Fun reminder: The "Ivy League" has nothing to do with academia. It is the league within which these various universities' sports teams compete.

So the reason for the vaunted "Ivy League" as a euphemism for these elite institutions has more to do with somebody's failson holding a tennis racket than it does with them holding a pen.

Motherfuckers be arguing for child slavery, and not laughed out of the world

An eighteenth-century slave-owner settler-colonial constitution doesn’t care about democracy?

:shocked-pikachu:

(Of course, their open embrace of bourgeois authoritarianism & fascism is still gross as f)

have they considered that the constitution is just a piece of paper it holds no bonds to the American people other than those enforced by cops

even if america had "free and fair" (meaningless platitudes) presidential elections that still wouldn't make it a democracy, it wont be democratic until capitalism is destroyed, otherwise its still just people electing whoever scams them the best

Time to emerge from my lurking (i can't use the common fed epithet anymore) and point out something people who haven't studied the late 19th century don't seem to get: Harvard is right. Technically speaking, the bill of rights didn't even have to apply to state governments until one group of supreme court justices started reading it that way, and you have to consider the political tensions of those times in order to understand why. A new court can easily go back to old precedents, it's how citizen's united won and how roe v wade will likely die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

Also please remember that we didn't directly elect senators until the early 20th century, and coupling that with how we have artificially capped the house of representatives will have you find that America's nominal democracy is living on borrowed time.