Most people aren’t paying attention to any of this most of the time.
They should be, lack of attention is how you get this shit, but they don’t.
We need to overhaul democracy to account for this because I think the founders assumed a pissed off and highly involved populace when they wrote the constitution. They didn’t assume a social media addled distracted populace.
The older I get, the more I think the founders probably thought rich white landowners would keep the nation in check. I have less and less faith in their work. It was good for its time, but we have advanced in knowledge since then.
Most people aren’t paying attention to any of this most of the time.
They should be, lack of attention is how you get this shit, but they don’t.
We need to overhaul democracy to account for this because I think the founders assumed a pissed off and highly involved populace when they wrote the constitution. They didn’t assume a social media addled distracted populace.
The older I get, the more I think the founders probably thought rich white landowners would keep the nation in check. I have less and less faith in their work. It was good for its time, but we have advanced in knowledge since then.
We did advance. There have been 27 amendments.
We need to actually to enforce them. It’s been the same fight since the 14th amendment passed. It’s that simple.
We advanced in some ways, but we’ve also almost completely fallen to fascism, so ti’s kinda a mixed bag. heh