If you found yourself transported to early 1788 Philadelphia, say about a year before the U.S. Constitution was signed, an if the Founding Fathers were all willing to hear you out, what would be some of the first things you’d say specifically to warn them and try to prevent some of the bad things that have happened in the real-world timeline since then? Basically, what differences would you want to see made to the U.S. Constitution from the beginning and how would you impress specifically on the Founding Fathers the necessity of diverging from their instincts in specifically those ways?

And keep in mind the Founding Fathers’ beliefs on things like slavery, “the free market”, guns, LGBTQIA+, etc.

  • Dogyote@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago
    1. The Senate is antidemocratic
    2. The electoral college is antidemocratic
    3. Slavery is wrong, stop that shit right now. Yes Jefferson, I’m looking at you, in the future we all know what you did, err, are doing.
    4. There will be over 300 million people in this country and their collective will is largely ignored by our “elected” representatives because gerrymandering has become a science. You don’t know what that is? Fine, just write down that elected representatives can’t draw their own districts. Seriously, that’s what they’re doing.
    5. Money is not speech, write that down. Doesn’t matter where. Yes really.
    6. Did I mention how undemocratic everything has become?
    7. Private health insurance is illegal. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what that is, write it down.
    8. Look at this gun. Anyone can purchase this. ANYONE-bang-CAN-bang-BUY-bang-THIS… bang.
    9. You know what? Here’s what we’re going to do. I tell you what to write and you do it, if not, I’ll shoot more than your ceiling. There’s 30 rounds in this thing and it takes me two seconds to reload. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs…”
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        Several of them were literally royalists that were opposed to the revolution until they realized it was too late to change public opinion. Particularly Ben Franklin