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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: Ilaine who wrote (6553)12/26/2000 9:41:37 PM
From: Don Lloyd   of 6710
 
CB -

I am in favor of retaining the Electoral College as both a matter of principle and as a matter of pragmatism.

It is both a matter of logic and a lesson of history that democracy is a form of government that is unstable and certain to collapse. The only exception is a small country that does not control its own destiny, but merely is a participant in a global or regional political economy, with or without its express permission and agreement. The same exception is true of a socialist country. All socialist economies fail for the lack of pricing signals to allocate resources and the impossibility of the central planners having sufficient and appropriate knowledge to make their decisions. However, a socialist country can in part steal free market prices from capitalist economies to elongate its demise.

The Electoral College, independent of the actual reasons for its creation, serves as one of many anti-democratic mechanisms built into the Constitution. Unfortunately, many of these mechanisms have been corrupted, making the remaining ones even more important.

While the importance of the states in the Federalist structure is unquestionable, in fact they have been degraded to the point that they are little more than rubber stamps to ratify Federal mandates in exchange for funds. It was originally true that the state legislatures were a reasonable representation of the will of the people. Now the makeup of the state legislatures would be little changed by making random selections for legislators from all the ambulance-chasers who failed to earn enough to keep up their yellow page ads from one year to the next.

In the end the Constitution, and any constitution, is anti-democratic on its face if it cannot be overruled by a simple and immediate majority vote.

Regards, Don
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