Mob Rule - Part I

I just read that there is a move afoot, again, to abolish the Electoral College in favor of electing the United States President by popular vote. God help us all if we allow this to happen.

Don't get me wrong here, it’s not that I am in favor of ramming the wishes of the few down the throats of the many regarding everything from toothpaste flavor to the choice of boxers or briefs.

Its just that I and many well-read like-minded people strongly believe that popular voting is better suited to the resolution of issues like where to go for dinner tonight, the election of a team captain in little league baseball, or deciding on the appropriate debutant to fill the role of homecoming queen at the local high school. The election of the leader of the most powerful and influential nation on the earth is quite another matter, however.

I am in some pretty impressive company when it comes to supporting the Electoral College. Guys with last names like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin realized nearly 250 years ago that every single democracy that had preceded our fine country’s existence, with the ensuing concept of popular vote, had ultimately degenerated into a state of MOB RULE. For this and other reasons, the government of the United States of America was intentionally set up as a REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC, not a Democracy.

Unfortunately, that little itty bitty distinction has evidently been forgotten by many of the citizens/voters educated in public (government) schools before about 1980 and has been intentionally marginalized or outright omitted from the education of those whom graduated since that era. It is also being intentionally overlooked by an insidious segment of our population like the socialists, the democrats, and the anarchists in an overt effort to gain control of our government.

A very loud, far reaching voice, The New York Times, recently editorialized for the abolition of the Electoral College because, in the writer’s opinion, it "thwarts the will of the majority, distorts presidential campaigning and has the potential to produce a true constitutional crisis." Well boo hoo hoo, where is my hanky?

As Lord Alexander Tyler, an 18th /19th century Scottish historian/professor so eloquently stated:

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

From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith
From spiritual faith to great courage
From courage to liberty
From liberty to abundance
From abundance to selfishness
From selfishness to complacency
From complacency to apathy
From apathy to dependency
From dependency back to bondage."

The Electoral College http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/ is one of the highest forms of checks and balances against mob rule that is found in our government today. They already took the right to appoint US Senators away from the State governments and replaced it with a popular vote--please don’t let this same tragedy befall the office of President of the United States.

Extra Reading to get you ready for Mob Rule - Part II:

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay composed and published The Federalist Papers in the late 1700’s in part as a campaign to rally support for ratification of the US Constitution. I bet you that your kids didn’t see much of these writing in US History class.