it is sort of funny that trumpism is the exact system they were trying to avoid and yet none of their institutional fixes to prevent this worked
time to think about this
time to think about this
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Andy Craig
The Founders could have never imagined 21st century America, as we argue about tariffs and annexing Canada and the perils of a standing army and the consequences of a populist demagogue becoming president and the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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1. FPTP - fix via RCV or nothing changes.
2. Electoral College - no state leg binds, and nonpartisan.
3. Electronic voting must be reformed to be completely transparent, like open-source.
4. Equal rights amendment.
5. SCOTUS code of ethics
6. Term limits on all
7. Campaign finance reform
Y'all only fixed the latter after FDR died.
We failed, not the system.
turns out enough voters but also governors, congresspeople, and judges (of the red variety) are totally down to give up power to a wannabe-king!
apparently not.
What they didn't imagine - and maybe couldn't - was an ENTIRE PARTY breaking bad.
Laws can't enforce themselves, so if you have sufficient political support to enable you... they won't be enforced.
The Founding Fathers understood that if enuff citizens don't want a democracy any more, you will no longer have one. No institutions can withstand that math.
- Anti-Gracchist coup
- Social War
- Sulla vs. Marius
- Cinna vs. Octavius
- Sulla vs. Cinna
- Sulla vs. Quintus Sertorius and Lepidus
- Catiline Conspiracy
- [all of the Caesar nonsense]
*[argument over how to count the Articles of Confederation go here]
the structures were good at preventing the rise of such figures; and
the structures were good at managing or defeating such a figure should they clear the first hurdle.
As of 2021 I would've told you that they did a great job of the second one! Still not sure what happened next was their fault exactly
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from which Leonardo Da Vinci and about 20 other people created a Vitruviusian Man art for book 3 of the 10 books is about that subject Men proportions and divine Temples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_architectura
starts in Augustus building regime and what we now see as classical style of architecture due to Vitruvius making it the art style of rome
Its just that as soon as parties happened the whole system broke down
They beefed it bad.
Under normal circumstances, of course, not right now.
Many things to knock them for and that they got wrong, but a perfect perpetual motion machine was never in the cards.
Impeachment would remove him, but at the end of the day men have to enforce the law and the GOP have chosen not to do so.
Everyone wanted three branches, checks and balances, etc.!
flaw was lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court.
Got rid of one king only to replace him with 9 other unelected monarchs for life.
What is shocking is how long they survived.
he's the founders' wet dream
strong factions tend to weed out the likes of trump before they get this far
in conclusion, the post-1968 party reforms were a mistake
1) Legitimizes the Senate
2) Makes local elections irrelevant to federal elections.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment&wprov=rarw1
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None of the founding fathers imagined that people would elect the worst human being possible
And a lot of our systems are in disrepair and people know it, generally, and voted with fear & anger, or didn’t vote IMO
I also think regardless of our system, something went catastrophically wrong that can’t be explained by institutional design.
And it’s telling that prior to 2015, there were extremely few observers anywhere, not just in the United States, who thought someone like Trump was possible.
In our time, those people nearly ALL turned out to be weak, cowardly, feckless, incompetent, or corrupt.
Lawmakers. Law enforcement. The parties. The media. My GOD, the media.
All of them didn’t just fail. They chose to fail.
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Not a great way to filter out problems. And we probably should've upgraded after doing away with it.
But "soft" law cannot be enforced, e.g. if you don't have a law to prevent or punish corruption in the Supreme Court members, just some soft code of conduct, you can guess what will happen if you appoint people without integrity. Flexible interpretation rules
All the safeties are gone, and you aren't really left with any good options.