The Real Story Behind A Stolen Election: Do We Have Voter Suppression? Or Was The 2020 Presidential Election Stolen As Reported By Some?

  The American Population, in my view, has forgotten the fact our country is not a a democracy. We are a democratic-republic.  There is a difference in our country's founding that made us different from a democracy. Our founding father's did not believe in a democracy.  In fact, we should review what they actually said and ask ourselves why the choose the form of government we have. Their work, the founders believed, was an "Holy Experiment" because, as everyone who had read their Aristotle and Cicero and studied ancient history knew.  It was designed as a republic s – in which political power rests with the people and their representatives – and democracies were historically rare and acutely susceptible to subversion. That subversion came both from within – from decadence, the sapping of public virtue and demagoguery – as well as from monarchies and other enemies abroad. Benjamin Franklyn, in viewing what our continental congress had designed made an important statement the form of government that was chosen for us in 1787.   When asked whether the federal constitution of 1787 established a monarchy or a republic, Benjamin Franklin is famously said to have answered: “A republic, if you can keep it.” His point was that establishing a republic on paper was easy and preserving it the hard part. 

The way our republic was designed to function is that the American people in each state vote for who they want to represent them.  Each state legislators then choose state representatives to go and represent their states voters in an electoral college to cast a vote for president on January 6th every four years.  However,  there is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that requires electors to vote according to the results of the popular vote in their States. Some States, however, require electors to cast their votes according to the popular vote.  It should be noted that whomever the electoral college votes for President is decided by the electoral college and it is not decided by the overall population of the vote nation-wide.  This is the evidence that your form of government is not a democracy - rather it is distinguished as a democratic republic in which our state representatives choose who will be president.   

     Electoral College Makes The Decision Just Because someone gets the popular vote, nationally, does not mean they will become the President.  Who the electoral college votes for according to our form of government is the legitimate President.  This was the case when Al Gore won the popular vote nationally and George W. Bush won the electoral college vote.  The electoral college has the legal right to make this decision - which is why Joe Biden is the legitimate President of the US and Donald Trump was not re-elected. However, the popular vote was made in each state does not determine the outcome of the electoral college - whether we as Americans agree with this or not.   If we want to ensure our state representatives follow through on the popular vote of our state processes then we either have to ensure our state constitutions reflect our wishes and/or write additional language in our Federal Constitution to ensure that our representatives sent to the electoral college do as our states popular vote has decided.  This is where we have to do our work as a people to ensure a fair and equal election.  Again, it is important to point out that we are not a democracy (where a national popular vote determines a Presidential election outcome); we are a democratic republic who's representatives cast their vote supposedly on our behalf.  If our state representatives choose to vote differently than our state's popular vote choices then we have to take the issue up on our state level at this time.

     Why did our founding fathers choose this system of voting?  Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 argued over a lot of things, but one of their biggest debates was over how the United States should elect its president.  Some among the Founding Fathers believed that direct nationwide election by the people would be the most democratic method. Others argued that a straightforward popular vote was unfair, as it would give too much power to larger, more populous states. They also worried that public opinion could be too easily manipulated, and feared direct election might lead to a tyrannical leader determined to grab absolute power for himself. The result of this struggle was the Electoral College, the system by which the American people vote not for president and vice president, but for a smaller group of people, known as electors.

      How are these electors chosen?  “Every state appoints, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.” So, if you are among those who want to change how this electoral process decides our election or amend the federal constitutional design you have a right to do so. However, you have to use the existing system, as it was designed by the founding fathers, to change the laws governing our election process.  This is a matter of fact regardless who you decide to vote for in the upcoming elections - and yes, who the electoral college chooses to be our president is the only legitimate President Of The United States and who we are called to pray for all those in leadership in whatever capacity they serve in government. 

     I Timothy 2:1-2 says it clearly, "I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people, to ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity."