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> and by design anyone else find it ridiculous how often people try to claim the issues plaguing the US government are "by design". it seems like it's done fo

by lurr 9y ago

> and by design anyone else find it ridiculous how often people try to claim the issues plaguing the US government are "by design". it seems like it's done for almost anything. Electoral college is giving more and more power to low population states and somehow that is by design despite the house being capped for a century. political parties were warned about by some of the founding fathers, but the adversarial nature turning into an incredibly toxic environment is "by design"?

thephyber 9y ago
> Electoral college is giving more and more power to low population states and somehow that is by design despite the house being capped for a century. I'll agree with your second point, but not this one. In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of the issues ("how to elect the president") was tasked to the "Committee of Eleven on Postponed Matters", which came up with the Electoral College. The founding fathers gave the low-population states a bone in order to create something that all of the colonies/states could/would ratify. It is affirmative action for states where few people want to live. And it was "by design" at the time of ratification of the Constitution. It was, however, designed as a compromise, as was allowance of slavery and the 3/5s of a person that each slave represented for Congressional Districts.
Clubber 9y ago
You don't think two party politics are adversarial by design? Wake up. Politicians talk the way they do because to get elected, you energize your base. You do that by shitting on the other guy. Good ideas don't get you elected. Emotion does and that emotion is usually fear. Read a newspaper website. Pick any. Do you think the "October surprise" every singe presidential election cycle is just one hell of a coincidence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise

by lurr 9y ago

thephyber 9y ago

> Electoral college is giving more and more power to low population states and somehow that is by design despite the house being capped for a century. I'll agree with your second point, but not this one. In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of the issues ("how to elect the president") was tasked to the "Committee of Eleven on Postponed Matters", which came up with the Electoral College. The founding fathers gave the low-population states a bone in order to create something that all of the colonies/states could/would ratify. It is affirmative action for states where few people want to live. And it was "by design" at the time of ratification of the Constitution. It was, however, designed as a compromise, as was allowance of slavery and the 3/5s of a person that each slave represented for Congressional Districts.

Clubber 9y ago

You don't think two party politics are adversarial by design? Wake up. Politicians talk the way they do because to get elected, you energize your base. You do that by shitting on the other guy. Good ideas don't get you elected. Emotion does and that emotion is usually fear. Read a newspaper website. Pick any. Do you think the "October surprise" every singe presidential election cycle is just one hell of a coincidence? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise