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CaptainTrouble on scored.co

12 hours ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / ) 2 children

Founding fathers were incredibly naive looking back on things. They projected their own nobility onto everyone else thinking everyone else would ultimately think like them. Basically, they felt everyone could be noble but that's clearly not the case. Voting should be restricted to 10-20% of the population at most.

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Tourgen on scored.co

11 hours ago 13 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

no they did not. the restricted the vote to white european men owning land and in good standing with their community. so probably 20% at the highest.

they also recognized the republic they created wasn't going to last. "a republic, as long as you can keep it". Hamilton and Washington in particular were very pessimistic about the future of the new nation. they also didn't think much of the constitution but it was the best that everyone would agree to.

and by 1820 the shitlib progressives had already knocked away the foundation.

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CaptainTrouble on scored.co

11 hours ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

They could have put those voting restrictions in the constitution.

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HarlechMan on scored.co

9 hours ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

Yes, and no. Voting rights were handled partly at the state level.At the time only the House of Representatives was a direct individual vote at the federal level. The President was handled by the Electoral College, and Senators at the time were elected not by popular vote but by the State governments themselves.

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Shadys_Back on scored.co

3 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )

Correct. We really aren't the same country. SCOTUS itself acts far, far outside of its reach and POTUS doesn't even ask Congress for permission to launch wars anymore. The Founders wouldn't recognize America today.

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Shadys_Back on scored.co

3 hours ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / ) 1 child

No, their only miscalculation was thinking future generations would be stupid enough to give the vote to women and niggers.

Also, Washington warned us against political parties. He should have outlawed them when he had the chance.

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CaptainTrouble on scored.co

3 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child

How would outlawing political parties work exactly? Couldn't people just form into "groups" and wouldn't it be mostly the same?

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Shadys_Back on scored.co

3 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )

Which is how it should be, people forming consensus at the grassroots level. Not some national organization, taking undisclosed money from private and foreign interests, broadcasting "This is who you must vote for; if you don't vote for them, you're not a loyal drone" to a bunch of party-fanatic drones. I know plenty of people that voted for Romney because the GOP told them to and they had no other option.

Democrats have a strong "retention rate" that Kamala didn't have to be vetted or even campaign because Dems "vote blue no matter who."

That's not how America is supposed to work.

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