We really are the first nation to ever implement voting? And not only that, but the created the electoral college system to prevent mega cities from overruling the fly over states?
It was a necessary to compromise to get the various states to ratify the constitution. No state would have signed on if it was an Athenian democracy where New York (the most populous state at the time) dictated terms to the rest.
It’s really amazing how pragmatic and knowledgeable the founders were to learn from the mistakes of history and structure those learnings in a constitution designed to maximize personal freedom.
What????
Voting has been a part of human culture for thousands of years, the ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians voted via a pottery shard and back then they had 1 person, 1 vote, 1 shard so there was less chance some idiot could start tabulating percentages of votes to find a winner!!!
Not being funny buddy but it seems like dumb fuckers from 3,000 years ago had a smoother, better run, less corrupt system that the current set up in 2020 where our President gets 8m more votes than last time yet still loses to a guy who has more birthday candles than followers
Yes we will blame your bad schooling but history is great and teaches us about both our wins and failures, i hope you will go and actually look into the history of voting now and not just take this as some sort of insult
Friend, look online I to classical home school curriculums (curricula) and consider buying some of their books for yourself! Philosophy and the fall of great empires were key in good education at the time- which was majorlybdone at home until college. Many old books that the founders studied are even free on project gutenberg. The Law (Bastiat), Democracy in America (de Tocqueville) or any of the founders' original writings could be a great start also.
Fill your time and your brain with good and beautiful things, it is never too late.
Okay, I'm an idiot who grew up in bad schools...
We really are the first nation to ever implement voting? And not only that, but the created the electoral college system to prevent mega cities from overruling the fly over states?
It was a necessary to compromise to get the various states to ratify the constitution. No state would have signed on if it was an Athenian democracy where New York (the most populous state at the time) dictated terms to the rest.
It’s really amazing how pragmatic and knowledgeable the founders were to learn from the mistakes of history and structure those learnings in a constitution designed to maximize personal freedom.
What???? Voting has been a part of human culture for thousands of years, the ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians voted via a pottery shard and back then they had 1 person, 1 vote, 1 shard so there was less chance some idiot could start tabulating percentages of votes to find a winner!!!
Not being funny buddy but it seems like dumb fuckers from 3,000 years ago had a smoother, better run, less corrupt system that the current set up in 2020 where our President gets 8m more votes than last time yet still loses to a guy who has more birthday candles than followers
Yes we will blame your bad schooling but history is great and teaches us about both our wins and failures, i hope you will go and actually look into the history of voting now and not just take this as some sort of insult
Birthday candles 🎂 top kek!
At the time of our founding, all other countries where monarchies or some other form of totalitarianism. Only the Colonies were practicing democracy.
Not true, although we made some major improvements.
Friend, look online I to classical home school curriculums (curricula) and consider buying some of their books for yourself! Philosophy and the fall of great empires were key in good education at the time- which was majorlybdone at home until college. Many old books that the founders studied are even free on project gutenberg. The Law (Bastiat), Democracy in America (de Tocqueville) or any of the founders' original writings could be a great start also.
Fill your time and your brain with good and beautiful things, it is never too late.