Timothy Birdnow

Here they go again!

Senate Democrats introduce bill to end the Electoral College

Apparently they do not understand this is a Constitutional issue and can only be undone with a Constitutional amendment; Congress cannot legislate it.

No doubt this is just grandstanding,but it shows how undemocratic the "Democratic Party" really is.

The Founding Fathers set it up this way to maintain Federalism; the small colonies would never have joined the union had they been subject to a system that made them of no relevance in the election of the presidents. So the EC system was put in place. It was a good balance between empowering the small states but not giving them special powers.

Now,of course, Democrats own all the big cities and thus own whole states (like Illinois, which would be a purple state were it not for the behemoth of Chicago) and through them can simply manufacture votes as needed. If we had such a system Democrats would never, ever lose elections. They know that which is why they keep pushing for it.

Direct popular vote would give us one party rule. It is exactly what was meant by Ben Franklin when he said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"; Neither he nor any of the Founders wanted pure Democracy. They chose a republican form of government because it restricted the passions and appetites of the voters, tempering them with the "saucer" of representational government. There were many other examples of that; the indirect election of the Senate as well as the President, for instance (Senators were appointed by their state governments until the 17th Amendment) as well as the appointment of the Supreme Court by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (Do notice it did not fall to the whole Congress as the House was seen as too volatile, being directly elected.) Also, voting was originally restricted to white male landholders only - no minorities, no women, no wage-earners. You had to have a stake in society, they believed, and the intelligence and education to make informed choices.

America has become increasingly intrusive into the affairs of its citizenry in an asymptotic relationship with the rise of participatory democracy here. That should come as no surprise. As is attributed to Alexander Fraser Tyler, Lord Woodhouselee:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."

This echoed Aristotle, who warned that democracy inevitably degenerated into a "tyranny of special interests" or Plato who warned democracy was the final stage before a dictatorship.

Why? Because justice dies, property rights die, all restraints on government power and on corruption die as it becomes possible to reach into the pockets of your neighbors. Then it's every man for himself.

Promoting "democracy" in America is un-American and always has been. It was the Progressives who pushed for it because they saw a handy tool to creating the strongly interventionist government they wanted and saw that democracy would allow them to buy votes to build the new world order system they dreamed of creating.

And so the Democrats are again pushing this, and sadly many, if not most, people will accept the flawed arguments they make about "fairness" when it is grossly unfair and is a fundamental shift in the way our nation is supposed to work, a nation based on federalism, where the states are the primary political authority.

If we have a popular vote, by the way, we should have those votes counted by a federal bureaucracy, right? A UNIONIZED bureaucracy at that!

Complaints about cheating in the count in some places will lead to the establishment of a federal agency to count the vote, mark my words. And once the wolves have complete control of the sheep fold they will dine at their leisure.

Fortunately this isn't going to pass, and if it does it will be struck down by SCOTUS. Or so we would hope (you can never tell with those jokers).

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 10:13 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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