Well, well, Harry. "Extremely common sense." How precious. Nothing says a confident grasp of the founding documents like calling for the abolition of a constitutional mechanism you cannot even describe. Six words, Harry — "this is extremely common sense so of course Republicans oppose it." Isn't it dangerous to use your whole vocabulary in one sentence?
Quick question: on the federal level, what do YOU personally vote for, other than a representative? Take your time. Hint: it's the House. Just the House. Senators weren't directly elected until the 17th Amendment in 1913, and the President was never SUPPOSED to be either, per Article II and the 12th Amendment. Somebody was hiding behind the door when God handed out brains and figured civics could wait.
Now Pete's quote: "we need a system where the person who gets the most votes wins the election." Profound, from a man who dropped his own campaign before Indiana ever voted in its primary. He's a Snollygoster and a Gascon rolled into one — shrewd, unprincipled, all talk, zero delivery — with zero recollection of Federalist No. 68, where Hamilton explained why the Electoral College exists: so the President never falls to a body prone to "heats and ferments," to "cabal, intrigue, and corruption," or to "the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils." Written in 1788, and it still describes this quote-tweet. His grasp of civics runs on dial-up in a fiber-optic world, and yours isn't doing much better retweeting it like scripture.
Madison, Federalist No. 10, for those keeping score at home (Harry, that's you): pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention" and are "as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." The Founders built a REPUBLIC to filter passion through representation, because unchecked majority mood swings are how 51% legislates away the other 49 percent's rights before lunch.
Brass tacks: kill the Electoral College and campaigning collapses into five press conferences in five zip codes — New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix. Flyover country becomes scenery nobody courts again. The party of "the forgotten" engineers the system that forgets them first. Miles to go before mediocre on this one.
Here's what should keep you up at night: a close election today means a recount in ONE state. Ask Florida, 2000. Under a straight popular vote, EVERY precinct becomes contestable, since a hundred votes in rural Nebraska count exactly as much as a hundred in downtown Chicago. One Florida recount becomes fifty, forever — designed by someone who couldn't find his own rear end with both hands and a map.
What's next, somebody proposes scrapping the Senate too, since two farmers in Wyoming and two financiers in California getting equal votes offends the math... oh wait, abolishing the Electoral College already does that to the presidency! Quinn's Law #22: liberals love democracy right up until it stops handing them what they want. Nobody wanted to torch the Electoral College in 2008, 2012, or 2020 — only the two times it didn't hand your side the trophy. Sometimes the majority just means all the fools agreed on the same guy, and that's not a design flaw, that's the feature working as intended.
Goal #29 of the 45 Communist Goals for America, read into the Congressional Record by Rep. A.S. Herlong Jr., January 10, 1963: "Discredit the U.S. Constitution as inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs." Status: Pending. Pete and Democrats Deliver would love to help close that one out, live.
"Most votes wins" survives Article V — the actual, legal, three-fourths-of-the-states way you amend this — about as well as a browser with 47 tabs open and none loading. I'd explain "democratic" versus "Democracy," but I left my crayons at home, and 404 brain not found feels right here. You're proof a platform can't buy intelligence, Harry, but it sure can buy impressions.
But what do I know, I'm only someone who read Article II, the 12th Amendment, and Federalist 68 and 10 before calling something "common sense."
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