I need help understanding the electoral college?

Here is what you need to understand. According to Article II of the Constitution the states have to select electors who will vote for president at the electoral college vote. The method for choosing these electors of left up to the states. Currently all of the states have chosen to use a popular vote by their people in order to choose electors. The states elect the president. The president is supposed to represent the union, not the people except in a diplomatic sense. Electors are proxy voters for the states. The national popular vote means nothing. If it did we would be more like a true democracy which would be an inferior form of government to what we have. As it was originally crafted and as it still should be the people are represented in the House of representatives. The states were represented in the Senate and the Union is represented by the president who is supposed to be the attorney-in-fact for the Union.