If the Electoral College is a fail-safe system to ensure that a qualified person is selected for the White House, it has a true purpose now. In point of fact, it is a matter of a national emergency.
There have been many feelings and opinions about the Electoral College expressed in recent weeks in the wake of the stealth election of 2016. (See < gregpalast.com > for more information. The Trumpians have delighted in it suddenly. Democrats have bemoaned it.
But under the circumstances, with populism gone awry, there may yet be a way to stop the clearly ethically and morally challenged, demagoguery-practicing Trump from entering the Oval Office. That way is to offer a credible candidate to electors -- someone other than either Clinton or Trump, as the plan now stands.
An alternate way is to demonstrate that several battle-ground states were stolen for Trump, as Jill Stein and Greg Palast are attempting to do.
But unless the stolen election can be proven by early January -- or at least sufficiently earlier than January 20 -- America is about to go down a very dark road indeed. This, however, is totally unnecessary. Let's all use the Internet as it was intended: to disseminate the truth. The dissemination must be rapid if not, indeed, immediate.
The Electoral College: Background and Explanation
There have been many feelings and opinions about the Electoral College expressed in recent weeks in the wake of the stealth election of 2016. (See < gregpalast.com > for more information. The Trumpians have delighted in it suddenly. Democrats have bemoaned it.
But under the circumstances, with populism gone awry, there may yet be a way to stop the clearly ethically and morally challenged, demagoguery-practicing Trump from entering the Oval Office. That way is to offer a credible candidate to electors -- someone other than either Clinton or Trump, as the plan now stands.
An alternate way is to demonstrate that several battle-ground states were stolen for Trump, as Jill Stein and Greg Palast are attempting to do.
But unless the stolen election can be proven by early January -- or at least sufficiently earlier than January 20 -- America is about to go down a very dark road indeed. This, however, is totally unnecessary. Let's all use the Internet as it was intended: to disseminate the truth. The dissemination must be rapid if not, indeed, immediate.
The Electoral College: Background and Explanation
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