THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MUST BE DESTROYED!

 

In the history of our country no one individual has done more damage to America, the American people, American values, and American democracy than Donald J Trump – the 45^th President of the United States.

Trump has proven time and again by his words and deeds that he is a totally worthless piece of garbage, completely devoid of intelligence and humanity, who does not possess a single redeeming positive quality or value, and who has not performed a single totally unselfish positive act in his entire adult life.  He was the most ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and unqualified President in US history, with absolutely no knowledge or understanding of the responsibilities and limitations of the office of President.

Trump was never the choice of the American people for President.  Trump lost the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton by 2,868,686 (2.9 Million) votes.  Clinton received 48.18% of the popular vote and Trump received 46.09%.  Looking at the total vote for President in 2016, and the votes for all candidates, 10.7 Million more Americans voted against Trump than voted for Trump.  Despite losing the election Trump was placed in office by the Electoral College.   

The Electoral College is an anti-democratic process that abandons the concept of “one man (or woman), one vote” and the will of the people and gives the votes of some Americans more weight and importance than the votes of others.

One of the reasons for the creation of the Electoral College, as explained in “Why the Electoral College” by Marc Schulman at HISTORY CENTRAL by Marc Schulman, is –

“The founding fathers were afraid of direct election to the Presidency. They feared a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power.”

Schulman tells us –

“Hamilton and the other founders believed that the electors would be able to ensure that only a qualified person becomes President. They thought that with the Electoral College no one would be able to manipulate the citizenry. It would act as a check on an electorate that might be duped. Hamilton and the other founders did not trust the population to make the right choice. The founders also believed that the Electoral College had the advantage of being a group that met only once and thus could not be manipulated over time by foreign governments or others.”

So, the Electoral College was created to ensure an unqualified candidate, like Trump, or, also like Trump, a demagogue – a person, “who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument” – would never become President, to prevent foreign interference in the election of President, and to prevent poor administration of government.  It clearly failed in 2016.

It is important that the Electoral College be abolished – and the President of the United States become elected by the popular vote – so that a dangerous, ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and unqualified malignant narcissist like Trump will never again be put in the White House against the will of the people.