6ftstick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 4:15 pmYou're so full of revisionist History BS. The republic was formed and the electoral college created to be sure ALL states would have an equal voice in the federal government. Small states and large states. You first have to assume all the founding fathers were evil bastards to buy your racist BS.jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:01 pmOh please. Where were you or Thomas Jefferson when we changed how the position of Vice President was filled? Or Senators for that matter?
The electoral college only exists because we began this nation as a part slave holding enterprise. 3/5 of a person and the electoral college exist because the south's slave holders required it to join the union.
The Proslavery Origins of the Electoral College.
I think they were great men who created a government never seen before the planet. You see them as evil racist mysogynist greedy bastards.
They mostly were all racists, but standard for their time. Some less than others. Only one side of the debate made it about slaves, the south. A population outnumbered by their slaves, and economy which depended on it and did not want to change that for the sake of union. Those in the north, not holding slaves, but not feeling particularly sanguine about the concept, but not feeling the issue should keep them from union decided to kick the can down the road. Evil bastards is your terminology, not mine. My terminology would be 18th century white men.