Our (your) election

in #writing5 years ago

There has been something puzzling me for quite some time, now. I have been having a very hard time with the action of “Democracy” as having only 2 choices. Why is that? Have you ever wondered?

Over 200 years ago when our country was very young, we voted for the most popular person for the Presidency. The second place finisher was the Vice President. So the American People was voting for 2 people at the time. There was NO DNC or RNC to govern who your choices were. There was simply the constitutionally mandated “Electorate” which equaled the number of Senators and Representatives in Congress.

Even before the “Electoral College” we had in place a means of quickly identifying the next President. The original method, though, was to slow for the wealthiest among us, even in 1804, so they all got together and purchased, through Congress, a means of quicker identification of the President. Now, instead of taking several months to gather the votes from the various outlying States to count, the “Electoral College” was kept in Washington D.C. for ease of counting. Where the Electorate used to count the popular vote in their own States, it is now done with telegraph and issued to the Electoral College who could either keep or change the outcome of the popular vote depending on their “payout”.

With Communication the way it is today, is there really a reason to keep the Electoral College? Is there really any reasoning behind that institution being in existence?

Why has OUR government deregulated every aspect of our life to the point that parents have to work 2 and 3 jobs apiece to be able to afford their child any kind of Schooling? Why is it that our government is protecting a failed Capitalistic State? Does anyone realize that our democratic Republic has degenerated almost to a Totalitarian Dictatorship? Has anyone realized why it is that a vibrant socio-economic state fails? It is due to CORRUPTION running RAMPANT throughout the government.. Mike, out

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