw the “recount til I get the answer I want to hear” strategy. And the Kennedy Nixon election was decided in the precients of Chicago and the stuffings in LBJ’s part of Texas. Do we really want elections where the numbers have to add up? I think there is merit to a system that produces a definitive winner with a trail of authenticity. Those dead old white slave owners pretending to be Christian were pretty smart.
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