The election of 2012.

I get so sick when I hear people talk about how wise our founding fathers were and what a wonderful Constitution they wrote. Here are a few facts. The Founding fathers did not want a real democracy but wrote a constitution that protected the rights of wealthy land owners but did little for the rights of women, Blacks, and working people. In fact they went out of their way to make sure the right to vote was limited to as few Americans as possible.

The Electorate only had the power to elect members of the house for two year terms. Senators were appointed by the states.  The President was not elected, and is not today, by popular vote but the Electoral College. The Judicial branch of the Federal Government is also appointed. In effect we have very little control of our leaders. The 17th. Amendment did change the constitution to allow the majority to directly elect their Senators.

We had the first slave delivered to Virginia in 1605 and the Constitution allowed it to continue until the Civil war. President Andrew Johnson bent to pressure from Southern Democrats to withdraw Federal troops after the Civil War and this act put an end to reconstruction and again put the Black man under the thumb of White land owners.  Their rights were still denied for another 100 yrs.

The Federal Government allowed Jim Crow Laws to keep people in a kind of bondage, legally, even though the 13^th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865. Amendment 14, passed in 1868 was to guarantee Civil Rights to all Americans. Again it was ignored in the South.  Blacks were given the right to vote in the 15^th. Amendment in 1970 but poll taxes and other tricks still denied them their rights.  Finally in 1920 Amendment 19 allowed women the right to vote.

Amendment 24 eliminated poll taxes in 1962.  The Civil rights act passed to finally give Black people their rights. This Law had to be enforced though by federal troops .

As you can see the Constitution, as it was written, needed to be changed many times before it protected the rights of all Americans.  Today we see a push by the Republican Party to put barriers and obstacles in the way of minority voting using the pretext of voting fraud. As Americans we must remember our strength lies in our diversity and differences not in how many millionaires we have.

I have had very little to say about this Presidential race because important issues are not being addressed and the news media is covering slop and horseshit.  I actually have no comments on this silliness and just wish the imbecilic comments I read from other people can’t be serious. Can they?