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kairos12

(12,817 posts)
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 01:31 PM Jun 2017

Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, did not account

for a celebrity based President, backed by a Kardashian obsessed no-nothing segment of the population, who believe that science is an Alternative Fact created by the devil.

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Founding Fathers, in their infinite wisdom, did not account (Original Post) kairos12 Jun 2017 OP
take it further - placed into the office by acts of a foreign enemy power. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2017 #1
+1 dalton99a Jun 2017 #4
It did not count for a citizenry that would show up in the millions for said individual. nt. NCTraveler Jun 2017 #2
Yeah, they did. Igel Jun 2017 #3

NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
1. take it further - placed into the office by acts of a foreign enemy power.
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 01:43 PM
Jun 2017

We are in such utter bizarro world...words don't really work to describe where we are.

Igel

(35,191 posts)
3. Yeah, they did.
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 05:37 PM
Jun 2017

There were property and tax requirements for voting. If you didn't own property and pay adequate taxes--remember, the head tax, fireplace tax, windows tax, etc., all indicated some means and therefore seriousness--you didn't vote.

That's the problem with limiting the franchise, though. The people you cut out are still citizens. Whether it's an education requirement or other knowledge-based litmus test (say, reading?) or financial or property-based or with restricted based on genitalia or skin melanin-content. The only reasonable requirement is that they have bought in and be invested in both the system and the "enterprise" that is the United States, with its independence, integrity, and prosperity as goal 1 (okay, goals 1-3). That presupposes a certain amount of solidarity and social cohesion, which have their own prerequisites.


Lots of "alternative fact" "science" exists. Climate-change denying, anti-GMO folk, homeopathy and acupuncture and iridology people, the anti-vaxxers. The first is mostly (R), the others mostly (D) except for the anti-vaxxers (which are split between (R) & (D)). Stones and glass houses.


BTW, it's "know-nothing." We'll brush up your capitalization and hyphenation skills later, for now I'd suggest investing in and reading https://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Manual-Style-16th/dp/0226104206 .

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