RE: Why Do Elections Matter?
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I think we were sold a bill of goods when we were told that democracy and a constitutional republic were an effective way to secure our rights and liberties. Electoral politics turns every conflict into a zero-sum game, and the Constitution still allowed enough political plunder from the start to weaponize government against rivals.
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I have sometimes pondered if we would have been better off just tweaking the Articles of Confederation. Still, I think our Constitution, if followed, would have been all right. Problems came with a few big things: the Federal Reserve (huge, evil group of worldwide bankers), the income tax amendment (enabling unlimited plunder of working folk) and the misinterpretation of the amendment granting citizenship to native born emancipated people to mean automatic citizenship for anyone born within our borders.
Big problems began with the Whiskey Rebellion response and the Alien and Sedition acts. It was rotten from the get-go.