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Since I don’t understand what President Trump says or Tweets most of the time, I certainly cannot understand why people voted for him. At least enough people voted for him in 2016 to sway the Electoral College, even though he lost the Popular Vote.

However, I do have a vague idea what are not motivating factors in voting for him.

FOR EXAMPLE, NOBODY VOTED FOR HIM FOR BEING HONEST.


Both Politifact and the Washington Post have cited thousands of out-and-out whoppers he has attempted to pass as the truth. (I would give you an exact number, but it changes by the minute.). Trump just dismisses those who point out his lies as part of a giant conspiracy to dethrone him. He seldom, if ever, presents any evidence showing he told the truth, which leads me to believe he knows he’s a liar and doesn’t care.

NOBODY VOTED FOR TRUMP FOR BEING WELL-INFORMED.

In addition, Trump does not like to read. He has said so numerous times, so I will take him at his word. But he could be lying. I doubt he has ever read the stories he objects to and claims have been created by the “fake media” or the “lamestream media” which he says are run by “the enemy of the people.”

NOBODY VOTED FOR TRUMP FOR BEING IN POSSESSION OF AN ASTUTE INTELLECT WITH A GREAT BUSINESS MIND.

He has declared business bankruptcy several times, has a history of not paying his bills, has had problems getting credit, and has had his casinos go bust. But even bookies don’t seem to go broke, and with all available mathematical expectations, how does a casino go broke? The only way I see that a casino can go broke is if the owners really work at it. Or have a really big laundry bill.

NOBODY VOTED FOR TRUMP FOR BEING A CARING AND COMPASSIONATE MAN.

People who are caring and compassionate do not rip children from their mothers’ arms, tell citizens to go back to the countries from which their families hail, claim White supremacists are decent folks, incite people to attack others by offering to pay their legal fees if they are arrested for it, call immigrants to the United States rapists and murderers, secretly pay off former illicit lovers, laugh about grabbing women’s crotches, and the list could go on. And on. And on.

NOBODY VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WOULD STAND UP TO OUR ENEMIES.

The only two people who seem to agree the Russians didn’t attempt to sway our elections and destroy American Democracy are Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

Despite Trump’s self-proclaimed love affair with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Trump has obtained nothing from the North Koreans besides their threat of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles pointed our way. He also has gained the ire of South Korea by cancelling joint U.S.-South Korea war games, leaving South Korea with the disconcerting idea that we might not defend them.

Nor has Trump been particularly kind to our friends. The list here is too long to mention but suffice to say it includes nearly every nation on Earth except our enemies. His policies on immigration have even upset the Pope, no easy job.

NOBODY VOTED FOR TRUMP FOR BEING A GOOD FAMILY MAN.

The stories here range from paying off porn queens to partying with child molesters. The actions are too legion and too smarmy to mention here.

WHY DID PEOPLE VOTE FOR TRUMP?

Since his sins, faults, and lack of integrity are open and notorious — so much so that even I know of them — one must wonder if I am wrong and people did vote for him for the above reasons. But I prefer to see America’s Better Angels and conclude we are above that.

The simple truth is the U.S. political system has a major flaw called the Electoral College that allows a minority candidate to win the Presidency.

IT IS TIME TO ELIMINATE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

At the time of its creation, slavery was rampant in less populous agricultural Southern states, and a compromise was needed to help those states maintain a semblance of power. The purpose of the Electoral College was to allow Southern states to hang onto slavery as long as possible. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Trump won the former slave states. Trump then managed to hold onto a few “swing states”, which could have come out in favor of a Republican or a Democrat, by carefully recruiting what the Reagan people called the “Bubba Vote” (White, non-college-educated men), and Presto! a minority candidate won the Presidency.

For Democracy to survive, we must eliminate the Electoral College. Now.

Mike Bowler

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