(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) On his show The Last Word, MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell made the ludicrous claim that the Electoral College was “the most grotesque institution ever imposed on a so-called democracy.”
According to Breitbart, O’Donnell went on an extended rant about how the British parliamentarian system of government is better than what the Founding Fathers created.
“Today, the most clownish British prime minister of our lifetime announced his humiliating resignation pending the choice of a successor and thereby demonstrated, once again, the superiority of the British parliamentary system over the system chosen by our Founders, who believed they were smarter,” O’Donnell said.
“And deciding to lock the country into fixed four-year terms, of presidents, who we now know, for partisan reasons, cannot be removed no matter what crimes they are caught committing,” O’Donnell continued, decrying the founders for overcorrecting and creating the Electoral College.
“The Founders’ obsession to avoid all things British in government led them to the creation of the most grotesque institution ever imposed on a so-called democracy, the Electoral College.”
“The only reason to worry about the fairness of the next presidential election is the Electoral College. Without the Electoral college, no problem. The Electoral College is one of the Founders’ many crimes against democracy.”
It is unclear if O’Donnell knows what democracy actually is.
Plowing on, O’Donnell listed off the founder’s “crimes against democracy,” calling them “dabblers,” “experimenters” and racists.
“Other crimes against democracy by the Founders include two senators per state, not allowing anyone other than a small percentage of white men to vote, and not allowing anyone to vote for United States senators,” O’Donnell bumbled.
