Electoral College Circumvented Part (4) The Last, I hope

The newest wrinkle in the Electoral College debate is an orchestrated move to circumvent it. Now refresh my memory. Was there a spontaneous move by literally thousands of “voters” to urge the electors to be faithless to their commitment in any previous election? The word, “orchestrated” is used because, even though the actual wording varies, the content and context of the calls are identical. Did these disenchanted patriots independently conceive of this strategy? Incidentally, how do they know how to contact the Electors? (See below)

Having failed at electing their chosen leader, someone, somewhere is mobilizing an army to try to circumvent not only the Electoral College, but the will of the people. Remember the Electoral College chooses the President, not the mass of voters. The voters elect the Electors. Consequently the calls to urge a “squirrel” vote, that is one off the track, are calls to repudiate the voters and the Constitution.

Now let’s not comment on their motivation, other than to “get their way” when they have lost the sanctioned contest. But these calls reveal something fundamental about the callers. They are assuming that the Electors share their character flaws.

The Electors are urged to abandon first their commitment. They committed to represent a particular candidate if they were chosen. They have been chosen. They are encouraged to violate the trust of the party who designated them, and the voters who selected them. And finally, the Electors are encouraged to substitute their “judgment” on the suitability for that of the caller. A caller, incidentally, whom they have never met nor interviewed nor evaluated. “Just do what I want.” The betrayal of integrity is massive here.

The pervasive attitude of narcissism and “I want what I want,” and most critically, lack of integrity in our current society, current, and prospective administration has been illustrated in these calls. They are losers, literally and figuratively, (not to be too harsh here) and evidently spoiled babies who invoke the worst of their character and project it on the objects of their interest.

What is next? Will there be calls to Secret Service to stop protecting President-elect Trump? After all, they are just doing their job. Now the protesters are calling on electors to not do their job. To use another metaphor, why not call the Cubs or Cavaliers and ask them to renounce their championship? After all, they just won it in a contest by conforming to the rules. “But I don’t like the outcome.”

I knew this would happen when we let the 10 year olds vote. Wait, we didn’t, did we?

Addendum: The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) makes the following declaration on its web page about the Electoral College.
“Please Note: NCSL does not have the names of the individual presidential electors in each state, nor does NCSL have their contact information. You must contact either your state's election officials or political parties for information.”

So unless thousands of disappointed individuals contacted the election officials in various states, we have ourselves a conspiracy. Or at best a concerted effort by third parties. How does it feel to be manipulated, callers? You are attempting to do the same to your Electors–if indeed you are contacting your own state’s Electors. If other states are involved, it is like complaining about the mayor of Nome, Alaska. (Unless you live there, and voted.) It ain’t none of yer business. But I digress.