Why You Should Not Use Your Electoral College Vote For Donald Trump

I wrote this letter and sent it to each red state Elector stating their responsibility to our Democracy. Contact information for them can be found here.

You, being a community leader, with intelligence, honor, and a duty to your country, hold in your hand, the very tool that our founding fathers gave to you.  They gave you this tool for a very specific reason.  They, in their great wisdom, set up the system in which we have lived for over 200 years, in order to keep our Democracy alive and well by keeping it out of the hands of populist demagogues.

Our country has not come face to face with that specific reason.....until now.  If you have not already heard this quote from Alexander Hamilton, one of the architects of the Electoral College, I present to you here:

“…the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

We are now in a time in which this disaster is eminent, but for you. We need not debate the demerits of Mr. Donald J. Trump and his lack of qualifications to hold the office of President.  You, I am sure, are aware of his demeanor, his recklessness, and his lack of aptitude to hold this office. You, as an esteemed Elector, guardian of our democracy, must look deep into your soul, and know that this is a time of action.  The fact that we have never been through this before, does not relinquish your current responsibility to act now to do your part in keeping a populist demagogue out of office.

We need not worry of the riotous consequences should you not give Donald Trump enough votes, for Congress can very well maintain his selection, there-by appeasing those masses.  At the same time, this communicates to Trump, that his is not a mandate as he has stated, but puts him more at the mercy of those responsible for his election, those smarter than he.

The consequences of resistance to fulfilling your obligation as an Elector, may well be The abolishment of this one last protection, should you not prove it’s worth.