The US founding fathers were very explicit about how they intended to set up a constitutional order that would protect their class interest against democracy. The last thing they wanted was to enable the unwashed masses to vote away their wealth and privilege.
Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?
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Including the time when white people could own black people as slaves? That democracy?
The US founding fathers were very explicit about how they intended to set up a constitutional order that would protect their class interest against democracy. The last thing they wanted was to enable the unwashed masses to vote away their wealth and privilege.
and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible
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Ok, you know things. Cool. So why are you being so dodgy about hyperspecific political tendencies? Why is such a precarious, controlled, center-left (by ur standard) system like the US worth balancing?