Maybe now is the time to end Electoral College

"The end of law is obedience; the end of education, understanding; the end of revelation., knowledge." "The Call of the Minaret", Kenneth Craig, (1956)

Under the looming mushroom clouds of war my life began. You see, I'm a member of that generation, who served and witnessed brinkmanship along with political assassinations, still hoping to live long enough to experience an extended period of peace not characterized by the insidious, muffled drum beats of economic , social, and racial unrest or militaristic conflict.

Once there was a time when youthful idealism chanted an ecclesiastical like message "that the times they are a changing … a time for every purpose under heaven. " Decades later that musical lyric, evolves to become "wailing/or the world to change … so we can bring our neighbors home from war … ". Today, instead of bringing "our neighbors home from war," political rhetoric and partisan politics foment division and demagogic discourse fueling a cancerous pandemic of social discord and war-like chaos spreading around the globe."

As a nation, are we sliding down that same slippery slope of the 1860s when both confidence in the rule of law and faith in the power of the ballot box were attacked by self-serving leadership as some type of devilish evil-enemy of the people? Just maybe … now is the time to discard a dysfunctional, gerrymandered electoral college and legislate a more equitable presidential election system based on the premise of "one person, one vote where (regardless of social, economic, racial, or partisan affiliation) a clearly defined, democratic majority of individual voters determine the outcome of national elections."

ARTHUR KAMINSKY

Bonners Ferry