The best way to defend our democracy is to make public all financing of elections and eliminate the electoral college. Today I want to focus on the electoral college but by no accounting is the public financing of elections any less important. The electoral college was put into place by those who feared that direct democracy would somehow be manipulated to elect an person who would otherwise do damage to democracy instead of promoting it's growth. Well we see with trump that the electoral college is not enough of a persuasive argument to block such an event. Which is why it had become less productive as a preventive measure.
Today's electorate although not fully informed nor enlightened to the values of democracy over their own considerations still have grown in intellectualism over the last 243 years. For us to be kept in the cradle as a child for this long a time because fear looms over the survival of democracy is absurd. Again, given that the fear actually allowed a manipulation of the electoral college system to force a non majority outcome in the 2016 presidential election. The time for a more direct democracy like what we use in all our other public offices has come. Making the case for dismantling the electoral college system of choosing our president outside our actual votes is being done quite obviously by trump, the brutish and inept appointed president.
At the same time the public financing of elections needs to happen as we have seen that the wealthy have too much influence in choosing our candidates for us who then do much to appease their donors and little else for us. Enough of that and enough of having some group of electoral college electors who get to decide what our votes mean outside and beyond our own choice. I have not been a child since the middle of the last century so why would I want the most important choice I make in our democracy to be subject to one person's interpretation? I don't and neither should anyone else when the candidate with the most votes has been denied the presidency twice in the last 20 years to favor a system that does less than nothing to protect our democracy.
Today's electorate although not fully informed nor enlightened to the values of democracy over their own considerations still have grown in intellectualism over the last 243 years. For us to be kept in the cradle as a child for this long a time because fear looms over the survival of democracy is absurd. Again, given that the fear actually allowed a manipulation of the electoral college system to force a non majority outcome in the 2016 presidential election. The time for a more direct democracy like what we use in all our other public offices has come. Making the case for dismantling the electoral college system of choosing our president outside our actual votes is being done quite obviously by trump, the brutish and inept appointed president.
At the same time the public financing of elections needs to happen as we have seen that the wealthy have too much influence in choosing our candidates for us who then do much to appease their donors and little else for us. Enough of that and enough of having some group of electoral college electors who get to decide what our votes mean outside and beyond our own choice. I have not been a child since the middle of the last century so why would I want the most important choice I make in our democracy to be subject to one person's interpretation? I don't and neither should anyone else when the candidate with the most votes has been denied the presidency twice in the last 20 years to favor a system that does less than nothing to protect our democracy.
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