It’s been depressing for me with how adamant people are on keeping bad systems like the electoral college or how the senate is set up. Even worse when they were

It’s been depressing for me with how adamant people are on keeping bad systems like the electoral college or how the senate is set up. Even worse when they were initially set up by elitist, classist, and other powerful people that cared more about their own wealth and power than democracy. Why would we listen to what people like John Adams (who as far as I know is one of the better founding fathers) think of democracy when they believed in a system where only land owning men matter[0]. To prevent a response of “things were different then”. Even putting aside things that would be different if they were around today, namely women’s and non white’s rights, the core crux of being power hungry and considering themselves above poorer people is something that fits in perfectly with their writing and how the status quo is today. There’s no reason to think they’d think differently about who should wield power today. Elitism and greed hasn’t changed like sexism and racism has. 0. https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1645 https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1645