Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Where have all the conservatives gone?

The ONLY reason liberals want to get rid of the Electoral College is because Hillary Clinton lost! Had the results of the election been reversed, Trump winning the popular vote but losing in the Electoral College, they would not have anything bad to say about it. Well that's too freaking bad! Changing the rules after they cost you the election is not how a representative democracy works.

Our Founding Fathers knew that people of virtue would not always be in our government.

"Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it." George Washington
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." James Madison

That those comments were made shows that the members of the Constitutional Convention did not create the Electoral College with the idea of it being protection against unqualified people from becoming our President.

The reason that the quality of people in our government has declined is not due to the failure of anything our Founding Fathers did. We have people running our government who aren't qualified to run a small business. They are there because we have stopped doing what we should be doing. What we should be doing is reverse these numbers, the approval rating and reelection rate for members of Congress. Currently Congress has an approval rating of about 11% and a reelection rate of 95%.

Another reason the Electoral College did not fail is due how we look to whoever is the President to fix our country while we keep reelecting incompetent idiots to Congress. Congress run is supposed to run our country not our current President. How can any President, regardless of party, fix problems in four to eight years that the idiots in Congress who are, or have been, there for decades? It can't be done! Our Presidents are not the cause of what is wrong with America, WE ARE!