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America's founders also considered slaves fractional people and women incapable of voting. They happened to be right about some things, but they were still wron
by monodeldiablo 9y ago
America's founders also considered slaves fractional people and women incapable of voting. They happened to be right about some things, but they were still wrong about other things.
- gfiorav 9y agoYeah, they also called indigenous people “savages”. Back in those days stuff like that was still not clear. However, when creating the constitution, they put a lot of thought on the system it should follow. Like I said: direct democracy is a tried and tested method. It has failed for the same reason always.
- monodeldiablo 9y ago> Like I said: direct democracy is a tried and tested method. It has failed for the same reason always. Always? You should be sure to inform the Swiss, who've been operating under the mistaken assumption that direct democracy in their cantons was functioning just fine. Then, climb in your time machine and alert the New Englanders that their town halls were actually ruinous disasters. Then go further back and mock the ancient Athenians for starting this whole democracy debacle by running a stable government for 200 years.