The Electoral College convenes on Monday to select the next President of the USA. Hillary Clinton supporters have mounted an effort to try and convince the electors they should not just hand the election to Donald Trump.

After all, Secretary Clinton won 2.8 million more popular votes than Donald Trump. Their argument is the will of the people is with Mrs. Clinton, and not Mr. Trump. It is a fact as indisputable as the sun will rise tomorrow, that Mrs. Clinton won more votes nationally than Mr. Trump. All of Trump's bluster about landslides is just that, bluster.

What Mr. Trump has won is more electoral college votes than Mrs. Clinton IF the electors decide their votes shall follow the outcome of the election in their states. The Trump crowd argues that the electors have a Constitutional obligation to vote for their man. Nothing could be further from the truth. That's pretty normal for Trump and his supporters. They talk without checking details like facts.

The fact is the US Constitution is silent on how electors should vote. It is just as valid to hold the national vote sacred, as Mrs. Clinton's supporters ask, as it is to hold the state-by-state vote sacred as Mr. Trump's supporters are asking the electors to do. Only 29 states and the District of Columbia have laws that attempt to tie the electoral vote to the popular vote of the State or District. Of those 30, Mr. Trump won 15.

A lot is being attributed to the Federalist Paper No. 68, and a passage written by Alexander Hamilton, saying that electors could be used to stop a Foreign Power from taking over our election. Hamilton writes the electors are a mechanism to stop “the design in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How better could they gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?”

Of course, Hamilton was thinking of England when he wrote the above sentence. One of the fears of the Founders was that England would use the system to take control of the USA back. Hence, to mitigate the risk of a British Agent taking over the Government, the Electoral College was formed as a final check of loyalty to the American Experiment.

Hamilton's words are being used by Hillary supporters in reference to Putin and his releasing information about Mrs. Clinton's emails just prior to the election. Those who subscribe to the conspiracy that Mr. Trump is Putin's Puppet use Trump's statement in July, “Russia, if you are listening, I hope you find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

One thing we know for certain, and it is an indisputable fact, is that Trump's mouth has no filters. He says stupid things off the top of his head. To use this as “proof” of conspiracy is as absurd as using photos of Barack Obama as a child in Kenya and claiming that was his nation of birth.

What is significant about the statement that should give electors pause is how inappropriate the statement is. I don't believe Donald Trump is an agent of Russia any more than I believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya, or that Hitler is alive and was involved with 9/11.

It is obvious that Putin wants Trump in the White House. He wants him in the White House because Trump is an isolationist, non-interventionist, protectionist, and has no clue as to what he is doing when it comes to Foreign Policy or Military Policy. He also refuses to take briefings and thinks he knows more than the Generals or combined intelligence agencies. All this is music to Vlad Putin's ears. It is the perfect storm of ignorance, ego, naivete and possibly mental illness. That is another reason the electors should think long and hard before handing the reigns of government to a man who is not right in the head.

To blow up the system and to set the precedent that someone unqualified at best, and unstable at the worst, and petty and vindictive as a certainty, should be denied the White House the electors will need more than left-wing celebrity endorsements. They will need convincing evidence from Donald Trump that he should be denied the Presidency.

I think he is handing electors that evidence. Trump's steadfast refusal to take intelligence briefings, his pettiness, and bad temper, his statement that he will retain business interests in a TV network that has the task of reporting on him, are reason enough. His shenanigans on twitter are reason enough to doubt his stability. Picking on a housewife because she got under his skin on twitter shows instability.

Could the electors hand the election to Mrs. Clinton on Monday? Yes, legally they could. Will they hand it to her using the popular vote as justification? Probably not.

I know Mrs. Clinton's supporters are hoping against hope. We need to face the reality that it will not happen and figure out what can be done to protect our institutions for the next four years. Our best hope is in the Senate. The GOP has only 51 seats in the chamber. It takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster or to seat a Supreme Court Justice. So we can stop a lunatic on the court, or halt the repeal of health insurance for the poor. We are not without power.

However, we need to not dabble in conspiracies about Putin and Trump. It is as damaging to the nation as the Birthers and the Benghazi crowd. Also, if Michael Moore wanted to really be helpful, he could shut up. The lunatic wing will only help Trump because they make those who have legitimate reasons to oppose things the GOP is proposing appear to be part of the crazy.

We need to move on and figure out what is next. We need rational solutions and not fantasies.

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