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RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I thought, you\u2019re the guru of all things that I can\u2019t explain to my Millennials, because I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a downside to those theories.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I would love to know… I\u2019m gonna have to ask to hold on through the break at the top of the hour, because before I answer this, I need to know what you\u2019re telling them that they are rejecting, that they\u2019re not believing about the purpose of the Electoral College, and then we\u2019ll get into your theory there. But can you hang on?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I sure can. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good. We\u2019ll take a brief time-out here, folks, and delve into this back.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Gonna go back to Lynn in Noblesville, Indiana. You still there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Let me recast this, and you correct me if I get anything wrong. She has four kids, among them some Millennials — old enough to be Millennials — and they have been questioning the value of Electoral College. Why doesn\u2019t the popular vote matter? It seems like that ought to be the way we elect the president, not state by state. They came up with an idea that we would apportion states like we do in primaries. In the Republican primary, if Trump wins a state, he gets whatever percentage of the delegates in that state according to the vote he got and so forth and so on. Because that would make every state count, you say. <\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I think it\u2019s got more to do with the fact that they\u2019re bombarded with a lot of their friends in an education system and a media system that doesn\u2019t give them the actual historical facts. What I have been telling them is the purpose of the Electoral College as the Founding Fathers had put it together, was designed to make sure that heavily populated areas did not overwhelm the more rural areas or the needs of people who didn\u2019t live in densely populated portions of the country.<\/p>\n And that in doing so, it ensured that everyone had a say regardless of your demographic and that the possibility of voter fraud or rigging the elections… Because they would never know where to target because they didn\u2019t have to… You know, they had to worry about everybody, was the main concept that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they made the Electoral College a part of our election process.<\/p>\n RUSH: All right, and your kids rejected that because they…?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, they don\u2019t understand why the popular vote doesn\u2019t matter. Especially, as I said, I think it\u2019s more the bombardment of the media and how they\u2019re making it sound.<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, there\u2019s no question. But the reason the media and the bombardment of their friends is able to work is that when they were in middle school, they weren\u2019t taught about the founding of America.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right!<\/p>\n RUSH: They weren\u2019t taught about the Founding Fathers. They weren\u2019t taught about the concept of federalism. You can\u2019t understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it\u2019s currently applied. The word “federalism” you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact opposite, in fact. It means the states are sovereign and the federal government cannot tell \u2019em what to do in so many different ways. <\/p>\n But I think you are very close with your assessment of population centers. The founders did not want population centers to dictate to the rest of the country. They had already seen that happen in Europe in their day, and they had seen the kind of people that gravitate toward various areas. I mean, even in the early days of the country when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. <\/p>\n The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of the country. The reason for its founding… I mean, some people would even tell you that the Electoral College was established to protect the country from the votes of a bunch of ignoramuses and people uninformed out in the sticks who didn\u2019t know what they were doing. I mean, there were people even tell you that that was one of the original thought processes involved in establishing the Electoral College.<\/p>\n CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n RUSH: But it is a way of having a flat-out popular election without calling it that. If you didn\u2019t do this — if you didn\u2019t have the Electoral College — we would be at the mercy of how state legislatures draw their electoral districts, and we would have electoral districts drawn strictly for the purposes of winning presidential elections and not for the purposes of state and local representation.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: But the short answer to this is almost identical to why every state has two senators but a different number of members of the House based on population, and it is to make sure that there is equal representation across the board. There are some states based on population that would not even have a senator, if the Senate were not established the way that it is. Some practical examples. If the popular vote elected the president today, two states —<\/p>\n CALLER: California and New York. Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n RUSH: — California and New York — would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n People that live in the Northeast are leaving the Northeast for a whole host of reasons. They\u2019re relocating in Southern states and Midwestern states — no-income-tax states, milder climate states — and it\u2019s affecting the balance of power in those states. North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it\u2019s a battleground state. The Electoral College guards against all of this. The Electoral College protects state sovereignty. It actually is one of the most brilliantly conceived electoral mechanisms ever. Let me ask you a question here, Lynn.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n RUSH: We are not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that — and most people don\u2019t. We are a representative republic. We\u2019re not a direct democracy.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right. Correct.<\/p>\n RUSH: And most people don\u2019t know that, particularly young people. They think we\u2019re democracy. Tell your kids this. “If we lived in a democracy, if this house were a democracy and…?” How many are in your house?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, currently three, but I have one in the Navy.<\/p>\n RUSH: Let\u2019s pretend six people live in your house.<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: And you propose that only four people get to eat every day, and you put it to a vote. If four people vote that only four people get to eat, two people don\u2019t, that prevails. That\u2019s what a democracy is. It\u2019s strictly majority-minority rule. We do not have that. We have what\u2019s called a representative republic.<\/p>\n CALLER: Correct. Well, so what would be…? For the people that are, you know, petitioning and complaining that we need to go to popular vote — and I understand the Electoral College — what would be the benefit or the possibility of, as I said, doing the Electoral College based on the number of votes, the percentage of votes an individual candidate received? For example, Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes.<\/p>\n RUSH: Because it would dilute the power of the states. The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College —<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: — and if you\u2019re going to start divvying up the power of each state\u2019s elections, you are destroying state sovereignty. You cannot —<\/p>\n CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n RUSH: You cannot, in a national election… It\u2019s not a primary. <\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: It\u2019s a national election. You can\u2019t apportion votes that way because you are causing the state to lose power. It\u2019s a dilution of the state\u2019s sovereignty and power. What I was gonna ask you is this.<\/p>\n CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n RUSH: Let\u2019s take… Without getting into arguments, Hillary Clinton appears to have won this election by… Not won the election. She has appeared to garner two million more votes than Donald Trump, right?<\/p>\n RUSH: Could you explain to me why is there not a national outrage over this that Hillary won? Why is it only just a few people? Why is it only just a few pockets of the media? Why is it a very small minority of people running around complaining about this? You would think that if somebody won an election by two million votes, that there would be a national outrage over it and that Hillary would be demanded to be declared the winner, that people would think they\u2019re being scammed left and right. But that\u2019s not happening. Why? “Why do people accept the Electoral College?” is the question. Why do they accept it?<\/p>\n CALLER: I think there are enough currently that understand the importance of it. My concern is that as this new Millennial generation moves forward, not totally understanding the premise and the protections that the Electoral College provides, that ultimately in future generations they\u2019ll try to dismantle it without being aware —<\/p>\n RUSH: Look, that\u2019s always a risk in a free society.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019ve been worried about that my whole life, that the left is gonna rip apart everything that makes this country what it is, as they have been trying for the last eight years and even longer.<\/p>\n CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n RUSH: And the reason they\u2019ve gotten as far as they did is because young people haven\u2019t been taught. Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. It\u2019s just… You can spot it a mile away, their ignorance. And it\u2019s coupled with they think they\u2019re the only people that know. They\u2019re arrogant. They\u2019re a little bit smarmy about what they think they know and nobody else does, which is a characteristic of young people anyway. I was that way when I was young.<\/p>\n CALLER: (chuckles) Well, I\u2019ve seen our daughter that\u2019s studying ministry. She has seen it. She\u2019s the youngest of our children, and she sees it now because she sees it from a true conservative and a better understanding instead of all the hype. But I also see my daughter that\u2019s in the Navy who lives in California — I\u2019m so sorry (chuckles) — that has moved more towards the Bernie Sanders socialism. Even though she understands that socialism can\u2019t work in a population like the United States. Even though she understands that, you know, governments like Denmark don\u2019t support their own military. They rely on us so they have more social programs.<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay, then wait. Why does she support…? If she knows it doesn\u2019t work, why does she support it?<\/p>\n CALLER: She\u2019s overwhelmed in that demographic in California with the “social consciousness” that\u2019s supposed to be so prevalent. That\u2019s the only way I know to say it. That\u2019s what I hear from all these kids.<\/p>\n RUSH: No, it\u2019s exactly right. She knows it doesn\u2019t work and yet supports it. The answer is psychological.<\/p>\n CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n RUSH: She wants to love herself. She wants to feel good. She thinks if she doesn\u2019t support socialism, people will think she doesn\u2019t have a heart, that she doesn\u2019t care about other people. So she knows it doesn\u2019t work, but it\u2019s more important for her to be seen by people as somebody who cares and has the proper compassion than to do what she knows works and what doesn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TrumpFlagWest-Palm-FLA-101316.jpg\"\/)
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<\/a>CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed — and deployed, actually — on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created droves and droves of people that vote against what they know is right, vote against their own self-interest, in exchange for feeling good about themselves and also being immune from criticism. Don\u2019t discount that part of this, too. There\u2019s a lot of factors in this. (sigh) I think the root of this is like anything — or the solution to this.<\/p>\n![](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TrumpWinning.jpg\"\/)
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