There have been a number of posts lately on social media about the movement (or whatever it is) to abolish the Electoral College. This idea, unfortunately, has been promoted nationally by people who should have enough education or civics IQ to know better.
I’m not worried about this actually happening, since doing so would require an amendment to the Constitution. Two-thirds (or more) of the states would lose influence in national elections were the EC abolished, so I can’t see any such amendment getting through the Senate, let alone to voting for ratification.
I am concerned, though, that there are enough people that don’t understand the benefits and wisdom of the EC system, such that it has become an actual discussion/movement/whatever in the first place.
Also, it is absurd to me that abolishing the EC has been given attention, and even promoted by, former Democrat candidates for president (lookin’ at you, Liz Warren, Kamala Harris, and Francis “Look! I know the F word!” “My Daddy Calls Me ‘Beto'” O’Rourke!) Democrat voters in agriculture-producing states, at a minimum, should be HORRIFIED that this uninformed and dangerous notion would even be considered by someone at the top of their ticket.
It’s one thing to court low-education voters. It’s another thing to court them by weaponizing their ignorance against them.