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I believe the bolded has little to do with it.
Our founders were the wealthy, educated, elite. They put in a system to protect & profit themselves. They didn't allow women voting. They had slaves, and didn't allow the slaves to vote. They only allowed those who owned land, like themselves, to vote. Their government and voting apparatus was totally self-serving to themselves & their fellows. They even included the Electoral College, something that carries on to this day, as a tool to over-ride the voters if they didn't like what the People wanted. We see the continuation of this with the current rendition of the Republican Party, as the Electoral College is in essence the subject of this thread.
Look, our founders were (often) great men for their time. But their ideas were ideas of their time. And those ideas are no longer accepted by most, today. Luckily, the founders left us recourse to allow the Constitution to adapt with the times. As such, eventually we allowed non-landowners to vote, we outlawed slavery, allowed former slaves to vote, we allowed women to vote, etc., etc.
Now, I'm coming to believe we need to allow a more directly representative vote, putting an end to what the Republican Party is attempting to do to turn us back to this country's dark ages.
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Sure, I agree, and amendments to the C should get started.