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Maybe you should read Federalist Paper #10, #14, and some of Jefferson's letters before resorting to snide cynicism.
by lr4444lr 9y ago
Maybe you should read Federalist Paper #10, #14, and some of Jefferson's letters before resorting to snide cynicism.
- vkou 9y agoIf we were to take a more charitable interpretation of them then mine, then I would say that the American experiment failed utterly. "A number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community" is a picture-perfect description of the American political landscape, despite all the hubbub about states rights, direct democracy, and how your representatives know best.