In starker terms, Hamilton was saying that his system wasn't intended to ensure that the presidency would go to the highest vote-getter; it was designed to ensure that idiots wouldn't have the ultimate say as to who gets to be president.
Hamilton's view helps explain the system's built-in capacity to circumvent democracy's essence by making it possible for the winner of the popular vote to be the loser of the election. Here, however, in this saga of Trump winning the presidency -- based on electoral votes -- we are presented with the tale of a system designed to keep idiots from putting an ignorant, unqualified person in the White House that wound up doing just the opposite.
All the smart, truly thoughtful Americans voted for Hillary. But it was the idiots who put Trump over the top --- with TWO MILLION-plus fewer votes than his vanquished opponent.
I think that if Alexander Hamilton were alive today, he'd be experiencing a nauseating and mind-numbing headache.
Emanating directly from his pineal gland.
(Article changed on December 1, 2016 at 15:14)
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