Frank McCarthy: Democrats want a pure democracy to gain absolute power

Jesus G Allen, do you have any contact with reality at all? The Republicans packed the Supreme Court by refusing to even hold confirmation hearings for Obama's nominee, claiming it was "too close" to an election. It was almost a year away, but then they turned around and confirmed their own nominee, another right-winger, with only weeks left until an election. They have successfully made the Supreme Court a political tool that no longer reflects the American public's views and attitudes. Conservatives are the minority in our country now, yet the SC has six out of nine justices that are conservatives. Meanwhile, the Democrats considered upping the number of justices, which is not limited in any way by the Constitution, but decided not to even though that would make the court more balanced. Yet you still try to claim they're the ones packing the court. Get a grip on reality!

As far as the electoral college goes, most people don't know it was the solution to not having the legislative body choose the leader, as was common in those days, but it has its downside. When one party keeps winning the popular vote handily, but losing the electoral college, it's not working the way it was hoped. There's nothing wrong with trying to tweak it to make it work better. I'm not for abolishing it, people don't realize just how much influence the big states would have if we did. At one point recently, one out of every eight Americans lived in California. Imagine how skewed it would be if we just used the popular vote. But at the same time, there's got to be a way to use gradients instead of all or nothing for a state's votes to make it more representative of the will of the people if we want people to believe every vote matters. I think it's a really bad misrepresentation of what the Democrats have talked about doing to say they're trying to "overturn" the system and that they insist the popular vote is the only thing that matters. I think most just see that it's not working properly, and want to improve it. The people that get the most votes should certainly win the preponderance of the time, but it's not happening that way.

Yes, a very nice explanation about some of the founding fathers, and an excellent rejection of the silly attempt made by many religious people to try to paint our founding fathers in their flawed image of what they wish they had been.

Frank's letters are always rife with foolishness and not connected with reality. Who ever talks about "pure democracy"? No one. Lame attempt at a straw man by Frank.