The Electoral College should act as it was intended to act as a constitutional safety valve against a hoodwinked population.

Note Hamilton’s words from the Federalist Papers No. 68: “It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.

“It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.”

Even the actual followers of our president-elect have been deceived by the grossly unqualified candidate. The people of this country do not elect their president, the Electoral College does, and it is time for that institution to fulfill it’s constitutional duty and protect us from ourselves.

I am going to look up my list of electors and tell them what I think.

Jim Easton

Oakland

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