The "Urban SuperState" and the Electoral College

This is a very dangerous time for America. Since the 2016 Presidential Election we have heard strident calls for doing away with the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a protective mechanism that prevents the populations of the most highly populated states from controlling the nation’s powers and ignoring the interests of others in the vast territory of the United States with a highly diverse population.  Allowing the allocation of political power to be made as if America were a single state rather than a union of fifty states destroys the principles of federalism that provide the foundation of the Constitution and would empower a collection of ten very large US metropolitan areas acting in lockstep on a very limited set of issues to impose their will on everyone else in our diverse nation.  This is precisely what the Electoral College helps to avoid.

As divided as the electoral map of America looks when broken down into a Red State/Blue State picture after the 2016 presidential election, that doesn’t begin to tell the full story about how fractured the nation has become.  An “Urban SuperState” has emerged capable of controlling much of the nation’s agenda and disenfranchising citizens who live in over 90 percent of the nation’s states and localities. The thought that ten to twelve urban metropolitan areas including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Detroit, Cleveland and Columbus, Seattle, and Baltimore (city and county) could dictate their agendas to the rest of the country if they were able to eliminate the Electoral College is offensive to the point I need a “safe space”.  Fortunately I have one. It is called the Electoral College.