I’ve been telling Hexbear to start quoting the founding fathers at libs. It’s a good bit and this video has a couple great lines.
A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the union, than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire state.
-Federalist Papers no. 10
In other words, in Maddison’s view, federalism is a protection against popular uprisings.
Gosh, this democracy thing must be pretty weak and non-functional if every two years it’s entirely under threat of collapse due to itself.
“Who’s killing liberal democracy?”
“All the people we elected via liberal democracy.”
I’ve been telling Hexbear to start quoting the founding fathers at libs.
Yes! tell a yankee in your life to read the federalist papers
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: