Posted on 08/10/2018 11:31:28 AM PDT by DeweyCA
Consider a few facts: Donald Trump is in the White House, despite winning almost three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. The Senate, the country’s most powerful legislative chamber, grants the same representation to Wyoming’s 579,315 residents as it does to 39,536,653 Californians. Key voting rights are denied to citizens in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and other United States territories. The American government is structured by an 18th-century text that is almost impossible to change.
These ills didn’t come about by accident; the subversion of democracy was the explicit intent of the Constitution’s framers. For James Madison, writing in Federalist No. 10, “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention” incompatible with the rights of property owners. The byzantine Constitution he helped create serves as the foundation for a system of government that rules over people, rather than an evolving tool for popular self-government.
Writers on the left such as Jacobin’s Seth Ackerman and the journalist Daniel Lazare have long argued that constitutional reform needs to be on the agenda. Even some liberals like Vox’s Matthew Yglesias rightly worry that the current system of governance is headed toward collapse.
I believe the dems promote the idea of “democracy” to give democrats credance. Our government is most correctly discribed as a republican form of governance. A representitive republic, republican if you will.
The Electoral College was pure genius by our founding fathers.
The USA Today County by County 2000-2004 Voting Map removed any doubts I had about the Electoral College. It caused me to review other questions I had about the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
A short to the point Hillsdale Constitution Internet Course revealed more of the founder's wisdom.
America's founding is a beautiful lesson well worth learning. It is sad to see poorly informed citizens led into supporting destruction of the Republic.
Private property ownership is an absolute requirement for a healthy "REPUBLIC" to long endure and prosper.
A pure 'democracy' is mob rule, and will eventually become a bankrupt socialist wreck, just look south.
Its why the 17th Amendment must go.
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