The Founding fathers never wanted the Congress to become multi millionaire puppets for the oligarchs. They never dreamed of Gerrymandering districts, unlimited campaign spending and people spending their entire lives in Congress. Because each and every one of these changes alone is enough to kill democracy. Each one, one the face of it is at least suspect, if not treasonous. The level of intervention in daily life they wanted Congress to exert was able to be completed in a few moons during the time between Harvest and Spring planting. The earliest citizens of our great nation saw government service as a benevolent activity that was supposed to benefit the people generally. As in many democratic socialist systems all public workers know that the citizens are their ultimate employers.
Turning in their graves is an understatement of how badly they would feel about what our nation has become.
As much as we can find about the intent these men had, they knew from the start that by allowing majority to rule, not only the super-minority of a wealthy class, but "ordinary men", there would be a more even playing field for candidates and a more broad spectrum of representation of ideas. The entire age suffered from a great infatuation with knowledge and the spreading of that knowledge as part of building a new society of men. We need to redouble our efforts to let the ruling class know that this is our democracy, not theirs to be fed to us, like babies eating their first peas, but as men who can take responsibility for dealing with truth, who gnaw it off the skeletal remains of the lies we have been told, who devour truth like hungry wolves, peeling back long ribbons of the fleshy meat of truth and gulp it down with reverence, because that is what humans do.
Follow the money to reveal the house of lies.
Turning in their graves is an understatement of how badly they would feel about what our nation has become.
As much as we can find about the intent these men had, they knew from the start that by allowing majority to rule, not only the super-minority of a wealthy class, but "ordinary men", there would be a more even playing field for candidates and a more broad spectrum of representation of ideas. The entire age suffered from a great infatuation with knowledge and the spreading of that knowledge as part of building a new society of men. We need to redouble our efforts to let the ruling class know that this is our democracy, not theirs to be fed to us, like babies eating their first peas, but as men who can take responsibility for dealing with truth, who gnaw it off the skeletal remains of the lies we have been told, who devour truth like hungry wolves, peeling back long ribbons of the fleshy meat of truth and gulp it down with reverence, because that is what humans do.
Follow the money to reveal the house of lies.
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