[quote name='Clak']Actually it kinda, sorta, really, does. No one at that time thought you, me, blacks, asians, hispanics, women, etc. would ever be allowed to vote. Hell, at the start you couldn't vote unless you were a wealthy land owner, and you know why that was? Because those rich assholes were afraid we'd vote to take their land away from them! They never thought that anyone but people like them would run this country.
It's sick of the way that people trying to glorify the founders of the country, like they were a bunch of saints or some shit. You see, THEY wanted liberty, THEY felt oppressed by the English government. They never meant that we'd all be equal and all have the same rights to vote and govern, they thought it would be them. Plenty of people had the strange idea that after independence there would be no taxes, and Washington put an end to that idea pretty damn quick, we call that the whiskey rebellion. During the revolution however, no one was very quick to point that out, lets just let the peasants think what they want, we'll deal with them later.
So you see, as Digital Underground once sang, it's just the same old song.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't about defending their property. Rather it was that they were the ones with the most knowledge. While this doesn't guarantee that they are also the most intelligent, it does give you greater odds of making the right decision than when the mis or uninformed weigh in. This owe why our system is based on a republic, not a democracy. The fact it has grown ever more into a democracy is in large part easy to show correlation to weakening of the system as more people lacking the knowledge to vote become involved. The most dangerous part is how easy it is to manipulate the uninformed, particularly through fear. This is also extremely apparent in the campaigning method almost exclusively used by all candidates today that consists of almost exclusively demonizing your opponent.
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