No Kings In America!

People who try to school everyone on why we have to have the Electoral College (almost always right-wingers) really dill my pickle. They always come back to saying' that if we didn't have the Electoral College, we'd have mob rule by the majority, and that would harm the minority.

Let's think about this, shall we...

(Note - we will not be discussing the court system in this very short piece)

Let's start with local government.

First, you have the township, village, town, or city level. At that level, the government has to be focused on the good of the immediate citizenry. However, there's a hell of a lot of corruption at this level. Like at every other level.

Next comes the regional level. Your county territory, parish, or whatever else a state calls it. They address regional issues relevant to their constituents and the state.

Next, the state government.

First, you have state representatives, or legislators, who represent their constituents in districts (often heavily gerrymandered). The districts are technically based on population within a given area, giving residents equal footing with residents of other districts. Or that's how it's supposed to work.

The state senate comes next. Each state senator represents a specific geographic area called a state legislative district. Voters within that district elect a single senator to represent them in the state legislature. Thus giving equal representation to the citizens of their districts. Note that senate districts are larger than representative districts but still heavily gerrymandered.

Finally, we come to the state governor. The governor is basically the president, but at the state level. Election of the governor is one citizen, one vote.

Finally, we come to the Government of the United States of America.

In our system of government (A Representative Democracy), we have three branches. We will not be talking about the United States Supreme Court, as they are not relevant to what I'm laying out.  The Executive branch is tasked with governing the whole nation. it was created, in my opinion, to give America the closest thing possible to a king.

So, let's make this quick. I'm typing with my hands, not my voice, and my knuckles are starting to hurt.

Hirst, The lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives. The house currently has 435 members. Each of them represents a roughly equal number of United States citizens. The states are charged with creating representative districts, and most of them are heavily gerrymandered. The House is supposed to give Americans close to equal representation.

Next comes the Senate, the upper house of Congress. The Senate's job is simple. Give each state, regardless of population, equal representation. Of course, it's arguable that the Senate has the most power in the government sans the Supreme Court. The Senate is as corrupt as corrupt can be.

Finally, there's the President of the United States of America. POTUS is elected via an archaic system designed to make sure free States didn't have more power than Slave States.  In the system, each state has a number of Electoral Votes based on its population as a percentage of the national population.

In those wonderful days, the MAGA Cult and the Christofacists want to take us back to a time when black people were only counted as 3/5ths of a person. Check out the Constitution, it'll blow your mind. Also, check out what women's rights were, and the rights of non-landowners were.

Those were golden days.

While the President is supposed to represent the nation as a whole, over the last 25 years, the presidency has been decided by the Electoral College rather than the popular vote. Millions of Americans have been disenfranchised in those two elections.

And what do you know, both times it was a winger. George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump.

At the executive level, America must be a one-citizen, one-vote system.

No Kings!

- Josh (10-29-2025)