"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule." - President Gerald Ford

The very common misconception amongst the populace is that our government presides in the socratic cycle; particularly, that we are indeed a Democracy governed through majority rule. Such rhetoric has contributed to the common assault from the socialist ideology that society is governed by the grips of majority tyranny in order to validate their Marxist diatribes against freedom. Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth.

When the Framers created a government by the people and for the people, indeed this government was created for all people in a Constitutional Republic where the rights of all in the majority and the minority shall be respected and upheld by the elected officials that represent them.

The Constitution of the United States and the force of freedom thereof were ratified on the premise that the voices of all may be heard in choosing the representatives that would be the legislators and executives that shape the public and its course.

No one's freedom supersedes another's; not by class, not by creed, not by belief, not by faith. Indeed, all men are recognized as equal in the eyes of the law and indeed all men are granted individual voices with coequal worths.

The Electoral College, in particular, encompasses the very fabric of this philosophy. In choosing a representative for the highest office in government, the presidency, each state is assigned a number of electoral votes based upon each state's populace, requiring that candidates in the running for the executive office reach the minimum 270 electoral vote threshold in order to be considered "The President-elect".

Indeed, in today's society, the lack of education on the importance of the electoral college has contributed to a wave of socialist hatred against it and an adjunct call to abolish it altogether and choose presidents based purely on the popular vote. In a surprising dereliction to the very objection to the "majority tyranny" that the socialist pits against

Democracy in the philosophical think tank in their liberal ivy league colleges, the socialist willingly protests the system that takes the minority's voice into account for the choosing of the nation's executive in exchange for a president chosen strictly by the popular vote; an advocation for majority tyranny.

This doesn't come at any surprise, for the socialist is willing to abandon any position if it does not fit into their immediate agenda. Take the current election of Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a margin of 2,900,000 votes but had managed to unleash a "clean sweep" across the electoral college map in the crucial swing states needed to win him the election.

With violent protests that are descending into riots now across the United States by the liberal left for the purpose of a sought-after abolishment of the electoral college, it seems rather apparent that the people advocating this are violating their "cardinal ethic" that society must not be governed by majority tyranny.

As Tom Golisano asserted, "Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists."

If the constituency truly understood the electoral college, they would realize that if we went strictly by the popular vote, states like California and New York would essentially be choosing our presidents every single election cycle, completely voiding out the voices of the less populated states.

In an election cycle governed by the electoral college, each state is given a strong voice in the selection of the president, forcing each presidential candidate to voice their messages to all states in an attempt to capture the leanings of the electorate instead of merely banking on the popular vote.

Taking this into perspective, in the 2016 election, Donald Trump won 3,084 out of the 3,141 counties in America's heartland, the remaining 57 counties he lost contain the largest populaces in the country which contributed largely to Clinton's popular vote victory, which thereby leads to the inarguable conclusion that the abolishment of the electoral college would have given these 57 counties more power over the electorate than the other 3,084 counties; minority and majority tyranny then become intertwined in this line of reasoning.

In essence, the political leanings of the minority number of counties (57) have more weight over the political leanings of the rest of the 3,084 counties, and the majority vote which is greatly influenced by these 57 counties would always supersede the minority vote.

The Electoral College then gives legitimacy to both the majority and the minority and refuses either's attempts to engage in tyranny.

We must then call into question this newfound hatred for the electoral college by the socialist left, which seemed to raise no issues when this same electoral college gave President Obama two landslide elections in 2008 and in 2012. But when the electoral college yielded an unfavorable result, the backlash from the liberal left was evident of its inherent desire to destroy anything that doesn't further its radicalized agenda.

This is why it is important to recognize why our country is a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy like the socialist tries to falsely assert and educate.

Benjamin Franklin clearly identified why our country was never intended to be a Democracy, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”

For even the Framers in their brilliance recognized that the American society should be governed by all people and no minority or majority should be given more power over the other but spread equally across in a checked and balanced system. Every person, regardless of status, is given the power of one vote and one vote only. In this the election of any representative, more importantly the executive in the White House, is elected fairly and without any infringing bias or corruption.

We are a Republic giving a voice to every American citizen, and the leanings of the electorate are totally dependent upon the representatives that represent them and the public scrutiny of those who desire to lead. The Electoral College is the chief cornerstone of this Republic, and there is no greater risk we can undertake as a society than abolishing it, lest we subject ourselves to majority tyranny, which then leads to the selection of tyrants as our leaders, which then further leads to minority rule in Washington D.C., which then further leads to fascist rule, then to anarchy, then to destruction, thus trapping us into the Socratic cycle.

The Constitutional Republic is the only form of government that stands outside of this cycle and has given this nation any hope of surviving. Since this is so, The Republic must be defended at all costs and the Electoral College must never be threatened with the action of abolishment. It is a cheap parlor's trick to circumvent the scrutiny of ALL people in this country, and we must be savvy to it. Stand strong patriots, and defend this Republic with fervor and under the unction of Almighty God Himself!

As Alexander Hamilton brilliantly declared,