You have a grade schooler’s idea of freedom and democracy.
I have a degree in history. YOU are the one claiming that the Founding Fathers wrote “tricks” into the Constitution to fool the citizens. I don’t think I’m the one with childish ideas.
Oh my, a degree in history and yet you still refuse to even acknowledge the Senate and don’t seem to be willing to define “democracy”. You must know that if you dig into either of those questions you’ll be lost without a map trying to justify a definition of democracy that does not grant every person the same voting power.
I’m not sure why you feel the Senate is somehow the lone proof of the Founding Father’s “secret tricks,” that’s a pretty weird hill to die on. And I wasn’t aware that I was expected to define Democracy. I could easily do that, with a simple definition of “electing one’s own leaders,” but I’m sure you wouldn’t accept that definition, nor literally any other definition I would offer, including verbatim quotes from accepted dictionaries.
This forum has an agenda, and I understand that, but it’s too bad that real debate isn’t allowed here, just bad-faith confirmation bias. You should start with the new Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, which did not flinch from acknowledging many of the contradictions of the Founding Fathers, while still acknowledging the overwhelming influence that the American Revolution, and the Constitution, had on every future government of the next 250 year. It is a fact that while America is a very flawed system, it has still had an overall positive effect on the world. Without the inspiration of the American Revolution and the Constitution, this planet would still be bogged down in monarchal governmental systems in which nearly every human is literally a slave to their King. If you live in a “free” country, and elect your own leaders, you can thank America for bringing that system to world.
As flawed as America is, they changed the world for the better, whether the people in this forum want to believe it or not.
I have a degree in history. YOU are the one claiming that the Founding Fathers wrote “tricks” into the Constitution to fool the citizens. I don’t think I’m the one with childish ideas.
Oh my, a degree in history and yet you still refuse to even acknowledge the Senate and don’t seem to be willing to define “democracy”. You must know that if you dig into either of those questions you’ll be lost without a map trying to justify a definition of democracy that does not grant every person the same voting power.
I’m not sure why you feel the Senate is somehow the lone proof of the Founding Father’s “secret tricks,” that’s a pretty weird hill to die on. And I wasn’t aware that I was expected to define Democracy. I could easily do that, with a simple definition of “electing one’s own leaders,” but I’m sure you wouldn’t accept that definition, nor literally any other definition I would offer, including verbatim quotes from accepted dictionaries.
This forum has an agenda, and I understand that, but it’s too bad that real debate isn’t allowed here, just bad-faith confirmation bias. You should start with the new Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, which did not flinch from acknowledging many of the contradictions of the Founding Fathers, while still acknowledging the overwhelming influence that the American Revolution, and the Constitution, had on every future government of the next 250 year. It is a fact that while America is a very flawed system, it has still had an overall positive effect on the world. Without the inspiration of the American Revolution and the Constitution, this planet would still be bogged down in monarchal governmental systems in which nearly every human is literally a slave to their King. If you live in a “free” country, and elect your own leaders, you can thank America for bringing that system to world.
As flawed as America is, they changed the world for the better, whether the people in this forum want to believe it or not.