THE WISDOM OF OUR NATION'S
FOUNDERS IS ONE OF GOD'S
GREAT GIFTS TO AMERICA.
RECENTLY, MANY ON THE
POLITICAL LEFT HAVE CALLED
FOR ABOLISHING THE
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
THEY CLAIM IT'S
ANTI-DEMOCRATIC- LARGELY
BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WON
THE ELECTORAL VOTE AND
THUS THE PRESIDENCY, WHILE
HILLARY CLINTON WON MORE
POPULAR VOTES IN 2016.
WELL, HERE'S SOME NEWS
THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU-
THE FOUNDING FATHERS WHO
FRAMED THE CONSTITUTION
WANTED NO PART OF
PURE DEMOCRACY.
JAMES MADISON, CONSIDERED
THE FATHER OF OUR
CONSTITUTION, WROTE THIS:
"DEMOCRACIES HAVE EVER
BEEN SPECTACLES OF
TURBULENCE AND CONTENTION;
HAVE EVER BEEN FOUND
INCOMPATIBLE WITH PERSONAL
SECURITY OR THE RIGHTS OF
PROPERTY; AND HAVE BEEN IN
GENERAL AS SHORT IN THEIR
LIVES AS THEY HAVE BEEN
VIOLENT IN THEIR DEATHS."
THE FRAMERS OF
OUR CONSTITUTION
SELF-CONSCIOUSLY GAVE US A
REPUBLIC- A REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT- BECAUSE
THEY SAW DEMOCRACY AS
ESSENTIALLY MOB RULE.
AND THAT WAS LONG BEFORE
THE FICKLE ERA OF SOCIAL
MEDIA BULLY CAMPAIGNS
AND THE SO-CALLED CANCEL
CULTURE.
THEY GAVE US A SYSTEM
IN WHICH STATES APPOINT
ELECTORS TO VOTE FOR
PRESIDENT, BECAUSE THEY
KNEW GOVERNMENT BY
REPRESENTATIVE WOULD
ENSURE THE MOST STABILITY
AND PEACE IN AMERICA.
JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE
MORE PURE DEMOCRACIES IN
THE WORLD.
THOUGH BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
HAS BEEN PRIME MINISTER OF
ISRAEL FOR NEARLY 13
YEARS, IN 2019 HE HAD TO
FACE 2 ELECTION BATTLES
IN THE SAME YEAR.
IN GREAT BRITAIN, BORIS
JOHNSON BECAME PRIME
MINISTER IN JULY 2019- AND
FACED ANOTHER ELECTION
CHALLENGE IN DECEMBER
OF THAT YEAR.
FRANCE IS NOW ON ITS 5TH
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FORM OF
GOVERNMENT SINCE THEIR OWN
REVOLUTION IN 1789- THE
VERY YEAR IN WHICH OUR
CONSTITUTION WAS RATIFIED.
AND NOW MORE THAN 230
YEARS LATER, AMERICA
REMAINS A BEACON OF HOPE
AND STABILITY- AND THE
ENVY OF THE MODERN WORLD.
TO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE THIS
ALL SOUNDS ARCANE AND
ANACHRONISTIC- WHICH IS A
SAD TESTIMONY TO THE STATE
OF PUBLIC EDUCATION
IN OUR DAY.
AS PRESIDENT REAGAN ONCE
SAID OF HIS POLITICAL
OPPONENTS: "IT ISN'T SO
MUCH THAT LIBERALS ARE
IGNORANT.
IT'S JUST THAT THEY KNOW
SO MANY THINGS THAT AREN'T
SO."
THIS PERFECTLY DESCRIBES
MANY IN OUR DAY.
FOR ALL THEIR PASSION REAL
OR PRETENDED, THE AIM OF
THE POLITICAL LEFT IS
CLEAR- TO UPROOT THE
FOUNDATIONS OF OUR
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
AND WE MUST STAND AND
DEFEND ONE OF GOD'S
GREATEST GIFTS TO US- A
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
THAT IS OF, BY,
AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
