{"id":8065,"date":"2018-11-07T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:58:04","slug":"anti-trump-riots-eliminate-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/anti-trump-riots-eliminate-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-trump Riots are a Smoke Screen, The Real Goal \u2013 Eliminate The Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Published with Permission of AmericanPolicy.org \u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Many seem bewildered by the anti-Trump riots and demonstrations that have covered the nation since the 2016 election. And many keep trying to find a reasonable response. Give it up. You can\u2019t reason with them with words.<\/p>\n

Here is my take. They know full well that they aren\u2019t going to overturn the election. These privately funded forces are being used to create pressure to destroy the Electoral College so they won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

For clues on who is behind this effort one only has to watch to see which member of Congress would propose such action. The answer, of course, was 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.<\/p>\n

The danger is real and gaining ground. But it didn\u2019t start with the 2016 election result. A campaign to eliminate the Electoral College and \u201clet the people elect the president,\u201d has been gaining steam for several years. A group called \u201cNational Popular Vote Interstate Compact,\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalpopularvote.com\/<\/a>\u00a0started 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, the District of Columbia and Connecticut. These states control 172 electoral votes. They only need states representing 98 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.<\/p>\n

When a state passes legislation to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, it pledges that all of that state\u2019s 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\u2019s bill could take effect.<\/p>\n

As usual, it\u2019s easy to get people to join this cause \u2013 yet another sound bite based on emotion rather than knowledge or logic. \u201cLet the people decide.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the American way.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s Democracy at work.\u201d Yep, that\u2019s why America was never set up as a democracy. Here\u2019s another sound bite for you \u2013 \u201cDemocracy is a lynch mob.\u201d Here\u2019s another one \u2013 \u201cDemocracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.\u201d Majority rule violates the rights of minorities. It\u2019s not a good thing.\u00a0 Get the picture?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s just what the founders intended, 538 independent thinkers, bound to no one. There is reason and logic behind the idea.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cexperts\u201d came up with the idea that Senators should be elected by the people \u2013 \u201cIt\u2019s only fair,\u201d went the mantra! The result is an imperial Senate that answers to no one but their own elite club members. That\u2019s what happens when you mess with the real genius of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

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, a 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

To understand the Electoral College one must realize that the Founders considered the states as the dominant 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s a great sound bite- but the results will not give \u201cthe people\u201d the \u201cfair\u201d result they desire.<\/p>\n

Such a move will eliminate the power of individual states in favor of elections decided by the population of large, politically liberal cities. I\u2019ve actually heard it said by residents of California, San Francisco, in particular, \u201cwhy do we even let people in Ohio and Iowa vote?\u201d Such elitism is behind the \u201cNational Popular Vote\u201d movement which apparently believes that only the East and West Coasts count. The rest is just flyover country.<\/p>\n

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 \u2018persuaded\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

The \u201cfeel good\u201d 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 megacities. 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.<\/p>\n

In such a planned agenda for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century, individuals living in the majority of the nation\u2019s territory will quickly learn how little their \u201cpopular vote\u201d counts if the Electoral College is abandoned by the \u201cNational Popular Vote\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Northeastern sector, along with the area around Los Angeles. If these sections of the nation were to control the election of our nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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. In 2016 Senator Boxer answered the call with legislation to end the Electoral College. Such demands to end it masquerade as the answer to the people\u2019s unrest. If achieved the end, the result will have nothing to do with Donald Trump. He is just the convenient excuse.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Published with Permission of AmericanPolicy.org \u2014 Many seem bewildered by the anti-Trump riots and demonstrations that have covered the nation since the 2016 election. And many keep trying to find a reasonable response. Give it up. You can\u2019t reason with them with words. Here is my take. They know full well that they aren\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":8068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[542,237,257],"class_list":["post-8065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-antifa","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17123,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions\/17123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}