Finally, an Epiphany Part II

The reason that the Electoral College is a cultural anomaly for me is because I am part of the group that cares about the outcome of the election and what happens in government. I am also a citizen of the Twenty-First Century. The social ideals that I grew up with were products of society after the gender, racial, and sexual orientation movements of the Nineteen Hundreds which stressed equal rights for all peoples. The Electoral College was not made to represent these social values. It is a system that was meant to distribute ruling and governmental authority equally between the classes of American society. The way of electing the President has not changed since the Seventeen Hundreds because the structure of society is still the same. Whether the Electoral College is just or not, the reasons for its inception, the need to have a place where the vast inequalities and different factions of American society can elect the President, is still applicable in today’s society.

To address the whole rest of my blog that made the argument of the College not being a just system representing the people, it that frightens me is that there is no national law that mandates the way each states’ electors should vote. If there was a national law reiterating the practice of “Winner-Takes-All” then I would believe the Electoral College is a little more just; therefore the voting would not be left up to solely the elector’s conscience. The need to have a place where the inequalities of the nation are put on an equal playing field to discuss the election make the College an enduring part of American politics.