In the United States, the presidential election is decided by what is known as the electoral college, which is:
the group of presidential electors required by the Constitution to form every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the president and vice president. Each state appoints electors under the methods described by its legislature, equal in number to its congressional delegation (representatives and senators) totaling 535 electors.
This has precisely one effect: providing voters in states with small populations a considerable advantage in terms of political power over those in states with large populations. For example, in Wyoming, one electoral vote derives from each group of 193,000 citizen. In California, that number is 741,000, meaning that Wyoming voters are 3.8 times more powerful than Californians in determining the president and vice president.
What makes this important are the factors that go into making small states small and big states big. What we see when we examine this is that big states tend to have higher levels of education, productivity, and affluence. Thus the electoral college skews U.S. voting in favor of the relatively uneducated, poor and uninformed.
Does that sound like to a good idea to anyone who honestly wants this nation directed by intelligence? There is a reason that Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. are headquartered in California and not in Wyoming; these decisions were not made by rolling dice.
There is a push to abolish the electoral college, and, needless to say, I support it.
Maybe turning the White House into an attraction for the country’s least educated people (some say “trailer trash”) isn’t a good idea. It’s often referred to as the most demeaning moment in U.S history.
But let’s be real. Our nation is at its lowest point since its founding. Maybe we can, as a country, use this moment of extreme degradation as alcoholics refer to as “hitting rock bottom.”
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/06/14/white-house-lawn/
I met a fellow earlier today who, with a partner, owns and runs a company that imports a wide variety of goods into the United States from China.
I asked him, naively, how tariffs are affecting him. He said, “Well, until recently, taxes on our goods were 3.5%; now they’re 45%. I pass most of this this on to my (retailer) customer, and he passes it on to you. If you’re wondering why the price of a stick of deodorant has just gone through the roof, you’ve just figured it out.”
In retrospect, I shouldn’t have brought it up in the first place.
I met a gentleman from South Africa yesterday, and I told him that I’m sure he knows that Trevor Noah is a huge thing here in the U.S.
He replied that he doesn’t like Trevor Noah and explained that he doesn’t think politics and comedy should be mixed.
I thought that to be peculiar, as political humor has been a big deal here for centuries, and has grown mightily since the 1970s. Think of Saturday Night Live and all the late-night television hosts that have come along and achieved huge popularity.
More to the point, this is Trevor Noah’s brand. It’s what he does–and sells for a living. It’s like Nike and its swoosh and it’s “Just do it” slogan.
I have a feeling that what he objects to is the mixing of left-wing politics and comedy, because he doesn’t like to see progressive ideas promoted in society.
https://www.2greenenergy.com/2026/06/14/trevor-noah/
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