hello America I've got to take you to
the woodshed tonight
this is my little post-election video
and actually to be honest I'm filming
this about seven-thirty p.m. on tuesday
november the eighth so i actually don't
know how the election turned out yet
that's the reason i'm filming it now now
this video is me actually trying to make
the case for why we need the electoral
college
the reason I'm doing that is because I
have a strong suspicion that in this
election the electoral votes are going
to go one way and the popular vote is
going to go the other way just a
suspicion
now the authors of our Constitution put
in place several fail-safes to make sure
that we would remain a democratic
republic rather than a pure democracy
that's one of the things that they
really wanted to guard against one of
those fail-safes is the electoral
college if presidential elections were
decided by popular vote only what that
would mean is this at presidential
candidates would only have to campaign
in about half a dozen high population
centers the rest of the country like
places out here where i live in flyover
country these places that they wouldn't
even have to campaign out here just in
the big cities and possibly they'd have to
visit texas using the Electoral College
forces candidates to campaign out in
flyover over country and also it forces
them to keep their public discourse more
in keeping with the values of the common
man and that affects the culture the
authors of our Constitution were very
suspicious of pure democracy pure
democracy is nothing more or less than
mob rule on a national scale the old
adage really is true pure democracy is
simply two wolves and sheep voting on
what's for dinner
the fact that we have an electoral
college is is really a tribute to the
foresight of the authors of our
Constitution it really it really shows
their genius
they did not want mob rule one of the
scariest things
in history that anyone has ever seen is
an angry mob they're impossible to
appease always unpredictable and very
rarely just we don't want mob rule in
this country we do not want the
victorious majority running roughshod
over the recently defeated minority
we've never wanted that
that's never been our way mob rule is a
very scary thing our forefathers wanted
to guard against it
there are several fail-safes several
roadblocks to mob rule that our
forefathers put into the Constitution
one of them is the electoral college
you don't have to look very far before
you find historical examples of an angry
mob carrying out great injustices the
most famous of which is an angry mob who
shouted give us Barabbas
