Keep electoral college

I noted the Democrat-Gazette’s preposterous second-to-worst columnist launched yet another impassioned but unreasoned attack on the electoral college, one of the founders’ greatest inventions. Yes, he noted how vain was his opposition, but how unfair that the electoral college gave more weight to acres than to voters. In his whining he showed yet again his complete misunderstanding of the American compact by which we became a nation.

The federal government is not the elected representative of the mass of residents of the whole country, legal and illegal; it is the elected representative of the states which make up the United States. The preposterous JB joins oh so many voices of the left in bemoaning that the enlightened civilizations of California and New York are not able to electorally drown out the voices of the unenlightened such as his native land. There is a very good reason for that rooted in the

Constitutional Convention that gave us the great compact that William Gladstone called the greatest work ever struck off by the mind of man.

Smaller states would never have agreed to become part of the United States had the most populous been able to drown their voices in the new government. The part of the great compromise that made the U.S. possible recognized that the cultural value and political importance of the less densely populated parts of the country were a value to the country worth preserving. Because that notion is rejected by Democrats, leftist pundits, and the coastal media does not make it invalid, un-American, or a bad idea.

If preposterous John truly hates that part of our cultural heritage so much, he could always move himself to one of the coasts where he could be just another in a million leftist voices, unnoticed and not making a ripple. Or he could stay here and be a big liberal fish in a shrinking liberal pond where he even draws notice from me. KARL T. KIMBALL Little Rock