2016-05-10, 02:14 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote:Which makes the conditions they did put in very telling: The Founding Fathers trusted the people to not elect a traitor, but they didn't trust them to not elect a foreigner.
This certainly is telling, but their intent was probably to prevent the people from electing a foreign royal who would then take and never release power or some sort of long game espionage attempt. I really don't think it occurred to them that Americans might elect a known traitor. They were more worried about the unknown ones.
[MENTION=5658]xparasite9[/MENTION]; What does The Hungry Caterpillar have to do with anything? Is Trump turning into a butterfly?
I ran across this which just goes to show there's a relevant Heinlein quote for every situation:
Quote:“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”

