They did though. They knew that it wasn’t a perfect system, and that it would be up to following generations to ever perfect it and to stay ever vigilant against tyrants foreign and domestic. The ”tree of liberty…”, ”a republic, if you can keep it”, and so on. They absolutely imagined it.
The problem is that it's very hard to design a system of rules to control people who don't believe in the rules. If I started kicking the ball in a basketball game, I'd be ejected. If I bring 100 friends who kick the ball, no amount of referring to the rules will fix the game. The game is ruined
The reasoning that it’s a both sides are equally to blame is why this is happening … the both-sides fallacy results in significant apathy and depresses voter turn out
No one said both sides are equally to blame, just that Democrats are at a minimum complicit by not opposing Trump, nor using the supermajority they've held several times over the decades to instill protections of our basic rights. Dems might not have lit the fire, but they stand by and watch it burn
What protections? Roe v. Wade? At least four Democratic Senators opposed abortion protections in the ACA. They sure as hell wouldn’t support codifying Roe v. Wade.
Or idiots who think it's reasonable to vote for and give nuclear power to someone without evidence of moral compass and is capable of telling over 30,000 documented lies in 4 years and the apparent IQ of a peanut
You act like the millions of people who voted for Trump or refused to vote against Trump had no agency. What Democrats were holding a gun to their head and telling them not to vote? This was THEIR CHOICE, and they chose wrong.
…again, idk how “she lied about Biden’s health” somehow is more of a pressing matter than “he is a fascist rapist who says immigrants poison the blood of our country.” Give me a fucking break.
The framers were scared of the average person voting for the President, and that’s why they created the Electoral College.
Also Senators are supposed to represent their state’s government rather than their people sooooooo…
Bingo! The voters are the problem, Trump is the consequence of the voters. They won't go away no matter what happens to Trump *cough* assassinate him *cough*
They expected that the people would be smart enough to hang anyone that tried to implement a federal reserve system to take control of the money and thus, the government.
The electoral college was a compromise with the intention of keeping a populist candidate from appealing directly to vast qualities of uninformed voters.
building on what you said here I also need to say that it's not taught in civics classes, but when they mean landowner they're not talking about someone with a three-bedroom house they are talking about their equivalent of landlords, sharecropping Lords, and plantation owners.
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My point is if they had thought of this exact situation, they would have put in additional safeguards into the Constitution.
With that said there's no way they could have predicted all potential scenarios.
Also Senators are supposed to represent their state’s government rather than their people sooooooo…
They still feared being colonized, or broken up to be colonized, & would fight against it.
But between 1917 & 1953, Anglos transitioned this country back into a de facto British colony.
So frustrating.
They are the ones who violated our constitution most of all.
The electoral college was a compromise with the intention of keeping a populist candidate from appealing directly to vast qualities of uninformed voters.
The framers did not get everything right.
https://www.history.com/articles/electoral-college-founding-fathers-constitutional-convention
2. There were a lot of compromises with the south. 3/5s compromise for the House, this impacting the Electoral College.
4. The Electoral College is complex. I apologize for over simplifying it.
have you met america
you chose to respond before thinking it through
maybe you're not that different
he woulda shot all four of me
do you accept new info with grace and reason
or does your ego cling to everything you think you know about it
my account is a whole reason vs ego experiment, you're helping science if you decide to be nice about it
Separation of powers
No direct election of senators (we obviously, rightfully, changed this decades later)
The entire bill of rights.2A was meant as the last defense
They knew of its flaws, but had to compromise