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 Alex
Clippinger
Park Hill
High School
"Should the Electoral College Be Abolished?"
The question presented is not only whether to rid ourselves of the Electoral
College, but also whether we want Presidential elections to be based on a system
of pure democracy, where the popular vote holds sway. When one considers the
question adequately, the answer to both of them is obviously no.
In a country that is so evenly divided between two political ideals, a popular
vote is not popular at all. If elections were won by vast margins, the concept
of ‘eliminating the middle man’ would be perfectly reasonable. But United States
Presidential elections are consistently won by a few percent at most, meaning
that a single person could decide the next leader of our nation. The Electoral
College is designed specifically to avoid those issues.
Pure democracy is not an ideal government, and the abolishment of the Electoral
College would be the first step on a long road to that end. Pure democracy is
not a government of reason; it is the rule of the mob. Mob rule nearly toppled
Athens, and it hung ever over the citizen of Rome. It is the policy of passion.
And in the aesthetically obsessed world in which we live today, it should be our
last choice in choosing future leaders.
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