Here’s an idea on how to replace the Electoral College. This election system starts much the same way as the current one does, with each party holding a primary to select a candidate. But once these candidates are selected they go before what I call, the Billionaire College. This would consist of the nine richest Americans on some predetermined date. They would be the ones to choose the next President.
So what are the pros of this idea? Well, as things stand now, candidates spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars – a sizable portion of which is supplied by the members of the BC – to try to convince us peons that they deserve our votes. All the annoying ads you skip, mailers you throw away, and all the countless speeches would be pointless. It wouldn’t eliminate, but would drastically cut the number of arguments around the Thanksgiving table. And what could be more American than some shyster selling overpriced garbage to raise the money to gain political power?
What are the cons to this idea? Well, the naïve view that every person should have a voice in choosing their government. I guess that’s a “nice” idea, but it’s not like we live by that now. From aggressive voter purges, to long lines on Election Day, to cutting early voting or voting by mail to make the lines even longer, there are factions in this country trying to take voting away from the “peons” and too few people care. Maybe we should stop ignoring that we live in an oligarchy and just go all in.
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