Electoral Colleges

Ursus versus Chongo

Electoral Colleges

Only Big Matters

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

            Sometimes, I wonder if Benny Peiser wears spurs or a cowboy hat.

Dr. Peiser runs the Global Warming Policy Foundation and his newsletter and invitations to come listen to a stray Lord or commoner-sense commoner lecture about the Fabians who currently use the frayed and tattered subject of global warming are always better than a cup of Hermosillo java for a morning lift. Not to be underwhelmed by the stray subject of polar bears, his latest invite caught my attention.

No, it wasn’t the matter of the bears themselves and the infanticide carried out by overabundant he bears protected by the slime green crews that was the flag. It was the sister communities of northern Canada who actually share boundary issues with their under amped counterparts way down here on the southern border at Animas and Rodeo, New Mexico.

Only Big Matters

It seems there are numbers of small communities ringing the Canadian north that scream about the danger overabundant polar bears become when the ice is out and big Ursus maritimus cross the boundary of water and land and come ashore. In their case, the drug cartels are absence, but their tag team counterparts are certainly there dictating policy and managing the message to the world.

The environmental cartels are front and center.

That message, swallowed by the Americans and other Arctic bounded counterparts, is that global warming is causing demise of the big bear through the diminishment of his food sources. On the other hand, Canadian wildlife officials and scientists like Susan Crockford suggest everybody take a deep breath, look at the actual numbers, and realize why the testicle packers are eating their young in the summer months.

When the ice is out, their natural food sources are also out and overly abundant big males are caught, literally and on camera, eating their defenseless young. In response, the practical local support says, “Shoot ‘em!” while the environmental mobs, whose closest contact with a natural world is their relationship with a cousin’s dog, cry foul, send more money to protect the eaters, and demand attention through their campaign and cause checks.

The outcome is no different on the southern border.

The matter of ayes has consequences. When there are more ayes than there are nays, the ayes have it! Don’t think it was any different when the framers debated the subject in Philadelphia or in statehouses across the colonial landscape. Why on earth would small states agree to hitch their wagon to a train that would dictate every condition of life by the big, the urban, the elites, the cartels, or the benefactors of the Crown by allowing their vote to go head to head with the rest?

The Electoral College is the only remaining protection for small states standing in juxtaposition with the large and most influential states. For that matter, the Electoral College is the only protection of the greater number of states in defense against the ten most populated counties in the country!

Remember, there is no longer any true protector of states’ rights because the Senate appointments were affectively taken from the states in the 17^th Amendment and deeded to ever evolving, crusading mobs. It has impacted us much more than we can imagine. Our country has lost the genius of a bicameral congress whereby the popular vote resulted in the citizenry’s representatives in the House of Representatives and the state legislators appointed true, vested protectors of states’ rights in the Senate. The result is two chambers of popular vote controlled by an increasingly distant mob of radical issue driven voters.

 Indeed, the polar bear threatened communities of northern Canada and the drug threatened southern border communities of America face the same dilemma. The citizenry doesn’t carry enough weight to make an impression much less effectively manage its own destiny.

Electoral Colleges

The plural form of the subheading was intended.

Any rural resident who makes his or her living in any extractive industry knows full well the consequences of an urban juggernaut of voters who have nothing at risk in decisions out in the hinterlands. Consider the rural issues of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. There is the wolf, the Arizona water settlement, illegal immigration, biosecurity, teetering and decreasing tax base, expanding polarity of the young and the old in the general population, 2^nd Amendment threats, drugs, and ever expanding, restrictive federal land designations that make it increasingly difficult to make a living much less offer a future for the younger generations.

As a result, the outcome of vote choices is increasingly in conflict with the urban centers.

In the heated debates leading up to the signing of the Constitution, the same inherent fears were in the forefront. If left unresolved, there would be no approval by the states to adopt the document much less agree to enter the Union of American States. Through conciliation, factors of mitigation arose to resolve the fears of crushing control by the big states. States, and more specifically states’ rights, would be protected by equal representation in the Senate, and the Electoral College would moderate the will of the large states over the small states in the election of the nation’s chief executive officer.

The former is now lost to us, and the latter is the only standard left in the defense of full tyranny. Simply, if the Electoral College is taken from us, all remaining freedoms are in full jeopardy.

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “What many now recognize is this same condition of dominion has long existed within states. In Arizona and New Mexico, four counties control and elect national leaders. The other 44 simply tag along and either agree or disagree with the big sisters. What makes it worse is the bank vaults of the political parties also reside in the four largest counties and those funds are increasingly used to manage votes in the less powerful counties.”