I believe that the Electoral College is a direct violation of America’s founding principle that “All men are created equal”. If all “men” (all men and women) are created equal why aren’t all votes created equal”?
California has 40 million people and has 55 electoral college votes. That calculates to one electoral college vote for every 727 thousand Californians.
Wyoming has 586 thousand people and has 3 electoral college votes. That’s one electoral college vote for every 195 thousand Wyomingans.
So a Wyoming voter is 727K/198K = 3.7 times more unequal than a California voter. That’s ridiculous.
I know, it’s the Constitution. But slavery was the Constitution. Men only voting was the Constitution. The Constitution had problems, this is one of them.
I know, a Constitutional Amendment will never pass because the unfairly powerful low population states will vote their interests and block it. But shouldn’t the Basic American Principle that All Men and Women are created equal be enough to change that?
The idea that All Men are Created Equal ended slavery. The idea that All Men are Created Equal ended men only voting. The idea that all men are created equal ended Jim Crow election denial (shamefully, the radical Supreme Court OKed a resurgence of trying to re-establish the Jim Crow South).
The idea that All Men and Women are created equal can end the unfair Electoral College too.
We are in an era of greed and domination. But I believe America is getting sick of this paradigm, and that an era of goodness and honor is waiting to be freed.
Amend the Constitution.
