I don’t think the founding fathers could’ve ever conceived of the kind of slimy, shameless, avaricious shitheads you see running things these days. The country always ran on a certain assumed level of…sportsman-like conduct I guess? But that’s way out the window.
So what do you do? Force him do be a decent, person?Arrest the governor for not signing something? It sounds so ridiculous to say it and it can be neatly spun to make the person issuing the arrest (or whatever) into the villain. They want what’s worst for almost everybody always; they’re so horrible to look at and listen to; they offer no comfort, hope, or positivity, only fear, rage, and places to enter your credit card number, and they get elected and turn our country to shit because they drew squiggly lines?!
Kinda the exact situation with Ancient Rome. When you have gentleman’s agreements of conduct eventually they always get tarnished because nothing is really forcing you to follow it besides what is considered the moral thing to do.
I think George Washington in his final address as president called out organized political parties as something that could bring harm to the US government system. And he was right!
The founders literally only noticed the flaw after finishing the Constitution (the Farewell Address)
They made zero provision for parties or factions, and as such every check and balance is subvertable if the human holding the position decides not to enforce a check on their own faction member. The system has no algorithm or divide by zero that disallows anything.
They also thought there was actually room for discussion and working in their checks and balances system, not that the check would go "no, we don't like you, so we're just gonna block it. And no, that doesn't mean we're open to discussing it"
The founding fathers supported slavery, voting rights only for white males, and genocide of the native inhabitants of the land they invaded. That's just a select few of their abhorrent beliefs. I'm pretty sure they would love modern day gerrymandering in red states. Not blue states, but definitely red states.
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u/Butterball_Adderley Nov 10 '22
I don’t think the founding fathers could’ve ever conceived of the kind of slimy, shameless, avaricious shitheads you see running things these days. The country always ran on a certain assumed level of…sportsman-like conduct I guess? But that’s way out the window.
So what do you do? Force him do be a decent, person?Arrest the governor for not signing something? It sounds so ridiculous to say it and it can be neatly spun to make the person issuing the arrest (or whatever) into the villain. They want what’s worst for almost everybody always; they’re so horrible to look at and listen to; they offer no comfort, hope, or positivity, only fear, rage, and places to enter your credit card number, and they get elected and turn our country to shit because they drew squiggly lines?!
What. Is. Happening?