Since A and B therefore C has conned many people because few people take either the time or effort to check A or B. " We're all schooled on the idea that we live in a democracy and the people vote for president every four years." Strategic activists have been placed in many universities that push public perception drastically "left". A = "We're all schooled on the idea that we live in a democracy..." We don't live in a democracy we live in a constitutional republic. So if A is not true, C is also not true. "We're all schooled on the idea that we... is a cleverly and carefully crafted statement designed to look like the truth without actually stating it as the truth, which it is not. The Electoral College is part of the structure of the United States. With many democracies around, go find one you like instead of trying to destroy the US. "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson