Electoral College: We Are Not a Fucking Democracy
Dear bitching Democrats,
You can want our government to change in structure to a government you want to see, but you can not, currently, and for all our history, walk around in shock over the electoral college vs the popular vote.
We are, by careful and intentional design, not a fucking democracy!
We are a Representative Republic.
If the public school system did it's job, everyone would know this.
There wouldn't be a need to put little links that say "electoral college explained" on all the election day tally update pages.
When you vote, in an American presidential election, you are not voting for the president! You are voting for an electorate to vote for the president. You have one vote and it counts, but the sheer ignorance in this country over what kind of government structure we live under is staggering. Your one vote counts toward the electorate not the president!
This measure was put in place after careful deliberation by our founding fathers who wanted to ensure that we were not a democracy.
The founding fathers principally understood that the political philosophy of "democracy" resulted in mob rule by a majority. We are a country of 50 small countries. We are a State (as in: government) of 50 small States. When they designed their federal (over arching) government, they had to wrestle with how the, then 13 colonies, now 50 States, were going to remain independent, unique and, yet, united for each other's overall good on one land mass.
And, this, because they broke free from a government rule in which they had no voice and that which was on the other side of the world, completely unable to know and understand, by experience, not just the benefits, but the trials of living in the new world. They broke free from a government that extracted from them all the good to it's own advantage, didn't deal adequately with the bad with which they needed help, and routinely ignored their petitions for representation and fairness.
When constructing this new government, they understood that, what was important to New Yorkers wouldn't necessarily be important to Georgians, and vice versa. But, New York, having a greater population, without a counter balance, could impose New York values and desires on Georgia, creating a situation where New Yorkers could decide they know what's best for Georgians devoid of the experience of living in Georgia.
We are 50 states with different geographies, different ecologies, different economies, different cultures with different moral values because of where different cultures from, initially, Europe settled. 50 unique and independent States. New Yorkers don't get to decide what's best for Georgians; Texan's don't get to decide what's best for Vermonters; Floridians don't get to decide what's best for Hawaiians; and Californians don't get to decide what's best for Mainers just because they're big states with highly populated cities.
The Maine experience is vastly different from California's, California doesn't get to decide which way Maine must go just because California has more people.
The electoral college is the epitome of fair!
It ensures, along with our intentionally designed representative legislative branch, that this country can't stack it's East and West costs with elite intellectuals who could demand the middle country State's resources, neglect their needs, and leave them voiceless! It ensure that the less populated States don't become the bitch of the more populated ones.
To put it in contemporary imagery: It ensures that Kansas doesn't become district 12 to New York's district 1. Supplying all it's back breaking resources, railroaded into voiceless poverty, while New Yorkers live high on the hog in the luxury of sitting around patting themselves on the back for being "great thinkers".
The presidential candidates have to care about New Hampshire, Montana, New Mexico, and Alabama. Because, New York, Florida, Texas, and California can't run the country just because there are more people there.
And, less you take a turn into racial majority vs racial minority: It also ensures that people living in each state get to have a voice regardless of race or gender. Take, for instance, the Latino vote in Florida! In what isn't surprising to anyone who understands why they're here in America, but was surprising to the indentitarians, Floridian Latinos voted for Trump because they don't want to live in a socialist country. Trump, regardless of the accusation that he's racist, more closely represents the economic ideology they want vs the economic direction of the democratic party over which they'd fled their own countries.
Their racial minority voices were instrumental in the outcome of a majority population state. But, that State, alone couldn't run the country even if the majority, popular vote resided in it. Because Floridian voices are important and so are Utahan's ...
Because of the electoral college.
And, if you were in a minority population State, you'd want your voice heard too.
While I observe the bitching over the electoral college not resulting in a "popular vote" mob rule, by design and nothing new to our collective, historic experience, I'm painfully aware of the fact that this abusive, exploitive two party control over our governmental structure leaves many of us with no ideological representation at all. I have no sympathy for you, democrats. At least you have a chance at a government that represents your ideological view of how the country should be run. I have next to none. My electoral vote got less than two percent of my State's vote. And only 5.7% of the electoral votes nationally.
So, stop your sore losing and your bitching about the structure of government you have always lived under as if it's a shock that it is what it is.
Respectfully Signed,
A completely unrepresented American