The Electoral College like the Republicans and Democrats are vestiges of the Cold War and of a system that is experiencing the beginnings of a decline.
Since Alternative Parties [Third Parties are an invention of the Dinosaurs called Republicans, Democrats, and The Electoral College] have been offering a viable alternative, The Governing Corrupt Elite in Washington [in their hypocrisy of exporting democracy and freedom while repressing it at home] pass rules to keep alternative parties from campaigning effectively having to deal with “constitutional legalities”.
The Corrupt Elite of Republicans and Democrats [as well as the Electoral College] and their supporters have used tactics such as ballot access, media access, not going to debates in which alternative parties are present.
The proof lies in Ohio when the Republicans and Democrats [in 2004] denied ballot access to the Libertarian Party by nullifying unconstitutionally the 57,000 signatures of a petition. [This was the same method that Castro and Chavez [along with their followers] all of whom are puppets of this corrupt system do].
Who cannot forget in the 2006 Ohio Elections, the Republicans and Democrats refused to debate Libertarians and Greens. The Libertarians dressed up in chicken suits to call a spade a spade. In Illinois, Illinois Public Television could not have a debate since the Governor of Illinois did not want to debate a member of the Green Party.
In Wisconsin, the same thing occurred during the 2006 Elections with a senator threatening to have a Green Party Member arrested for “sedition and disturbing the peace”.
The following resolution is for the people of America to say enough is enough of Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Lefties, Rights and vote Libertarian, Green, or Independent.
Another resolution is for the people inside America and outside America to bring this out into the open and force a political opening with peaceful means. After all, if America can impose democracy and freedom on others, it could be time for the outside world to ask the same of America and its archaic Electoral College before it is too late.
Of course, the Republicans, Democrats, Electoral College, Members of the Elite should be replaced by a Constituent Assembly which would lead to a Multiracial Multi-ethnic Libertarian Green Government or Independent Government.
What job could be given the elite of Republicans, Democrats, Electoral College and their follower? Have them do the job of undocumented workers or illegal aliens as punishment for having destroyed the soul of America. The Electoral College is from a bygone era and usually helps the oligarchy called the Republican and Democratic Party. It also helps to disenfranchise those who actually cast their ballots.While The Electoral College has been successful in keeping extremists out of power in the past, it has not helped the people when both principal parties have resorted to using extreme measures to maintain power.
Even then, the Electoral College was tainted with irregularities in Florida [2000] with the disenfranchisement of voters and Ohio [2004] when Alternative Political Parties found their votes nullified by the Electoral College.Today’s Electoral College is a cumbersome waste of money, time, effort, and just simply a way for Republicans and Democrats to maintain their dictatorial monopoly on power. It is dictatorship disguised as democracy and has been imitated successfully by Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.The solution would be one man, one woman, one vote, and to have ALL Political Parties [excluding racist parties such as the Communists, Nazis, Socialists, and Racists] and Individuals without Political Affiliations to campaign on an equal basis without bias by the media, and the Electoral Commission.It is time to give the Electoral College a dignified ending by abolishing it
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Were the EC done away with, candidates would focus on only a few states at the expense of all fifty (and territories): California, Texas, New York, Florida, Ohio could be enough to secure victory. It's already like that in the sense that there are evenly divided red and blue states and a few "purple" ones as toss ups that decide elections.
I don't think we'd like the results of popular ballots for president any more than we do with the EC. We have an evenly divided population right now and both sides are bitterly partisan. It certainly wouldn't help third-party candidates since they rarely poll above 5% -- Nader and Perot are exceptions to the rule. If LPUSA couldn't make a bigger dent in 1988 with Ron Paul running with more establishment cred than he has now, they're probably not going to do it. Ever.
I'm libertarian but I participate in the two-party system and support candidates whose goals are closest to mine. Idealistic? No, not at all. Practical? *Very*.
At the end of the day, it's about participation in the process. Not bitching about it and only marginalizing yourself by supporting idealism over pragmatism and then attacking the system itself. The problem with third parties isn't the system, it's the message and self-marginalization.
Unions, gay rights groups, the Religious Right, and others didn't become powerful sitting on the outside and complaining. They got involved, for better or worse, to change things from the inside. How long until libertarians-as-a-movement are serious enough about their principles to get involved in the political process instead of whine about it?
I understand the frustration shared by people of all political stripes. But you have to look at the way our system was designed. It wasn't designed for crazy real democracy, it was designed with all kinds of checks and balances -- representative republic, where there are buffers preventing wild swings based on fickle whims of the electorate. The EC is one of those buffers: it requires presidential candidates to win *states*, not just votes. We're the United *States*, not the divided electorate.
Over thirty years of LPUSA failure, with few local victories to show for all the efforts and Nolan Charts and everything else, maybe it's time to use a different tactic than third party. The libertarian message has resonance with a lot of voters, but that hasn't translated to votes at the polls -- not because of lack of media coverage (I think LPUSA gets more than its share of coverage) or because the system is rigged (it isn't -- it's designed for stability rather than crazy swings between extremes). Voters are more comfortable with *two* choices even if they see it as lesser of evils; the consequences of math beyond two choices is more off-putting because it means the greater of evils has a better shot of winning. What LPUSA and other third parties have tried hasn't worked. They should change their tactics rather than the system. The problem for most third parties is, they tend to be zealous ideologues who don't care about practical steps to either get in power or to make piecemeal changes.
If you're pragmatic, you'll find ways to give voters what they want: a better choice *within* the system they choose to vote. Until you appeal to them, you're tilting at windmills or pissing in the wind. You're not compromising your principles when you participate in the system, you're insuring those principles are represented in the system.
Have a nice day. :-)