The reasons I do not like it have been explained. But its NOT about my likes and dislikes. Its about a system that produces a president that sometimes (s in twice in the last five elections) goes against the principle of a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It produces a president who is rendered as illegitimate in the eyes of many Americans. That is bad for a democratic republic like ours and seriously erodes at public faith and confidence in the very system of government we have.
And that high threshold effectively changing the system as the smaller states who vote Republican will not give up any advantage that is perceived they have today. Its just not going to happen.
Today you live in California. As you know, the days are long gone when the vast majority of Americas were Michiganders, or Texans, or New Yorkers, or Alabamanians, or Iowans or any other state which claimed their allegiance. Today a baby is born in Ohio, has its family move to Illinois for a few years, maybe then lives in Colorado for a time, goes to college in Texas, does advanced studies in Oregon, meets a spouse and they settle in New Mexico, change jobs a couple of times over the next thirty years and live in Florida and New York and Tennessee along the way. They retire and live in Arizona.
We no longer are as tied to states as we have been in the past. Today we are the USA and most people consider themselves Americans first.
We have to far that fact and accept that fact and our political institutions must reflect that changing reality.
NO. I do NOT want to give any power to any state. I want the power too be with the American people regardless if they live in a big state or a small state or a village, town or city. I want all of their votes to have the same weight behind them and have no American with their vote counting more than any other citizen. And they only way you can do that is to abolish the EC.
Yes - we the people. All the people regardless where they live at any given point in their life cycle.
Actually, that is not true. I would refer you to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in his excellent Federalist Paper 68 who explains why we have the EC and how it was suppose to protect America. He said the greatest threat to America came from a foreign power trying to install a creature of its own control into our highest office. And he said the small elite EC members would protect against that.
In 2016, not only did the EC fail to do that, but there is not a single shred of evidence that they even attempted to try and do that in one single state. Not a one. here is a link to it
The Avalon Project : Federalist No 68
Hamiltons words to the nation
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Not one state did this when they met after the 2016 election. Not a one.
That was the Founders promise as how the EC would protect us in return for NOT having a direct citizen vote - and it has failed.
