Open memo to Democrats incessantly harping on who won the popular vote in this or other presidential elections and bemoaning the Electoral College setup: If you don’t like it, change the Constitution.
And here’s how you would do that. First, you would need two-thirds of Congress to pass a proposed amendment. Good luck getting that in the Senate, or even the House of Representatives.
If somehow Democrats might manage that super majority, they would then move on to needing three-quarters of state legislatures or special ratifying conventions in states to approve the change.
Even the Masters of Ballot Harvesting likely would find the amendment process too daunting.
But why change it in the first place? Because the Democrats want to be able to control the nation by dominating politics in just two states – New York and California.
It’s not enough that California with 55 electoral votes and New York with 29, means in the typical election that the Democratic candidate starts with almost one-third of the 270 electoral votes necessary to win.
The Democrats want to scrap the electoral system and gain even more advantage from dominating the popular vote in those two states.
That supposed 5-million edge in the popular vote for Biden that is trumpeted endlessly by liberals, well that is all accounted for by California and New York. That leaves 48 other states (forget the tiny voting monolith that is the District of Columbia) who either went for President Trump or Biden by much smaller margins.
Our Founding Fathers foresaw this cramming of population into a few states as having the potential to disproportionately sway national outcomes and so they put in provisions that gave weight to the other states, both in terms of the Electoral College and the Senate having two members per state, no matter the population of that state.
The House of Representatives is reserved for population-proportional membership.
Remember, this is the UNITED STATES of America. We have a federal government, whose powers intentionally are to be limited, with the majority of powers supposed to be reserved for states.
Despite the pap spewed by too many that the U.S. is a homogeneous place, people in, say, North Dakota, or rural Pennsylvania, generally are very different in terms of thought process and custom from those in urban California or New York.
Democrats love to claim to celebrate diversity, but in the case of national politics, they want conservatives and/or Republicans to have no real say in the course of the nation.
Realizing their difficulty in ramming through an amendment to the Constitution, Democrats are, in their typical backdoor fashion, looking to take the easy route should they control the Senate, too, by decreeing statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico. Voila, four more senators virtually guaranteed to be Democrats. Good luck, Republicans, ever being able again to post a Senate majority.
The United States’ two-party system can survive a Biden presidency as long as the Senate control remains with the Republicans. That puts incredible significance on two Senate runoff elections in Georgia.
If somehow the Democrats win both runoffs, forging a tie in the Senate, then the tie-breaking vote goes to the sitting vice president, which figures to be a Democrat for the next four years.
Then it’s hello D.C. and Puerto Rico statehood and goodbye checks and balances in the federal government – first the executive and legislative branches will be under one-party control and, eventually, the judicial will tilt left be it by immediate Supreme Court packing, or eventual loading up with liberal judges appointed by Democratic presidents and confirmed by Democratic-controlled Senates.
Simply put, the United States as we know it has come to an existential crossroads, with two runoff elections in Georgia likely the last line of defense.
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