Rural America And The Electoral College

(USAToday) If the National Popular Vote drive kills the Electoral College rural and small town Americans who supply our food and energy will lose their voice. Should rural and small-town Americans be reduced to serfdom? The American Founders didnt think so. This is one reason why they created checks and balances including the Electoral College. Today that system is threatened by a proposal called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact or NPV. Rural America produces almost all our countrys food as well as raw materials like metals cotton and timber. Energy fossil fuels but also alternatives like wind and solar come mostly from rural areas. In other words the material inputs of modern life flow out of rural communities and into cities. This is fine so long as the exchange is voluntary rural people choose to sell their goods and services receive a fair price and have their freedom protected under law. But history shows that city dwellers have a nasty habit of taking advantage of their country cousins. Greeks enslaved whole masses of rural people known as helots. Medieval Europe had feudalism. The Russians had their serfs.