Public support for the abolition of the Electoral College has been growing as of late, and for good reason. The Electoral College was initially created because our founding fathers didn’t trust the common man to be informed enough to make such an important decision, they wanted a buffer to assure a tyrannical unqualified populist wouldn’t become president, the idea of “tyranny of the majority”. Yet, ironically The Electoral College has now given us the most uninformed unqualified president ever.

Trump now being the 2nd straight Republican elected via the electoral college while simultaneously losing the popular vote has upset many Democrats and Independents and rightly so. There’s something seriously off with that, its inherently anti-Democratic.

Not only does it blow wind in the face of democratic ideals but its also harmful in several other ways.

The “winner take all” approach to the electoral college creates apathy in the election process, especially when only a couple of states(Pennsylvania, Michigan,Wisconsin,Florida) as seen below determine the outcome.