Among the numerous “reforms” that the Left has in mind to cement their control over America is the abolition of the Electoral College in favor of electing the president based on the national popular vote total. Tim Walz recently blabbed about this and was told to stifle himself, but we all know this is true.
In his latest Bastiat’s Window post, Bob Graboyes ponders the ramifications of ditching the electoral college, and they are disturbing.
He writes:
Across the American West, fire wardens create firebreaks — vegetation-free swaths gouged through forests and fields to slow and limit the spread of wildfires. In U.S. presidential elections, the Electoral College serves the same purpose — limiting the spread of one state’s malfeasance, manipulation, ineptitude, and/or operational failure to other states. For all the trauma and bitterness that emerged from Florida in 2000, the catastrophe was limited to one state.
The firebreaks analogy is a good one. The Electoral College was a well chosen mechanism for minimizing the harm that rampant democracy could do — one of several (all of which the Left wants to dismantle). The Founders had a good idea in their concept of a republic with strict limits on democracy. Direct popular election of the president is just one aspect of the progressive agenda for omnipotent government centered in the executive branch. It should be fought tooth and nail.