Indiana Democratic Senator Evan Bayh (or should we say Blah), who has been frequently mentioned as a candidate for the 2008 nomination (no seriously), has called for the elimination of the Electoral College.

From the moment Bush’s poll numbers began to slide in the months after his second inauguration, the Democrats have wasted no time in jockeying for the political spotlight. Blah’s brief remark about the Electoral College highlights the disconnect between the founders of this country, who feared the political implications of mob rule and the modern Democratic Party, who relies of demagoguery and the ever presence of a sheep like electorate to win elections.

Far from being a clamp on our Republic, the Electoral College was designed as it savior, a savior from mob rule. The absolute last thing this country needs is popular elections. If anything too many ignorant, uneducated, uninformed, easily manipulated individuals are allowed to vote in the first place. Decades ago women and people of color were denied the right to vote…this was certainly inappropriate, but other restrictions such has limiting voting rights to property owners, were based upon a sound principle even if the application was in error. The premise being that property owners had a vested interest in the prosperity and vibrancy of their communities, unlike transients they would make sound electoral decisions to ensure the continued success and prosperity of their communities. The same can be said today. Business owners, hard-workers, home owners, professionals have a vested interest in the continued prosperity of their country and are less influenced by charismatic politicos who promise handouts in exchange for votes…

Critics contend or nation is a democracy and suffrage should be universal…perhaps in theory this is so, but is it democracy when bribery is used as the principle motivator to influence the electorate?

Naturally the entitlement generation has a vested interest in returning leftists to power as they ensure a steady stream of welfare and other entitlement programs, in exchange for continued political support. While many Republicans support conservative demagogue who vow to impose their moral philosophy on the citizenry at large, irrespective of the constitution. The solution is an educated electorate, one which is capable of making rationale independent decisions based upon objective and empirical evidence, most Americans fail miserably in this regard.

Perhaps the citizenship test should be transformed into a suffrage test with sections on civics, history and economics, perhaps then we can consider Blah’s proposal to eliminate the Electoral College. Naturally advocates for the sheep-like will object, arguing any such test would be prejudicial, but as long as we have public schools and libraries, such arguments have no basis in fact, only sloth.
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