One of the things the Founders could not have forseen was how much a Black president and a female presidential candidate would inflame such a backlash. They moved in an unexamined and barely noticed world of white male supremacy like fish swim in the sea. How could they have forseen how such changes would so inflame passions as to make t…
One of the things the Founders could not have forseen was how much a Black president and a female presidential candidate would inflame such a backlash. They moved in an unexamined and barely noticed world of white male supremacy like fish swim in the sea. How could they have forseen how such changes would so inflame passions as to make the overthrow of the Constitution that they had created, and which had empowered those changes, so appealing that Americans would call upon a criminal psychopath to restore what they considered the rightful order of the Universe? Indeed, had the possibility that their Constitution would eventually allow the elevation of women and people of African or Asian descent to equality with white males even crossed their minds, they would have likely abandoned the enterprise as a bad idea.
Agree, and it’s an interesting thought exercise. As well as their inability to imagine a Black president and female VP, is the impossibility that they could have imagined the internet, and reality TV entertainment. That’s when I suspect they might have given up, out of mental fatigue.
Given that a number of the Constitutional Convention delegates owned black slaves, I'm not sure any Constitution they agreed upon would have looked the same .
One of the things the Founders could not have forseen was how much a Black president and a female presidential candidate would inflame such a backlash. They moved in an unexamined and barely noticed world of white male supremacy like fish swim in the sea. How could they have forseen how such changes would so inflame passions as to make the overthrow of the Constitution that they had created, and which had empowered those changes, so appealing that Americans would call upon a criminal psychopath to restore what they considered the rightful order of the Universe? Indeed, had the possibility that their Constitution would eventually allow the elevation of women and people of African or Asian descent to equality with white males even crossed their minds, they would have likely abandoned the enterprise as a bad idea.
Agree, and it’s an interesting thought exercise. As well as their inability to imagine a Black president and female VP, is the impossibility that they could have imagined the internet, and reality TV entertainment. That’s when I suspect they might have given up, out of mental fatigue.
So right. Then explain the social order, gay marriage and trans right and see how fast the founders would shut the ‘experiment’ down,
Not sure the founders would have abandoned it, but likely the Constitution wouldn't have been acceded to by many of the states.
Given that a number of the Constitutional Convention delegates owned black slaves, I'm not sure any Constitution they agreed upon would have looked the same .