Virginia has just joined 17 other States and the District of Columbia in attempting to subvert the will of the people. They has passed legislation awarding their electoral college delegates to the winner of the popular vote nationwide, regardless of who the voters of the State vote for. In other words, a vast majority of voters in a State may vote for Republicans but its delegates will vote for Democrats if the Democrats win the popular vote nationwide. The electoral college was instituted to prevent a few large population States from determining the election. Candidates have to win a majority of the States. It is even more important today with widespread attempts to corrupt the ballot box. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote against Trump by a very slim margin, only because she won heavily in California. She lost in every other State in the union, including many States controlled by Democrats. It is now known that millions of illegal immigrants in California were registered to vote and many of them voted. They alone could have pushed her over to win the popular vote. If so, she would have become President based on millions of illegal votes, but was prevented by the Electoral College. California, New York, and Minnesota alone harbor millions of illegal immigrants and are known for their corruption in elections. The Electoral College is needed to prevent the corruption in a few States from undermining the will of the people.
Posts Tagged ‘Voting’
Voting-A-E
I look at the facts and find it hard to grasp how anyone who looks at the facts can believe anything that the liberal media says. Unfortunately our schools have discouraged students from questioning what they are told and conditioned them to accept the answers they are given. Strong control of our social and public media has allowed them to peddle a continuous stream of lies and distorted truth while censoring the facts to promote everything from abortion and gender confusion to climate change fears. They have been able to push through a multitude of irrational policies by pushing emotional arguments and shutting down debate in the public forum and in our universities. It is important to study the issues and the facts to make rational decisions if we are to pull our nation out of the downward spiral it is in. I taught Sociology in college for several years and have tried to pull together a comprehensive study of the major issues we face in government, economics, immigration, health, education, and welfare to aid in serious discussion of the issues we face today. Liberals have tried to shut down discussion because they know their programs are based solely on emotions and cannot withstand exposure to the facts. In addition, I have tried to bring together a serious study of the values that made America great and how they are being eroded by liberal values.
Voting-I-BA
Apportionments for the House of Representatives is based on the total resident population of the fifty States. The total number of representatives has been set at 441. 435 from the 50 States and one from the District of Columbia and each of the five US territories. It is reapportioned after every Census count to ensure everyone’s vote is equal Liberals claim the illegal immigrants should be counted because they are losing population as residents flee the State and they are replacing them with illegal immigrants to maintain their representation in the House. Conservatives feel that it unfairly gives Congressional seats to liberal States and deprives legal voters of representation since the immigrants are not here legally. Since the delegates are apportioned by population to give equal voting power to everyone, counting illegal immigrants, who can’t vote, in apportioning seats, gives voters in liberal States more voting power than conservative States. If a representative is assigned to every one million people, and all people are counted, a conservative State with one million legal residents and no illegal residents gets one representative representing one million voters but a liberal State with one million legal residents and one million illegal immigrants totaling two million people gets two representatives, one that represents the one million voters, and one that represents the one million illegal immigrants, who can’t legally vote.
Voting-I-AZ
The members of the House of Representatives are reapportioned after each Census to ensure that each Representative represents approximately an equal number of voters. Since illegal immigrants cannot vote legally, it was felt they should not be included in the Census. Liberals claim that the Founding Fathers wanted everyone counted, not just voters and refer to the 1787 Compromise where they allowed slaves to be counted as three fifths for the Census. The Continental Congress was debating the apportionment of taxes for each State which was determined by population. The Northern States wanted the slaves counted as part of the population so the Southern States would pay their fair share but the Southern States didn’t want them counted in order to reduce their taxes. They finally reached a compromise where the slaves would be counted as three fifths of a person. Indians were excluded from the count until 1860 when those living off the reservations were counted and in 1900, they began counting Indians on the reservations. The Census was also used to determine seats in the House of Representatives and the electoral college. The Census counted every resident except foreign nationals visiting or temporarily working in the United States. The fact that they did not count foreign nationals temporarily working in the United States indicated they were only counting legal residents, and not counting those who were not legally residents. Since illegal immigrants are not American citizens, they are still citizens of their home country. The 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on all residents born in the United States or naturalized. Liberals claim that nothing in the Constitution precludes counting non-citizens in the Census, however since illegal immigrants are not born here or naturalized, they are not covered by the 14th Amendment and are not counted as citizens until they become naturized citizens.
Voting-2-A-D
Voters today often vote for the man and what he promises to give them and ignore the issues that effect their everyday lives. One of those issues is the issue of law and order. There are three views towards law and order that candidates are pushing today. The first two assume that law and order is necessary for the preservation of an orderly society. The first and traditional American view is that our rights are given by God and He has given us laws that benefit everyone. Our Constitution included those rights and our government was designed in such a way that there were checks and balances to prevent the government from violating those rights. The most important right is the right to elect officials and replace them if they don’t represent the views that the voters support. They founded the Republican party and fought to abolish slavery and fight for the rights of minorities and women, particularly the right to vote. The second is a growing belief that feels that either God doesn’t exist or that He is not involved in our everyday life but feel those values are common sense and should be respected. They respect the Constitution but see it as a man-made document subject to change as circumstances change. They are easily swayed by media rhetoric and deceitful politicians who pretend to support those values but work to undermine them. They tend to switch parties based on their impression of the persons running for office. The third involves those who seek to control others for their own benefit and a growing number of supporters who believe that the leaders are smarter than the average person and know what is best for everyone, whether the people agree or not. It grew out of the Southern aristocrats who supported the subjection of Black slaves and poor Whites who they felt were unable to govern themselves. They founded the Democrat party to protect slavery and maintain their control. While they proclaim to care about the average person and make big public displays of helping people, their actions often do more harm then good.
MAGA-A-G
The members of the House of Representatives are reapportioned after each Census to ensure that each Representative represents approximately an equal number of voters. Since illegal immigrants cannot vote legally, it was felt they should not be included in the Census. Liberals claim that the Founding Fathers wanted everyone counted, not just voters and refer to the 1787 Compromise where they allowed slaves to be counted as three fifths for the Census. The Continental Congress was debating the apportionment of taxes for each State which was determined by population. The Northern States wanted the slaves counted as part of the population so the Southern States would pay their fair share but the Southern States didn’t want them counted in order to reduce their taxes. They finally reached a compromise where the slaves would be counted as three fifths of a person. Indians were excluded from the count until 1860 when those living off the reservations were counted and in 1900, they began counting Indians on the reservations. The Census was also used to determine seats in the House of Representatives and the electoral college The Census counted every resident except foreign nationals visiting or temporarily working in the United States. The 14th Amendment conferred citizenship on all residents born in the United States or naturalized and nothing in the Constitution precludes counting non-citizens in the Census. Apportionments for the House of Representatives is based on the total resident population of the fifty States. The total number of representatives has been set at 441. 435 from the 50 States and one from the District of Columbia and each of the five US territories. Liberals claim the illegal immigrants should be counted because they are losing population as residents flee the State and are replacing them with illegal immigrants who will vote for Democrats I return for being allowed to stay. Conservatives feel that it unfairly gives Congressional seats to liberal States and deprives legal voters of representation since the immigrants are not here legally. It was designed to give equal representation to all but it is not equal representation if two districts have the same population but one has very few voters because most are illegal and can’t vote legally.
Voting-3-A
To make a valid decision on what to do about the current situation, a voter must also know how things work and what has worked or not worked in the past. Education is important. Liberals today discount history and focus on the present. They support what they call situation ethics. You look at the present situation and make a determination. Yet that determination requires some idea of how things work and what works and doesn’t work or it is meaningless guessing. Too often lately the news has come out with statements on an event that later prove false because they didn’t have all the facts. They ran with the story because it fit their agenda. The abortion issue is a perfect example. Before Roe vs Wade, the majority of people opposed abortion because most people assumed it was a baby from conception but the number opposing it has dropped as they are told we don’t know if it is. Many kids know about sex from sex education classes but do not understand conception and the baby’s development in the womb. Women are led to believe it is not a baby until just before birth. Once a woman sees an ultrasound showing her the baby in her is fully formed, most women reject abortions. In addition, those supporting abortion concentrate on the fact that they want to help a poor girl in distress but few people understand that she is in distress because sex education taught her to have sex but did not tell her about the consequences of it. It implies that she can have sex without worrying about getting pregnant because contraceptives prevent it and abortion takes care of any accidents. Good girls used to avoid sex outside marriage because of the disgrace of unwanted pregnancy, but after Roe vs Wade, many felt free to engage in it because their sex education classes fail to tell her about the high failure rate of contraceptives and the fact that abortion is not as safe as they are told. An abortion can have serious consequences physically and emotionally. It is the same with many issues today. The schools teach names and dates and either don’t teach the consequences or twist them to support their agenda so voters cannot make educated decisions about policies they want their representatives to pursue. As a result, voters must educate themselves. In addition, liberal politicians are often not open about the policies they support or proclaim support for policies the people want but then vote the opposite.
Politics-AB-AJ
To pick a candidate effectively, a voter must know the problems we face, have a good idea on how to fix it and pick a candidate that will do what needs to be done. That requires that they know what the situation is. Voters today are hampered by big media that distorts the news to fit their agenda. When they were debating abortion, the media bombarded us with stories of future starvation as we faced out of control population growth and a food supply that could not keep up in spite of the fact that the birthrate was in a downward spiral and was on the edge of dropping below the level needed to sustain it. In addition, advances in food production were such that farmers faced massive food storage problems in spite of shipping tons overseas to other countries, providing low income families with food stamps so they could get food free, and paying farmers to not till land to cut food production. They were piling it in fields and burning it because they had no room to store it. If you don’t understand the problem you can’t decide on a good solution. You need to go to reliable sources and look at both sides. Planned Parenthood will tell you why they believe you should support abortion and which candidates support it while Right-To-life will tell you why you should oppose it and which candidates oppose it. There are reliable organizations that publish information on other issues and some which publish the candidate’s position on a number of issues as well such as the League of Women Voters. It is important to research the issues and the candidates in order to get representatives that support your views and will carry out your will. I have researched the issues and published study courses which detail the various issues as unbiased as possible to help those seeking to make informed choices, but you need to examine both sides and make up your own mind.
Politics-AB-AI
AB-AI Many States are already gearing up for the primary elections. Many people skip the primaries or vote casually without a lot of concern for who wins. They think one is as good as the other. That is generally true for Democrats who are pressured to vote for things the party supports and against what it opposes, because they are supported by big money interests such as Planned Parenthood who dictate how they vote, regardless of the feelings of their constituents. That is not as true for Republicans who rely on party members for support and are more influenced by community values. Yet the primaries dictate who will be on the ballot in November. If you don’t agree with who you elect in the primaries, you don’t get to pick a second choice in November. We are seeing an increasing number of people who say they don’t agree with either candidate in November. It takes work to locate what candidates stand for but it is much better than suffering through the results of legislation pushed through that supports causes you don’t believe in. You won’t agree with everything a politician supports but you should at least agree with their major values, You have an obligation to let him know how you feel on an issue when you disagree with his stand. If he hears from enough constituents, he may change his vote. You can’t go on what they say, you have to look at their record of how they voted in the past. They can say anything they want while campaigning but the bills they vote for tell what they support and that is in the public record. A candidate may say they oppose abortion but if they vote for funding for abortion, you know they support it. If he gets in and doesn’t vote the way you wanted, you have an obligation to vote him out and replace him with someone better. Too many voters don’t pay attention to how their representative votes. They go on reelecting him and he goes on padding his pockets because he knows he can still get reelected. The problems in Minnesota, California, New York and many other States, as well as many major cities didn’t pop up overnight, they have been going on for years. However, residents of those States have continued to reelect the same corrupt politicians because they either aren’t paying attention, don’t care, or the election process in their State is so corrupted that the party in power overrules them.