Americans will vote this year using the same archaic method for choosing a president, the Electoral College, which does not necessarily allow the person who wins the most votes, aka the popular vote, to become president. Because of this anomaly, both George W. Bush and Donald Trump, instead of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, were chosen.
Many want the Electoral College abolished, replaced by how we elect all other officials, the popular vote. Yet this year, we will be using the same outdated method that undermines the democratic principle of “one-person, one-vote” and majority rule.
Had Gore been elected instead of Bush, the debacle of the Iraq War might have been avoided. And had Clinton been elected, garnering nearly 3 million more votes, our world would have been spared Donald Trump, who is, in my opinion, the most corrupt and divisive president ever elected, who has undermined the constitutional process with his distortion of truth, vile, inflammatory language, obstruction of justice, hate-mongering, betrayal of allies and overall demagoguery.
The Electoral College, which long ago outlived its usefulness, has given us this dangerous, vindictive, self-anointed genius who is clearly a despotic threat to our national security. Pray in 2020 it doesn’t happen again.
Ron Slabe
Oakmont