If you have been following politics for any length of time, you will notice that democrats and the media are making a big deal out of the “The Popular Vote.” In presidential elections, it matters in so much as it effects the electoral college. It doesn’t determine the ultimate victor. And yet, the left has been on a rampage screaming about how Hillary Clinton won more votes than Donald Trump. Politicians are going to politic. I can’t exactly blame democrats for using it as a political weapon that they got more votes. But it’s not going to change, and they knew the game they were playing. We count by touchdowns; not by rushing yards.

But if you really put your head to the ground, and listen to the discourse on the matter, the left absolutely wants the electoral college abolished. Going by twitter, they aren’t hiding it, and liberal journalists, lacking self awareness of how biased their tweets come off, are clearly in favor of abolition of it, their disdain for rural America becoming even more clear. There are many reasons for this that I won’t get into here, but I was forced to look at such a far fetched goal from a strategic viewpoint after the 2018 midterms.

It is Coordinated

Never in my life have I seen so many pundits and democrats discuss the popular vote of a midterm election. As in, who got more votes. It literally doesn’t matter. It only matters in so much as tracking turnout, perhaps. Maybe bragging rights. But the overall number doesn’t determine individual races where the popular vote does matter. Perhaps I am overlooking a past example of such singular focus, but that is doubtful. What you should also take notice of: The increasing coordination of the media message, and the democrat message. Journolist lives.

The thing about the left is that they play the long game. And playing the long game starts by planting seeds. The idea of abolishing the electoral college now sounds absurd, but 30 years from now? It might not be if there is no effective pushback to the seeds they are planting. This is how the left operates.

They don’t want gun confiscation. They just want common sense gun control. They don’t want socialized medicine. They just want preexisting conditions covered and prices to go down. For those who are young, you may not remember, but the idea of government run health care was political suicide once upon a time. Take a look at this:

When Obama was pushing Obamacare back in 2008-9, it was him and his wing of the party that was pushing back the single payer, medicare for all, progressive wing of the party. There were a lot of upset people with Obama at the time in Democrat circles. But Obama did play it smart; he knew it was just a seed that would pass congress and would later grow into something else in the current day: majorities of the democrat party favor government ran health care. When, back in 2009, a lot of people didn’t, even Democrats.

One cannot boil a frog if there are no small steps taken. One cannot grow something if there are no seeds planted. You may think abolishing the electoral college is crazy, but if we go by the rhetoric of democrats, democrat voters, and the democrat media (99 percent of the media), the idea has been planted. But while the aforementioned transition regarding healthcare took about 10 years, we live in accelerated times. Everything is moving faster. In a society where vast swaths of the country don’t share anything in common anymore, it’s even easier for one to begin to imagine this being politically viable in a mere five years.

The “Principled Conservative” will say: “I just want to be left alone!” The system will work itself out. We need to focus on prosperity! Eventually they will wake up! Great! Truly for some, mortality never dawns on them until they are locked in the cage, face to face, with the lion.

Five years, ten years, twenty five years — it doesn’t matter. What matters is the left is planting the idea seed now. Meanwhile, as Dabney famously said, Conservatism is but a mere shadow of progressivism, following it as a it rewrites everything, as it moves toward perdition.