THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC FEATURES OF THE CONSTITUTION are baked into it and have been from the beginning. And I'm not talking about the Venezuelan Constitution which, UNLIKE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION was the product of a referendum, not based on the certainly less democratic process required for its adoption by the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution of Venezuela was written by an assembly which was voted into that body by the popular vote and the Constitution they came up with was approved by 72% of the voters in that election in 1999. I don't know of any other Constitution in the Americas that is the product of such a democratic process, certainly not the rigged writing and adoption of the U.S. Constitution which started with the unauthorized creation of a new government and its "adoption" in which a very small percentage of even the Protestant, white men of property allowed to vote in the majority of relevant elections actually voted in them. Even the Supreme Court god John Marshall admitted that it was an iffy if not a dicey thing - that would be in his biography of Washington, not his from the bench blather about that which was blatantly false. More honest evaluations of the process in a decisive number of the several states notes that it was rigged to ensure that the heavily federalist urban vote would make it to the polls while the more skeptical rural vote would not be cast. History does have that ironic result a the history of America continued and the anti-democratic features baked into it in the 1780s increased to favor states without much of anything but rural votes often of the most benighted states and regions. Swamping many, many times over their population in the most populous states.
But getting on with things, in the 21st Century we have had two presidential election in which the actual loser of the election became president under the anti-democratic Electoral College which is baked into the Constitution. Trump in 2016 and far more tellingly George W. Bush in 2000.
Let's concentrate on 2000. You may remember that the question of who would win the electoral college hinged on the vote in Florida, a state run by the brother of the "winner" Jeb Bush who was governor whose Secretary of State, the infamously sleazy and arguably corrupt Katherine Harris, and lower down officials rigged the election in numerous ways, including a campaign to exclude Black Voters from voting lists and roadblocks to hamper voting in communities with large Black populations. And that's not getting to the infamous "butterfly ballot" which was clearly intended to confuse voters who wanted to vote for Al Gore.
That election was ultimately decided by a five to four vote in favor of the Republican, George W. Bush, (Oh, I've fogotten to mention that in addition to being Jeb's brother he was, of course, the son of George H. W. Bush who, as mentioned here on Sunday had to pardon his way out of being prosecuted for his crimes while vice president and president) . . . George W. Bush was installed as president by five Republican "justices" on the U.S. Supreme Court including Sandra Day O'Connor who had wanted to retire but only if a Republican would name her replacement. That was so corrupt that two of those "justices" who voted against that decision were, themselves, Republicans Stevens and Souter who, to his credit, had been named to the court by daddy Bush.
And there are the numerous other corruptions of elections baked into the Constitution or placed there by a combination of anti-democratic (these days literally anti-Democratic) politicians and judges and, especially "justices." The Roberts Court has been doing everything it dares to to bring us back to the days of 5/5ths of Black representation being in the hands of white supremacists in especially the Southern but hardly only the Southern states. Back to the status quo of Jim Crow that started with the Electoral College and corrupt deal that put Rutherford Hayes in the presidency after he made a deal with the Confederate losers of the Civil War to end Reconstruction.
As for the 2016 election a large role in Trump's eking out an "Electoral College victory" was played by the Republican head of the FBI (as well as the NYT) when he broke Department of "Justice" policy by making announcements of a new round of "investigations" of Hillary Clinton days before the election. I will note in passing that Hillary Clinton has to stand as both the most investigated human being in American history as well as the most exonerated person, perhaps in human history. Instead of her, the actual winner of the election, the genius of our framers gave us the most criminal and least punished politician in American history, as well as the stupidest and most vile one, Trump. For Trump to call Madurro illegitimate or corrupt is the final death of irony, only the American "free press" the supposed protector of democracy and even the republic letting him get away with that is actually the more massive of ironies.
It is forbidden here, in the so-called land of the free and home of the brave to mention that our Constitution has anti-democratic features galore baked into it and never removed by the process of amendment and some amendments to the thing to correct just some of those injustices which were overturned by UNELECTED SUPREME COURT FIAT. Again, that's not something that happened in the 1880s or the 1920s, that's something that is an ongoing program of the Roberts Court. It is forbidden to tell the truth about the corruption of our Constitution with the goddamned First Amendment in place - you're never going to hear it said this way on any corporate news venue or the goddamned New York Times and certainly not in the Bezos owned WaPo or the Soon-Shiong owned LA Times. Ken Burns won't tell you but I just did.
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