[ez]

Alter gets most of it wrong. It actually would be better if state legislatures still elected Senators. Cell phone would have been invented with or without deregulation. And women would eventually got the vote with or without progressives. However, it would have been better if they had kept the vote limited to landowners...the serfs just vote to spread their property around.

[chris_bdba]

"However, it would have been better if they had kept the vote limited to landowners"

Amen!