| Illinois Conservative |
Posted December 16, 2008
The Coming Revolution
As the world anxiously awaits the outcome of the balloting of the
Electoral College to see who the next President of the United
States will be, we are reminded once more of how far we have
strayed from the Constitution model of government set up by the
Founders. Even before the Electoral College vote was
announced, Barack Obama held a press conference announcing
his selection for key offices dealing with energy and the
environment in his coming administration. During the event, he
peered out at the assembled reporters over a sign emblazoned
with the legend “Office of the President Elect”.
The sign, of course, is only symbolic because the President-Elect is
not “official” until the Electoral College ballots have been counted
and certified by the President of the Senate. It does, however
symbolize Obama’s creation of the first unconstitutional office of his
administration, The Office of the President-Elect, and is a
precursor of many more unconstitutional offices he has planned for
the next few years.
Few functions of our government is more absurd than the
proceedings of the Electoral College. This fact alone should be a
signal to any thinking American that we have strayed from the
intent of the Founders. Furthermore, it is this absurdity that gives
fuel to organizations like National Popular Vote in their efforts to do
away with the Electoral College.
Every time the Electoral College meets to cast their “sham” votes
for the candidate prescribed by state law, in the tradition of the
world’s most notorious dictators, they insult the memory of
Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Henry and all the other great
patriots of the Philadelphia convention of 1787. A perusal of the
2008 electoral map shows the reason why the Electoral College
should be preserved and protected in spite of its abuse by the
establishment in our two political parties.
The United States is a vast country spanning four time-zones. The
purpose of the Electoral College is to insure that the Chief
Executives of the government represent the total population of the
nation, and not just the major population centers.
A study of election maps over the past twenty years shows the
focus of electoral power concentrated in continuously decreasing
pockets of “democratic/socialism”. If current trends continue the
nations population, in a few decades, will be concentrated in four or
five megalopolises located on the upper Atlantic coast, the upper
Midwest and the Pacific coast. These megalopolises dominated by
political machines like the one currently operating from Chicago will
determine the election of the President and Vice-President.
The Electoral College concept is one of the few defenses,
imperfect as it is, provided by the Constitution to protect us from
the “tyranny of the majority” and the uninformed voter. Its
abolishment would mean another breach in the wall between
freedom and tyranny.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, America will undergo
another revolution, either at the ballot box or on the “field of
battle”. The American people will not forever tolerate the tyranny
of socialism once they have personally experienced its effects over
a period of time. We need to preserve the Constitution in its
present form as much as possible as a blueprint for the
restructuring of government after the coming revolution.
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The Coming Revolution
As the world anxiously awaits the outcome of the balloting of the
Electoral College to see who the next President of the United
States will be, we are reminded once more of how far we have
strayed from the Constitution model of government set up by the
Founders. Even before the Electoral College vote was
announced, Barack Obama held a press conference announcing
his selection for key offices dealing with energy and the
environment in his coming administration. During the event, he
peered out at the assembled reporters over a sign emblazoned
with the legend “Office of the President Elect”.
The sign, of course, is only symbolic because the President-Elect is
not “official” until the Electoral College ballots have been counted
and certified by the President of the Senate. It does, however
symbolize Obama’s creation of the first unconstitutional office of his
administration, The Office of the President-Elect, and is a
precursor of many more unconstitutional offices he has planned for
the next few years.
Few functions of our government is more absurd than the
proceedings of the Electoral College. This fact alone should be a
signal to any thinking American that we have strayed from the
intent of the Founders. Furthermore, it is this absurdity that gives
fuel to organizations like National Popular Vote in their efforts to do
away with the Electoral College.
Every time the Electoral College meets to cast their “sham” votes
for the candidate prescribed by state law, in the tradition of the
world’s most notorious dictators, they insult the memory of
Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Henry and all the other great
patriots of the Philadelphia convention of 1787. A perusal of the
2008 electoral map shows the reason why the Electoral College
should be preserved and protected in spite of its abuse by the
establishment in our two political parties.
The United States is a vast country spanning four time-zones. The
purpose of the Electoral College is to insure that the Chief
Executives of the government represent the total population of the
nation, and not just the major population centers.
A study of election maps over the past twenty years shows the
focus of electoral power concentrated in continuously decreasing
pockets of “democratic/socialism”. If current trends continue the
nations population, in a few decades, will be concentrated in four or
five megalopolises located on the upper Atlantic coast, the upper
Midwest and the Pacific coast. These megalopolises dominated by
political machines like the one currently operating from Chicago will
determine the election of the President and Vice-President.
The Electoral College concept is one of the few defenses,
imperfect as it is, provided by the Constitution to protect us from
the “tyranny of the majority” and the uninformed voter. Its
abolishment would mean another breach in the wall between
freedom and tyranny.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, America will undergo
another revolution, either at the ballot box or on the “field of
battle”. The American people will not forever tolerate the tyranny
of socialism once they have personally experienced its effects over
a period of time. We need to preserve the Constitution in its
present form as much as possible as a blueprint for the
restructuring of government after the coming revolution.
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