Electoral College: A Racist Scam?

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) claims the electoral college “Is a racist scam.” However, I believe the biggest scam is how she graduated college without having any understanding of Civics. In her short time in Congress, AOC has taken Left-Wing lunacy to another level. Ms. Cortez, the most vocal and telegenic member of what is known as the “Squad,” in her short time as Congresswoman, has made some pretty outrageous statements.

The Electoral College is the glue that holds society together.

She has had ideas such as: Wanting to spend 90 trillion for a “Green New Deal” When challenged about how it is getting paid for, her answer was, ‘The world will end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'” She also wants to tax the rich in excess of 70% because she believes “a system that allows billionaires to exist” is immoral.

She also accused ICE (Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement) agents of sexually harassing her, and claimed they are running concentration camps, where children were forced to drink out of toilet bowls. Yet, mysteriously, she was a No vote in granting humanitarian aid to migrants children. The very people she claimed to care about. Because you guessed it. “ Donald Trump is a White Supremacist.”

AOC: Another Level of Left Wing Lunacy

While her past statements could be dismissed as misinformed, ignorant or childish, AOC has gone to another level of Left-wing lunacy in wanting to abolish the Electoral College. Her latest absurdity is that the Electoral College is “A racist scam.” She states the EC favors mostly white and rural states at the expense of those with large minority populations. This needs to not be dismissed. We need to push back against her statements vigorously.

If Alexandria Ocasio Cortez had ever taken a Civics course, read the Federalist Papers, or learned about the Constitutional Convention, she would understand the Electoral College was designed to protect “Minorities” like her from “The Tyranny of the majority” This willful ignorance of the purpose of the Electoral College is why America is in danger of breaking up into something that resembles Europe before World War I, or the Middle East, where tribal conflicts and 100-year wars rule the day.

Do Regressives think New York or California would remain as they are today if they ever got their way and abolished the Electoral College? Many states such as Maryland and California are trying to break up because the urban populations are overruling the suburbs with Regressive policies. Without the Electoral College, there’s nothing stopping rural Maryland breaking away from Prince George county and Baltimore. Without Federal Aid many of the residents would have a humanitarian crisis.

Not Only That

There would be more complications if the Electoral College was abolished than those. States like Delaware and New Jersey could say since there is no federal body, we can charge whatever fee we want to use our roads, bridges and seaports. Large states like Pennsylvania and New York would be at war with New Jersey over water rights to the Hudson and Delaware rivers.

While New York City is a large city it would be marginalized. If New Jersey residents (even places like Albany and Eastern Pennsylvania) gang up and resist New Yorkers, they could use their majorities to impose their will. What also could happen if we did away with the Electoral College is the US dollar as we know it would cease to exist. Because states that secede could form their own currency and tax system to bring in revenue.

While some rail against having a federal body like Washington, they do not understand what would happen if we didn’t. If AOC ever read a civics course, she would understand the reason we have the United States. We had these battles over commerce, transportation, and currency while colonies. The way we stopped these tribal battles was by allowing small states to be represented in an Electoral College.

Protecting the Individual States

Why would farmers from Iowa or ranchers from Montana opt into the United States if large states such as New York or California say they can’t farm, own a gun or ranch because we used our majority to outvote them?

I blame Democrats and large money interests from New York and California who want to abolish the Electoral College. They do so to impose their corporatist globalist agenda for the sole purpose of greed and profit.

AOC’s claim that the Electoral College was racist, she bolsters with this: “Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the Electoral College effectively weighs white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a ‘one person, one vote’ system where all our votes are counted equally.” Currently, 15 states are trying to abolish the Electoral College, with Colorado leading the charge by rewarding their electors to the candidate that wins the popular vote, instead of the will of the voters in that state.

A Radically Different Country

In the end, if the Electoral College was abolished, we would have a radically different country. Tribal conflicts and Civil Wars would ensue. Because small states like New Jersey wouldn’t accept citizens from Philadelphia and New York, those states could impose their majorities on them. Would states such as Rhode Island and New Hampshire like to have Elizabeth Warren taking resources from rural white voters with no federal oversight in the name of white privilege?

What about smaller ethnic groups such as Asian and Hispanics being bullied by larger white and black populations? Being forced to pay reparations or some redistributive tax for conflicts they weren’t part of because they were outvoted by a popular vote? The Electoral College is the glue that holds society together. We must resist all efforts by large powerful interests to pull the wool over people’s eyes to abolish it!