Tag: vote

• August 17, 2018

  The Electoral College – A Power Move by the Slave-Owning Elite Class

  As we all should know by now, Madison and the founding fathers were not fans of democracy. Please read James Madison’s Ideas on Protecting the Opulent Minority Against the Tyranny of the Majority Let us now briefly discuss the Electoral College and its relationship to slavery. On Thursday July 19, 1787, at the Philadelphia Constitutional convention, the…
• February 1, 2018

  The True Purpose of the US Senate

  Hi, Have you ever wondered why the U.S. Senate (and Congress) in general is so out of touch with the people? Why does it feel like they serve other interests other than the will of the people? Answer: The Senate was never intended to serve the people. It was intended to serve the rich. James…
• November 11, 2010

  Democracy: what it is, isn’t, and what it should be

  In 431 BCE, while commemorating the city’s war dead, Pericles, the Athenian leader, spoke some of the most glorious words I have ever read: “Our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters;…and instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action,…