In Liberal World, everything that thwarts Democrats is A Threat To Democracy. Anything other than one party rule and dominant government is a threat to democracy
The Electoral College is hazardous to democracy, Raskin says
Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday the Electoral College “has become a danger” to American democracy.
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” the Maryland Democrat said: “I think that the Electoral College now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in our history — twice in this century alone — has become a danger.”
Raskin said it is about time that Americans elect presidents the same way they elect other public officials, through the popular vote.
“It was a danger on January 6th,” said Raskin, who served on the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, “There are so many curving by-ways and nooks and crannies in the Electoral College that there are opportunities for a lot of strategic mischief.”
Good grief. Will Dems be whining about J6 decades from now, like the do Bush winning, or, as they say, stealing, the 2000 election?
The Electoral College was created by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution; the Electoral Count Act of 1887 has guided practical aspects of how it functions for well over a century. Proponents of the existing system argue that it gives individual states an important role in national elections.
Yes, the Framers did include it, so, apparently they are A Threat To Democracy, right? Except, as anyone who’s not a lunatic Democrat knows, we are not a democracy. The system was designed to stop large states from running roughshod over small states. They all have a say. But, Democrats think it’s unfair that they can lose per the rules of the game.
Raskin said the Electoral College is one aspect of the American system that has little appeal internationally.
“We spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year exporting American democracy to other countries,” he said to host Margaret Brennan, “and the one thing they never come back to us with is the idea that, oh, that Electoral College thing you have that’s so great. We think we’ll adopt that, too.”
Name one country of our size that was set up as our Constitution did, with 13 states…that’s another word for nation, because each of the former colonies had their own needs and wants and governance, and were supposed to run on their own, with the federal government only given certain duties, like raising a military and controlling the monetary system….joining together. It was a beautiful system established, and would work better if the 17th Amendment was repealed, which would have Senators represent the wishes of the state general assemblies, rather than special interests on the other side of the country.
The system is set up to make it very, very hard to do anything big, and getting rid of the electoral college would require a Constitutional convention. It won’t happen. And Democrats will keep whining.
Read: Hot Take: The Electoral College Is A Threat To Democracy »
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) was the only House Democrat to vote against a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package on Friday, voting “no” on the measure because of increased funding for defense and federal agencies that oversee immigration.
Watch out for falling iguanas in South Florida this Christmas. Seriously.
