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.
Our founding fathers did not like democracy and took steps to keep our republic running by implementing the superior electoral college system.
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.
You mean so the democrats could own their slaves. Funny how things have not changed
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.
Lincoln was a conservative himself. He described himself as a conservative and historians Label him as one. In the speech you cited, he was speaking as a conservative to other conservatives.
Democrats owned slaves. Democrats still want to own slaves.
I guess if you knew basically nothing about US history that would be a convincing statement.
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…??
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Are we still a nation after all these years? Do you not understand what the electoral college does? It makes sure the smaller states still have equal power in the government. Otherwise we’d split off because power would be held by a few states.
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.