We reap what we sowed when we changed all those standards of governance ... so maybe we really have no complaint when malcontents and misfits hijack the process.
>> The idea that every idiot who can breathe on a mirror — and even many that can’t — should participate in the election of leaders in a free nation would have been completely alien to this country’s founders.
I totally agree with this and if it were up to me, we would move back to something closer to what the founders had in mind. At that time, only land-owners voted, with (I assume) the idea being that they were the productive citizens. I no longer think land ownership is a good test, but I do think that not being on welfare would be a good test. Those who are on the take should NEVER be allowed to vote themselves more from those who produce. (That includes Congressmen who vote themselves raises from the tax-paying public.)