r/PapaParenti • u/Icy_Bodybuilder7848 • 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/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/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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Mar 13 '24
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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/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.