Say it with me now...Illegitimate Supreme Court. Illegitimate Supreme Court. Illegitimate Supreme Court. To those who offer the glib and trite reply that "the Founders didn't create a democracy" in the face of the fact that the 50 senators who voted for Kav don't represent a...
majority and that four members of the SCOTUS were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote, my response is this: 1) Everyone who follows politics knows that there is absolutely zero chance that Republicans would accept any of this if it were Democrats who won the...
electoral college twice in 16 years w/out the pop. vote; 2) the values of late-18th century elite white men, however intelligent they may have been on *some* issues, should not be the only determinative factor in how we decide things today; 3) there's no way the founders could...
have anticipated that California would have over 70 times the population as Wyoming. They also could not have anticipated that women would want the right the vote; that African Americans would want to be treated as humans; that an advanced economy required that paper money be...
legal tender and that humans could endanger the planet through climate change. We need to move beyond what the founders thought.
