A broken system

  Most people will agree that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are widely unpopular and unqualified for the office of President of the United States of America.  Hillary go the nomination pretty much by default as qualified candidates did not file.  Even so, Bernie Sanders almost beat her which was a shocker to the DNC and the liberal press. 
   Donald Trump won the Republican nomination because he is an IN-YOUR-FACE type of person who shows little respect for anyone or anything who promises to do something about the problems facing America that never seems to go away.  Obama never brags about the "change we can believe in" because the changes that he brought about have only weakened the family and strengthen the future of the Democratic party.  Illegal immigrants and working class people are backbone of the Democratic party and the Republican party is seen as the party of the conservatives and the rich even though the extreme poor tend to be Republican. Go figure.
   A Prime Minister of England once noted that what was great about America was that any young person could grow up to be President but what was scary about America was that any young person could grow up to be President.    I think in this year's election we are seeing the scary side of that equation.  We are still wallowing in a two party political system  in which neither party can truly represent the views of its members and too many people support the party rather than the candidate. 
But it seems the only thing people want to change about our election process is the Electoral College.
The Electoral College is not responsible  for Obama, Bush, Trump or Hillary although some would disagree about Bush. 
    The founding fathers wanted a system that would represent the will of the people  by insuring that people in small states had equal representation with those from larger states, both in elections and in Congress. Originally the founding fathers limited voting to landowners because they tended to be better educated and more interested in the process of law than non landowners.  However congress and the Supreme Court eventually saw that policy as unfair and over time and protests the system was changed.  What the founding fathers did not anticipate was that grossly unqualified people could run and even get elected to office as the supreme leader that few would even follow. 
  Therefore I submit that while the system is broken it is not the Electoral College but the method by which  our two political parties elect their candidates.  We need more than two or three political parties, we need candidates that run on qualifications and platforms and not party affiliations.  One big problem with our current system is that local and state candidates are voted in or out of office based on how well the national candidate does and not always on their own merits. 
  Freeing candidates of party affiliations would allow office holders to vote their beliefs and not by party lines.  It would make for a much better system and better legislation for all concerned.