Misslizard wrote:
And hence the flaws....
1. The Democrats don't approve of "democracy" either.
2. Trickle-down (while a BS idea sold to Regan so wealthy people could get what they want on the promise to "pay it forward), has some merit. If you enact policies that hurt those that create jobs and opportunities, you negatively affect economic growth and development. You have to help everyone...just not the needy. Best to create private sector jobs than just hand out welfare benefits.
3. The reason why only "white male property owners" could vote was very simple. The Founding Fathers felt the right to vote should only belong to those with skin in the game. Only land owners paid TAXES. Hence, anything Washington D.C. did would affect them and not everyone else. With the limited government the US was created with, there was nothing wrong with limiting the right to vote to taxpayers. That the cultural idiom of the time was that only "white males" could own land does not establish that the Founding Fathers intended the right to vote to be limited to "white males" and exclude others who became tax-paying landowners.
Indeed, why do you think they pass a Constitutional amendment subsequent and concurrent with the "income tax" amendment to make Congressional seats not subject to direct election subject to the popular vote? It was done to combat the famous, "No taxation without representation," which already existed as representation is in the House, not the Senate and the power of making the budget belongs to the House.