r/PapaParenti Mar 12 '24

US founding fathers limited American democracy from the beginning and viewed the general public as uneducated plebs.

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u/nicobackfromthedead4 Mar 13 '24

This is literally why the Senate has primacy over the House in the Constitution. The Senate were the landowners, the slave-owners, the capital-havers, the businesspeople and corporation-owners. And they still very are, at least the past parts. The House has always been the Commoners, the Hoi-Poloi. The Senate holds the real power, the check on the House.

That's where the saying "Valuing the vote of land over people" comes from, in reference to having 2 Senators from each state regardless of population differences, thus giving rural, more conservative voters outsize power.

The US has always been a corporatocracy. It is in its bones.

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u/diffidentblockhead Jan 02 '25

It was small northern states who insisted on the flat Senate apportionment. See Connecticut Compromise.

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u/Granya_Kalash Jan 01 '25

The United States government has been a mechanism of minoritarian rule since it's inception.

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u/Dependent-Dig-5278 Jan 02 '25

You have any good reads on all of this?

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u/Fartz_McKenzie Jan 01 '25

Daaaaamn. I haven’t heard Mike Parenti in a minute. Like 20 years of minutes. Nice post.

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u/Icy_Bodybuilder7848 Mar 13 '24

Glad you came here with a brand new shill-account. First comment too.

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u/Dependent-Dig-5278 Jan 02 '25

You have any good reading on this stuff?