Abraham Lincoln himself said the slavers called themselves Conservatives. You want to pretend like the great realignment didn’t happen, because facts are inconvenient to the narrative you find useful.
I know reactionaries are anti-intillectuals, but the reading assignment was pretty short.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Our founding fathers did not like democracy and took steps to keep our republic running by implementing the superior electoral college system.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What is superior about it at all? That it gives disproportional voting power to a few states?
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s what keeps the union together. Otherwise we would have split a long time ago.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
…the electoral college keeps the union together…??
amerika@annihilation.social 3 months ago
Remember the articles of confederation.
Federalism has always been a tricky balance.
We are the United States, not United Citizens.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They also thought slaves should count as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes.
So maybe we shouldn’t hold up their anti-democratic streak as an ideal.
But reactionaries are gonna reactionary.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
You mean so the democrats could own their slaves. Funny how things have not changed
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We’ve been over this, remember?
Abraham Lincoln himself said the slavers called themselves Conservatives. You want to pretend like the great realignment didn’t happen, because facts are inconvenient to the narrative you find useful.
I know reactionaries are anti-intillectuals, but the reading assignment was pretty short.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I guess if you knew basically nothing about US history that would be a convincing statement.
amerika@annihilation.social 3 months ago
Slavery sucked because it was diversity.
It was also cruel and pointless, since it was low quality labor.
The solution is ending diversity.