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RE "democracy": There is no case of any successful society ever doing anything remotely similar to what people mean by "democracy" in the modern world. It's utterly ridiculous.
Ancient Athens and Rome both used "democracy" but not in the way modern people think of it. Only wealthy, landed men, the elite, were allowed to vote. No one else's vote mattered. Their opinions didn't matter either.
Elections were typically about one thing and one thing only: Who to appoint as the next dictator. The dictator was expected to kick butt and take names. Democracy in these nations was more akin to the "Banana Republics" or "Dictatorship" than anything else.
The Founding Fathers imagined a system where wealthy, landed white men ran the country. They would get together to vote merely to prevent civil war as long as possible. The government was imagined as a place where ideas go to die. There was only one thing the government was supposed to do and that was to make life miserable for anyone who wasn't wealthy, landed or white, or American. That was it. We hated governmnet from day 1, and we intended to hate it forever after.
Ancient Athens and Rome both used "democracy" but not in the way modern people think of it. Only wealthy, landed men, the elite, were allowed to vote. No one else's vote mattered. Their opinions didn't matter either.
Elections were typically about one thing and one thing only: Who to appoint as the next dictator. The dictator was expected to kick butt and take names. Democracy in these nations was more akin to the "Banana Republics" or "Dictatorship" than anything else.
The Founding Fathers imagined a system where wealthy, landed white men ran the country. They would get together to vote merely to prevent civil war as long as possible. The government was imagined as a place where ideas go to die. There was only one thing the government was supposed to do and that was to make life miserable for anyone who wasn't wealthy, landed or white, or American. That was it. We hated governmnet from day 1, and we intended to hate it forever after.