Nothing personal, but would you suggest that landed white males understand the differences?
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You’re right the popular will of the people can’t be trusted. What we should really do instead of a direct popular vote is have some sort of intermediary group that can over rule the popular vote. If we had something like that in place instead of a direct popular vote we never would have ended up with buffons like Junior or Trump.
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I guess this is “protected speech” most likely. But can we out this ass so the Internet can render a verdict?
I can imagine that another one of Trump’s superfans will be shouting “Lock her up! Lock her up!” at the next revival of “The Diary of Anne Frank”.
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Or even better: Thanks, Obama!!!
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Someone could have probably been awarded an honorary Tony Award for pushing that fucker off the balcony.
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You should probably leave Patton out of that list. He was himself quite the anti-Semite, and an object of admiration by Trump.
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Ideally a nation would be desirous that those having input into how it is governed would meet some minimal level of learning and base intelligence. No different that you interviewing several architects before deciding which you’ll entrust to build you a new home. Why would you approach building your government any different that you would building the home you live in? In some aspects they’re one and the same.
Did the Founders put up the Constitution for a vote?
I take it this is a snark reference to the Electoral College?
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T paraphrase the inimitable Fran Liebowitz , “The biggest flaw in democracy is that it promotes the idea that all men are created equal. One has only to look around the room to see the error in that assumption…”
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Actually E.E. Cummings generally wrote his name “E.E. Cummings” not e e cummings.
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On a related note…on the topic of TPM publishing Trump’s twitter feed here every freakin’ day. Maybe they can consider just publishing Fox ‘n’ Friends or StormFront’s twitter feed instead? It would save a step.
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There’s about .000000000002% of the population I’d engage in a trust fall with, and likely a third of that number I’d have dinner with afterward. Face it, any enterprise involving more than two people is asking for trouble. Often even adding the second person assures failure.
Yep,it’s one big experiment. HOWEVER…I do prefer everyone’s vote counting apposed to the vote of a select number of approved people. The problem we are having right now is that schools are no longer teaching the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy AND explaining what that damn constitution includes.
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Was he, by chance at the theatre of the absurd?
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The problem we are having now is that we have a generation of people raised in a society expressing just the sort of contemptuous and cynical attitudes towards democracy illustrated in the previous posts and then are scratching our heads as to why they don’t have faith in the system.
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Word. Cynicism and democracy cannot co-exist.
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But he was an anti-Semite… so it works on two levels
Look I can be as cynical as anyone, but that doesn’t change that the only way a government can claim any sort of legitimacy is with some way of getting the buy in and consent of the governed or that various flavors of democracy are the only real way we have worked out for that so far. And that doesn’t work if you start excluding people from the process.
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