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Absurdity of the Electoral College:
Here's one nice thing we can now say about the Electoral College: it's slightly less harmful to our democracy than it was just days ago. In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that states have the right to "bind" their electors, requiring them to support whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote in their state. Justice Elena Kagan's opinion was a blow to so-called "faithless electors," but a win for self-government. "Here," she wrote, "the People rule."
Yet while we can all breathe a sigh of relief that rogue electors won't choose (or be coerced) into derailing the 2020 presidential contest, the Court's unanimous ruling is a helpful reminder that our two-step electoral process provides America with no tangible benefits and near-limitless possibilities for disaster. To put it more bluntly, the Electoral College is a terrible idea. And thanks to the Justices' decision, getting rid of it has never been easier.
[...] The Electoral College, in other words, serves no useful purpose, other than to intermittently and randomly override the people's will. It's the appendix of our body politic. Most of the time we don't notice it, and then every so often it flares up and nearly kills us.
[...] Justice Kagan's words – "Here, the People rule" – are stirring. But today, they are still more aspiration than declaration. By declining to make the Electoral College an even great threat to our democracy, the Court did its job. Now it's up to us. If you live in a state that hasn't joined the interstate compact, you can urge your state legislators and your governor to sign on. And no matter where you're from, you can dispel the myths about the Electoral College and who it really helps, myths that still lead some people to support it despite its total lack of redeeming qualities.
More than 215 years after the Electoral College was last reformed with the 12th Amendment, we once again have the opportunity to protect our presidential-election process and reassert the people's will. Regardless of who wins the White House in 2020, it's a chance we should take.
Would you get rid of the Electoral College? Why or why not?
Also at:
Supremes Signal a Brave New World of Popular Presidential Elections
Supreme Court Rules State 'Faithless Elector' Laws Constitutional
U.S. Supreme Court curbs 'faithless electors' in presidential voting
Supreme Court rules states can remove 'faithless electors'
(Score: -1, Troll) by hemocyanin on Monday July 13 2020, @05:40PM
We see the authoritarian nature of the regressive left in regards to speech it finds repugnant -- for example, a minority worker when he attempts to appease a leftist road rager: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ [theatlantic.com]
We see the authoritarian left's regard for the property of others, irregardless of whether it hurts people they claim to help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvNY2qesMc [youtube.com]
We see the way the authoritarian left is attempting to destroy science, a way of knowing that is validated by its results -- nobody ever prayed or drum-circled their way to the moon: https://financialpost.com/opinion/apocalyptic-science-how-the-west-is-destroying-itself [financialpost.com]
We see the authoritarian left's regard for history: https://globalnews.ca/news/7101452/madison-wisconsin-hans-christian-heg/ [globalnews.ca]
We see the way the authoritarian left adjacent democrats abuse civil liberties and Democrats cheer as hard as, or harder than, 2001-Republicans cheered "if you aren't with us you're against us" and Bush signed the PATRIOT Act -- these people are same coin/different side authoritarians: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/democrats-have-abandoned-civil-liberties [substack.com]
We see exactly what the authoritarian left's police would look like -- gunning down unarmed black kids based on mere suppositions: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8471219/One-man-dead-wounded-Seattle-CHOP-zone-shooting.html [dailymail.co.uk]
Note that the above linked story is an example of how the authoritarian left views the press as a place to lie and generate narrative. You can tell the CHAZ people are lying because in the video of the shooting, the kids, they were not shooting, all the shooting was from CHAZ rifles (you can tell this if you are familiar with the sound of gunfire) and the shooting started before the jeep crashes, not after -- this is a key detail because it makes the CHAZ people the initial aggressors in this incident (even if there was an incident 30 minutes before where the kids were initial aggressors -- not proven BTW, but just assuming -- this is still a second fight and CHAZ did murder under traditional self-defense legal analysis). You can also hear a CHAZ-cop walk up to the car and say "oh you're still alive? Want to get pistol whipped" and then there is a small pop, quieter than the rifle shots from just prior, as if the CHAZ-cop is delivering a coup de grace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRNOlkNY1F8 [youtube.com]
We understand exactly why the authoritarian left wants to destroy the EC so much. It wants to destroy everything good along with what is bad, and reshape this land into something terrifying and ugly. If they prevail, there will be killing fields.