plenty let me just put a punctuation
mark on d conversation i had to
terrorize
about the electoral college
for those of you just built a little a
little history lesson here little
history one oh one first
when they were first putting together a
howard to decide who is president of the
united states the founders of this
country were confronted by too
problems
the first was
that since this was a
this was the only thing that was a
national election
right being in the state of georgia they
voted for their two senators actually
union vote for the center's there a
point of the state legislature
darnell right up until nineteen what
eighteen or something like that
but but in any case eight date date date
locally determined within the state they
determine who their senators are going
to be
and other members of the house
represented sort it is very worthy
governor and the gender gap
all that stuff
the one position
where all the states voted for the for
that one thing was president
answer the question was how weak how do
we do the first problem was how do we
communicate
to washington d_c_ actually was new york
city at the time george washington was
a sworn in as president uh... of where
wall street is right now in new york
city
how you can it how do you communicate
what the vote of the states is in a
timely fashion
and secondly would be no
what if the states make a stupid
decision
because there was actually some you know
there was a buff action back then the
federalists
who weren't all that i
guy because he has to go out the idea
small d_ democracy day we have which is
why they didn't like the senate
toward the senate was not directly
elected for for over a hundred years
was because they were like a widow will
let the states deal with who is in the
senate
men back in
again montana copper kings you know in a
condo
uh... it was the cooper family maybe
maybe now whatever was that they had
this guy came in its about ten thousand
dollars anybody who votes for me for the
senate united states and cracked as it
was picked by the
by the uh... by the oklahoma city
to the montana senate montana side
and in fact where the governor montana
on this program talking about this very
thing just a few months ago
and this is why montana nineteen
eighteen passed a law saying that it's
against the law
for corporations to give money to
politicians
so anyhow but i digress okay so not the
big the first prom they had was
it how do we
communicate with the states will is with
regard to who the president should be
and the second was
how do you keep the slave states
with her to the president
now for the small states like delaware
rhode island while they were concerned
about not having representation
and dust they were bill please to have
two senators
they were quite that much concerned
about who's president because frankly
they were probably more white men in
delaware than the weren't george at the
found in this country
you know delaware was a little teeny
tiny state
but it was a free state
it was not a sleigh stick
the slave states he had very large
populations of slaves in very small
populations of white people who ran the
who owned them
and so
one of the ways
solve this problem of body elect the
president was with the electoral college
now it
to uh... jefferson had looked back at
the week histories the histories of
england before
the invasion by the by the romans
when the british were living there
has tribal people
and mostly red haired tribal people
which thomas jefferson delighted in cuz
you had red hair
he looked at those way histories
uh... paul their api in the tor osprey
samples that that the most famous we'd
be historian
author of the
of the history of england before he
became officially england
he read those histories and
he saw that the these tribes they
literally were tribes like native
american tribes
these tribes had collected and and and
sent
each one kisses selected a wise elder in
sent that wise elder to the annual
meeting where they pick to would
basically be the president of the island
of the british are out
or at least depardieu the british alan
that wasn't
the southern part
and this council of wise elders was
called the vatican i shall
from the old germanic
roots of english
of old english
and each community would pick
they're wise elder and they'd say to
their wise older well we think that it
should be joe blow who is
the the the had died but you
boat where everything is best when you
get there
and so the the the
the electorate's
from the various tribes of england would
go to the central place you know london
there were a was
brother was long before there was a
london but were ever was
for the big
you know council fire in an old you know
that elders meeting
and if they would bring with them the
the will of their state but they are or
they're they're tried but they also
brought their own intelligence and
they'd sit around in a to interview the
candidates
and they would pick the person who is
the most well-suited
wayne two things way in the will of
their state or of their tried
and their own wisdom
jefferson told madison about this
madison helped write the constitution
use jefferson's protege
and that's why in the electoral college
the electors don't actually have to vote
the way that their sense
there was a few
if u boy when you get to see your ballot
for president anne used to be i'm not
sure how they'd
print them these days depends on the
state the herein
but very often what you'll see as you're
not actually voting for
papa ma or romney you're voting for
jun johnson
elect or four obama
and build bill or its own
that elect or for romney
is brilliant during your voting for the
electr
and the elector actually under the
constitution has the power to change
their mind when they go to washington
d_c_ gas the electoral vote
which happens
after
the first
tuesday november
because the second tuesday now's the
first justin
and that's the actual vote
and it's happen in the united states has
happened in our history four five six
times that a lot
but electors at change their minds and
they have not voted the with the people
who sent them but
but really the big issue here is cheap
labor
okay now i've i'd set the table for your
have laid out the history of this
now what you have to understand is that
the reason why the electoral college the
real reason why the electra colleges put
in place
it was gusting up with this idea that
they could get bigger go my shot
and and electors are given the right to
boat they're their conscience you know
the when one of those for somebody that
when they get a d_c_ discovered was
unisom cropped guy running a a
uh... possible repeater something
they can vote their conscience
alone of that i would get you the
election
uh... big about the crashes but uh... it
was gusting up like a bite
the reality was is about to cheap labor
it was about preserving the institution
of slavery and giving slave holders
extra representation
originally
and now the people who are in my opinion
supporting the maintenance of the
electoral college it's about the cheap
labor to why
because the right to work for less
states
have smaller populations
then the union states by and large
and they're more likely to be read
states the moral and so therefore
they want to have a
disproportion say and what the electoral
college does is it gives those
lightly populated right to work for less
states
the old slave states
and the states where you've got very
small populations relatively speaking
gives them
more power in deciding who the president
has states's
now i know in the past i have said that
i think that the electoral college is
vestigial and yet we should probably
keep it
i have changed my mind
and i think it's all about the ci
you're listening to the trial mark munro
does it come hardman dot com karana
video or we used to call that cheap
labor slavery dollars in free was cheap
in defeat them and allison
and now we call it the minimum wage
it's all about the truth
