By Nathan Barton
Two movements are currently underway that, if either is successful, will drastically change the way American government functions. For the worse.
I’ve written about one of these: the effort by Democrats in the current Congress to abolish the Electoral College. I believe that the chances of passing such a constitutional amendment are relatively small.
Now, let us consider another nasty movement. It is much farther along that the abolition effort, and with much more progress to date. It not a full frontal attack on the Constitution or its institutions, but rather more oblique, even insidious. And therefore perhaps both more dangerous and more likely to succeed.
One more nail in the coffin
By Nathan Barton
Democrats in Congress have introduced a constitutional amendment that would abolish the Electoral College and elect the President by a direct popular vote.
There is strong evidence that the original American federal republic died a long time ago: 100+ years, in fact. The direct election of senators (rather than having the states each AS A STATE elect their senators) by the people completed the counter-revolution launched by the Lincoln regime a half-century earlier.
This subject came up in comments on the recent commentary about one-party states.
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