(August 9, 2018 at 11:59 am)alpha male Wrote:(August 9, 2018 at 11:55 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: The issue isn't about whether you can stick your head in the sand (I assume you do), but whether you should. The Constitution isn't a damn government auto-pilot setting. The framers envisioned an educated, engaged citizenry.
LOL - the framers reserved the Senate and the President for the state elites, not the citizenry. Things have changed since then, but don't think that the framers had a ton of faith in the citizenry.
Right: a republic, not a democracy. But this isn't a question of faith in people. They were right to distrust the alleged wisdom of the people. Hell, they would have even less faith in the people if they could see what a sorry bunch of morons we've become -- in part because of our dependence on social media to get "news". The point stands: they envisioned an educated and engaged citizenry.
Remember Franklin's response when asked what kind of government the Constitutional Convention had fashioned: A republic, if you can keep it. It's hard to do that with word of mouth education on public affairs.
*shrug* You don't give a shit. So be it.
