BoberFett
Lifer
- Oct 9, 1999
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Our founding fathers wouldn't have dreamed of allowing one tyranny to be traded for another, for the democracy and rights of the people they created to be trashed.
Some of them could be some 'elitist' aristocrats - viewing 'the masses' as unfit to govern much directly, needing representatives.
But things were quite different then; the society was 90% farmers who were indeed in little position to 'govern directly' well. There was no such thing as a big corporation - much less the modern corruption of a 'corporatocracy' with huge corporations with interests at odds to society and power enough to threaten the people's power, with a finance industry massive and able to blackmail the national and even global economy.
Someone quoted John Adams on property rights - but the world he was speaking in was a very different one. He was speaking of very different issues than today's.
You are stupid and ignorant of history.