LOOKING FOR DEEPER MEANINGS IN POLITICS

We are learning a lot from the current electoral situation in the United States. We get a glimpse of what citizen's voting rights are, and the enforcement of the electoral college method of choosing the president. We also learn how an official who assumes a position could be made legitimate despite the lack of the majority of the people's votes.

This then makes us think as to what rights and freedoms could protect citizens' votes, and how much power they have to make legitimate a government and whether the usual way of considering votes – that of majority versus minority- is still worthwhile holding onto. When a candidate receives minority votes, meaning less votes, should he/she be considered the winner?

In the more transcendent scheme of things, we need to nitpick on this US elections issue because we need to develop a sound political philosophy that would be useful for all countries, that could be used by the United Nations as parameters for declaring what is a democratic versus an autocratic form of election governance.

The discourse on clear, pristine political philosophy is currently being dampened by the possibility of the use of cyberwarfare by Russia to influence the US elections and thereby put into position their choice for the presidency.

Of course there are usual factors that could prevent the development of any sound political philosophy by the wars going on from one country to another, as if any dialogue, any peaceful settlement of conflict is a child's play. But the hacking into the institutions of one country by another, the violation of the boundaries of sovereignties of countries is the most serious, as it happens under the guise of a peaceful, and not a violent attack but rather a hidden intrusion to create an artificially positive electoral process.

We develop political philosophies because we all want peace and happiness as the ultimate vision of all societies. We go through debates, researches, studies and investigations in order to safeguard such values and prevent their erosion.

Questions such as what is the highest good; what are human rights; and what are the moral duties of leaders, need to be asked again and again. Also, which is more paramount, individual or social rights? Traditional or practical application of laws?

But the greater question for us with regard to the US elections is what are the qualities of a law that should be upheld?

A law should be rational, logical and not discriminatory. When a law is rational, then it makes citizens humane, and unifies them to work for the common good. When a law is logical, then its premises result in the proper conclusions, or that the conclusions follow from the premises. When it is not then it is an imposition, and becomes discriminatory as it tilts in favor of one party instead of being applicable to everyone.

Now, is the law on the Electoral College a just, rational, logical non-discriminatory, humane and righteous law?

What should be called righteous, the vote of the people or of the electoral college members?

The main selling point of democracy is that there is just and fair opportunity for all to compete and flourish in a civil society.

Also there are equal opportunities for ascendancy into the social ladder. In the case of the US elections, there should be equal opportunities for everyone to ascend and exercise political power. Moreover, I think that when a citizen votes, he/she does not think of the particularity of their situation, that is the state they belong to, but rather the larger whole, the whole country and not just the state. More succinctly, they vote for a president, as an American, not as a Californian or a New Yorker, which would have been parochial, to say the least. 

So which political rights of the people are being invalidated or given up when the question of Russian intrusion is not given enough attention, analysis and just conclusions are not being developed so that justice may be served to the voting people?

Now that controversies surrounding the US elections have surfaced, which is the sovereign political body who should investigate, control and give a just assessment of the US elections in order to satisfy the cravings for justice of the vast majority of the American people who voted other than for the current candidate being given the imprimatur?

As that sovereign political body shall move for a just investigation, of course the conclusion should redound to a just conclusion and maintain the peace in the American society, ensuring that the vast majority shall be satisfied with its conclusions and prevent any aggressive solution to the problem. 

An impartial investigation has to ensue now following allegations of the untenability of the Electoral College representatives as the final decision-maker of the choice for the presidency. Impartiality means all people shall be treated equally, their votes rendered meaningfully redounding to what they would consider how the good life of the nation shall be shaped, directed and how it should progress.

We look for deeper meanings in politics in order to continue valuing it as a tool to unify the people towards values that enhance our humanity.