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That would be the smart thing to do. Don't count on it.

PFC David Foster - Dear David, Unfortunately these types of circumstances are becoming less and less rare as Speaker Pelosi, Senator Schumer, and President Biden are attempting extra-Constitutional measures involving vaccination mandates, bans against evictions from privately-owned housing, altering voting procedures in both Houses of Congress, and filing unjust lawsuits against several states which are operating within their constitutional limits, e.g., Florida and Texas. President Biden has also just announced that he will attempt to cut off 19 states from receiving monoclonal antibodies for use in COVID 19 TREATMENT. Amazingly enough, all of those states he wants to penalize are run by Republican governors. So, our wonderful President is weaponizing COVID 19 treatment as an instrument of political competition. There is no justification for any of that, none.

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - I agree with you on the vaccine mandates, I see that the same as abortion, individuals should have the right to choose what goes in or come out of our bodies... about the rent thing, these are special circumstances which even Trump put in place to protect our citizens in a pandemic, and about voting, I will personally be happy when someday, we will all be able to vote from our computers in the comfort of our homes.... I do wish they would do away with the whole electoral college vote thing, it seems to throw out the balance of one person, one vote thing..... Nice chat sir, I believe we are probably a lot closer on more issues than would appear on the surface... good luck sir....

The only reasons that we have the United States that exists today are basically two: 1) The Electoral College. In the early days of our country, the small states feared that they would be overlooked and dominated by the large states (Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia) in constructing the Constitution and in national elections. The Electoral College meant that every state's vote would be important in the Presidential Election. 2) The U.S. Senate. Although the House is based on population, every state gets two Senators. This prevents a few populous states from running over everyone else in crafting legislation and serves to moderate the legislative process.
If anything, these reasons are today more compelling than ever. Without the Electoral College, the coastal mega-cities on the East and West Coasts would choose the President virtually every year, and the rest of us would well and truly live in "fly-over country," enslaved to the "Welfare Empire" forever.
Pure democracy in which the citizenry directly votes on legislation (like the California Proposition system) is mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie. If the citizenry wanted to, they could vote that any left-handed person could not hold office, for example. Thankfully we have individual protections (in the Bill of Rights) and protections for the relevance of every state's votes via the Electoral College.
With regards to computerized voting, how do we ensure that illegal aliens, disenfranchised citizens (e.g., convicted felons) and unregistered people don't vote? I've served as an elections office in my county for 15 years, and it's hard enough to verify voter identity even with a photo ID requirement. If anyone could vote from their home computer without having to prove their identity and eligibility, we would face never-ending election fraud. The computer systems, commercial, governmental and educational nation-wide are absolutely prone to hacking and spoofing. Avoiding election fraud means a home computer should not be used as a means of voting until there is true security and a means of verifying identity and eligibility. Those things don't now exist.

MAJ Hugh Blanchard - You make a good point, but even so, I want my vote to count exactly equally to every other person, one person, one vote, I don't think it should matter where you live..... to each his own thought... majority rule.... and as that famous news broadcaster used to say; "and that's the way it is". God, wouldn't it be nice to have some broadcasters like the late great Walter Cronkite today. State the facts and hold the bull.... Have a good weekend.... good debate!