RE: How Fucked Up Are Trumptards?
August 9, 2018 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2018 at 12:48 pm by Crossless2.0.)
(August 9, 2018 at 12:37 pm)alpha male Wrote:
(August 9, 2018 at 12:25 pm)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Yes.
They generally didn't.
Quote:So I'm no worse off regarding information than what the framers dealt with, yet you somehow think this is a problem for the republic.
I wasn't talking about the information available to the framers, who were among the best informed and educated people in the country at that time. I was talking about the information available to Joe Schmoe. You have better sources of information available to you than they had. And yes, if you and millions of others choose not to avail yourself of it, that is a problem for the republic.
Quote:Of course, but thanks for the remedial civics lesson.
Point being that the framers didn't trust the citizenry much, but you claim they envisioned an educated and engaged citizenry. Seems contradictory.
I assume I don't need to belabor the difference between what is and what we might aspire to.
I share the framers' distrust of the citizens. You've just reinforced that.
